We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"It has been stable so far."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"They offer top-tier support."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The cost of the solution is too expensive. There are other options, such as VMware, that are offered for less money. In Latin America, it seems to be overpriced for the market."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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