We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"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."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"It helps simplify our storage, because the user interface is very simple and the installation is easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"An area for improvement in Pure Storage FlashBlade is its price. It could be reduced. The technical support for Pure Storage FlashBlade also needs improvement. It used to be good, with more experienced engineers. Nowadays, it isn't, and it takes longer for support to solve problems."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
"In the realm of micro-services, I think that Pure Storage can do well if they start getting in there and making their arrays more micro-services ready."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The solution is expensive."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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