We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best thing about this product is that it is user-friendly and intuitive."
"Azure Stack is a good product because it's flexible and easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature is IaaS."
"The stability is good. We haven't had any issues with the viability or scalability. It's been good so far."
"You can scale the solution if you need to."
"The most valuable feature is the OCR, which I use for reading PDFs."
"The solution is cheap and helps consolidate infrastructure to a converged space compatible with medium customers."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"There are some minor issues or bugs with it that I know are there."
"Our only issue with Azure Stack so far is that the networking is very closed. You need to have the extended LAN to connect the internal LAN to the Azure Stack. Any connection we have needs site-to-site VPN connectivity instead of an internal connection, so Azure Stack has room for improvement in the networking area."
"It's not stable as IBM solutions. It fully supports all the .NET solutions, but our main applications are based in Java. So in those cases, we've had some minor problems with Azure, but Microsoft always says that it can handle this stuff."
"There are limits to the bandwidth and sizing of the images."
"It should provide more core on the VM and support multi-scale units."
"If you look at the documentation set, there are rims and rims of it. You try to drive something from the console, and it's quite complex. It's not it's not easy and straightforward. You've gotta sit down and review it, look at the documentation, and work your way through it. It's not intuitive."
"It would be great if Azure Stack would enable VDI creation and positive and negative artificial intelligence."
"I would only recommend this solution to smaller organizations like ours because I cannot really speculate what big issues that the bigger organizations will face."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"Reduce its power consumption."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 60 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 194 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos and VMware Software Defined Data Center, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our Azure Stack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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