We performed a comparison between Azure Stack HCI and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"In my hybrid cloud setup, there are three features I've found very efficient. The first is software-defined networking. Similar to Azure where you create virtual networks and software load balancing, Azure Stack HCI lets you configure them with a drag-and-drop experience on the on-premises cluster. That's one of the good feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to manage VMs."
"The solution has the latest processor."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"I like NCI's dashboard. If there are any infrastructure issues, we'll get alerts inside the dashboard. NCI provides a single platform for managing all of our databases. We are running SQL and Linux databases."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"We faced multiple problems with the product’s stability."
"The product's initial setup phase can be a bit complex, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement. Since I've been working very closely with this product, there are many areas, especially in software-defined networking. We had to improve multiple areas because we depended on the service fabric cluster to manage the software-defined network. That means we're already running a hypervisor inside a VM, and we're managing the control plane of the software-defined network. That's another cluster. So, multiple layers make the complexity more. So, from an operational perspective, it's very difficult to manage."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"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."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
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Azure Stack HCI is ranked 20th in HCI with 3 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Azure Stack HCI is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack HCI writes "Performs well, provides good features, and has the latest processor". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Azure Stack HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN and VxRail, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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