We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray 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."It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"It has seamless expandability."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The scalability is good."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"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."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore T7000. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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