We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"The solution can scale."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use and has good performance."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"The solution is stable."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"The most valuable feature for me is the solution's availability."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"Management is simple"
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"I can't buy any more solutions provided by EqualLogic...Since I can't buy it anymore, I don't receive any updates on the solution. Also, this is the last year in which one can buy support for the solution."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"If I need to have more space or more capacity, I need to replace the product. It would be ideal if we could scale without replacing the box itself."
"The only challenging part in the tool was related to some site recovery area. In order to exploit the site recovery area, my company had to purchase additional VMware products."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"6510 and 6610 have two iSCSI connections in each controller. Why do 6110xxx members have only one, and why do the same members have the possibility of having an active iSCSI interface in the passive controller? It could make a lot of noise with a failover."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"HPE could improve by making an old flash system in order to compete with the current market. For the solution to be more competitive in the mid-range market they could increase the performance."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to be then subverted as a parallel execution. What happens then is that I have to work in two different environments within my data center. Practically, they are two different data centers but physically and logically, they are one. If they cannot talk to each other that creates a lot of issues. That is something which Nutanix has to develop because for Nutanix it is very simple. For example, Oracle is using a function called GoldenGate. They have a feature called GoldenGate which allows them to talk to various different environments which must really help."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"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."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
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