"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"The product is easy to manage."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"In the world of IT operations, there is a lot of noise. Traditionally, systems would generate a great deal of alerts, events, and notifications, often leading to the operator either a) not seeing critical alerts since they are lost in the noise or b) disregarding the alerts/events."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"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."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"Its price could be better."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 7th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 17 reviews while Nutanix Acropolis AOS is ranked 1st in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 71 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 7.8, while Nutanix Acropolis AOS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "An all-in-one option that is stable and offers good management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Acropolis AOS writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, FlexPod and Dell EMC PowerFlex, whereas Nutanix Acropolis AOS is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. Nutanix Acropolis AOS report.
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