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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"It has seamless expandability."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"Systems run solidly."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The documentation could be better."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The product could be improved with more security. The product needs a bit more experience in the market. I think you don't have the possibility to add other hardware. It could be improved with the ability to add and extend."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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