We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"It is extremely stable."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"The price could be lower."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"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."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Hyper-V. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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