We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"All-flash is a game changer. If you need performance, simple operations, and you plan to use it with VMware, it is a good choice."
"The product has helpful local technical support."
"After migration to Unity 300F, we were able to put more DBs on flash, reducing latency. The results were visible in the front-end systems, and all users noticed the improvement."
"The valuable features of Unity include that it's flexible, has a friendly user-interface, and provides good performance."
"It's the simplicity part of it. It's the ease of management, it's the call home, the CloudIQ functionality. It's all built in. I think Dell EMC has put a lot of thought into it."
"I like that the performance is very good."
"Quick Snapshots and cloning are key features."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the unified storage. Also, its capabilities for block-access, file access, and the center box."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
"Technical support is okay."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"It needs to improve its price."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"The one thing that we would look at would be if they were to expand the file level features, just to give us a balance or a tier between it and Isilon options out there, for unstructured data."
"Dell EMC Unity's competitor, NetApp, has a similar product. However, it has a clustering technology where you can group multiple systems together, then you can move data from one system to another seamlessly. I would like the Unity to do that."
"Issues with slow responses from the support team."
"I would like to see a more seamless virtual box integration with the physical box which can replicate, because the setup of the replication is very difficult right now."
"The storage processors have less port expansion than previous high-end VNX arrays. Data compression is only available in all-flash pools."
"We integrated it with vSphere but that integration was "iffy". It was okay but we had a few challenges with it."
"Compression and block deduplication on non-all-flash solutions."
"The product’s pricing should be improved."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"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."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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