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."Azure Stack is like a hybrid model with a CI/CD pipeline. The IaaS and PaaS model works well with a hybrid type of connectivity."
"We have found the Kubernetes version is one of the key components which we are using heavily."
"Azure Stack is stable."
"Azure Stack is very stable."
"Azure Stack is a good product because it's flexible and easy to work with."
"The admin dashboard is the main feature of the solution."
"The most valuable features are the control and flexibility that we have, where we can build our own solutions from scratch."
"The most valuable feature is IaaS."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"Azure Stack could use some improvement when it comes to seamless support for disaster recovery scenarios of higher availability regarding multi-regions."
"From a security perspective, there are certain things which could be improved."
"Having more options and customization would be an improvement."
"Azure Stack needs to improve integrations."
"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."
"The fact that it is completely integrated into Azure, while positive, is also a downside."
"I would like to see better support for containers."
"PaaS is not ready because they are only offering MS SQL as a service, web applications as a service, and containers as a service."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"I'd like it to be more API-based."
"Nutanix should improve AHV to support migration VMs between clusters and storage containers. Migration between containers is possible, but it requires shutting down the VM. The procedure is long and there is no migration between clusters at all."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"The compatibility and integration of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved. For example, we have a WAF application firewall and it does not work on this solution. Not all the OS's run on AOS. You need to have a newer version of an operating system if you want Nutanix to perfectly run all the different options."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 56 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) and Google Anthos, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Azure Stack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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