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We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Featured Review
Abdul Rehman Abid
Useful auto tiering, excellent support, and highly reliable
The Dell EqualLogic PS series has benefited our organization because it is scale-out SAN Storage. When my capacity increases, the solution does not... Read more →
Anonymous User
Researched Dell EqualLogic PS series but chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI): I can do hypervisor upgrades on all my hosts with a click of a button while in production. Site-to-site replication needs some work.
The simplicity Prism/AHV delivers over other hypervisor solutions has dramatically alleviated the workload of our IT department without taking away... Read more →
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Pros
"The product is very stable.""We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand.""It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution.""The solution has been working well overall.""​It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits.​""If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center.""Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."

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"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software.""I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable.""Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage.""The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent.""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.""The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features.""It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one.""Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."

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Cons
"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.""Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed.""There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device.""Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently.""The replication efficiency needs to be improved.""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.""The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble.""The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."

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"The licensing cost could be lower.""In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing.""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.""Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution.""There should be a little more access to Nutanix files.""I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure.""We did have some integration issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "All features are out of the box. The license will be in the virtual, OS, or application layer."
  • "​It is a fair price."
  • "Licensing is pretty straightforward."
  • "It seemed expensive at first, but the durability lowered the cost of ownership dramatically over time."
  • "Initial packages include all upgrades and services."
  • "There are annual maintenance costs beyond the original licensing period."
  • "I didn't buy it. It was another person seven years ago. So, I don't really know, but all storage platforms cost a lot of money. It is probably in the mid-range, but you get what you pay for."
  • "Dell EqualLogic PS series can improve its scale-out feature. Sometimes the customer has a limited budget for storage expansion. When they want to expand their capacity, they need to buy a complete controller plus storage capacity, which sometimes is out of their budget. If Dell EqualLogic PS series support could scale up the environment in which only hard drive extension controllers should be supported, then customers can expand within a lower budget."

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  • "Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment"
  • "The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses."
  • "I know Nutanix and VxRail have similar prices and licenses. Nutanix is a go-ahead if AHV is used as hypervisor because it is already embedded in the price."
  • "While cost may seem higher than your traditional 3-tier architecture, you need to look at the bigger picture. You're not just buying hardware here. You're buying a complete environment."
  • "Setup cost is minor, pricing is quite a bit (we have a 7-node-cluster for about 450K EUR with 2 vGPU-nodes for Citrix) but that includes hardware, software, and support."
  • "The price is good but I think there is still room for improvement on the price."
  • "Extra features should not be so expensive. We would love to be able to use or even just try some of the extra features without having to buy them. Buying those features is just as expensive as buying vSphere licenses, so the cost savings is nullified."
  • "Work close with your InfraTeam and discuss with Nutanix the best way to achieve sizing and price that are right for you."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Dell EqualLogic PS series?
    Top Answer:It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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    What needs improvement with Dell EqualLogic PS series?
    Top Answer:Regarding an area to improve, I would say that from Dell EqualLogic family, I can't buy Dell EqualLogic PS series. I can't buy any more solutions provided by EqualLogic, so the solution will have to… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Dell EqualLogic PS series?
    Top Answer:In my organization, we use the solution in our environment.
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    What is the biggest difference between Nutanix Acropolis and VMware vSphere?
    Top Answer:We found the reduced power consumption with Nutanix Acropolis AOS a very attractive feature. We also like the interface that allows you to talk directly to your VM from the present software. We found… more »
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    How do I choose between Cisco Hyperflex HX Series and Nutanix Acropolis AOS?
    Top Answer: Cisco HyperFlex HS series vs Nutanix Acropolis AOS Cisco HyperFlex gives extended hyper-convergence functions from core to edge and multi-cloud environments. It helps IT and OT teams deploy… more »
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    Which would you choose - Nutanix Acropolis AOS or VMware vSAN?
    Top Answer:We found the reduced power consumption with Nutanix Acropolis AOS a very attractive feature. We also like the interface that allows you to talk directly to your VM from the present software. We found… more »
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    Ranking
    7th
    out of 23 in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)
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    Reviews
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    Average Words per Review
    379
    Rating
    10.0
    2nd
    out of 40 in HCI
    Views
    25,470
    Comparisons
    9,754
    Reviews
    27
    Average Words per Review
    952
    Rating
    8.6
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    Also Known As
    EqualLogic PS series
    Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Acropolis
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    Nutanix
    Overview
    EqualLogic PS Series arrays bring a new level of performance to service more of your most demanding applications and virtualization requirements, while delivering the simplicity of the EqualLogic management experience. Featuring six array configurations, including 2U/2.5" drive options with All Flash and Hybrid Arrays, it is ideal for companies and organizations with growing data and performance needs.

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a top-ranking HCI software, cloud management tool, and Software Defined Storage (SDS) tool that is marketed as the foundation for users' hybrid clouds. It offers a powerful and secure hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver all data and applications at any scale and on any cloud. The solution offers a complete software stack that allows users to unify their hybrid cloud infrastructure. 

    NCI’s services include computer, storage and network, hypervisors and containers, and deployment in public or in private clouds. The product also comes with built-in resilience, disaster recovery capabilities, self-healing, and high-security capacities. It provides further deployment flexibility through several software and hardware options and platforms. NCI includes a full set of enterprise capabilities. It can also be deployed on a wide range of servers from popular manufacturers.

    The capabilities of the product are categorized into three main groups:

    • AOS storage
    • Flexible and open compute
    • Automated and secure networking

    Outside of these categories, NCI also offers other capabilities:

    • Integrated disaster recovery
    • Full-stack lifecycle management
    • VMware with Nutanix
    • Intelligent operations

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Features

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers its customers various features and tools in each of the previously mentioned categories. The available features for users currently include:

    • High-performance: This set of features utilizes hardware advances such as NVMe and RDMA to accelerate users' most demanding applications with consistent performance. The tools in this feature category work alongside data locality to ensure successful results.

    • Foolproof resiliency: These Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure features protect data and keep it available by facilitating advanced distributed consistency algorithms. Users can utilize these features to protect their data from issues like bit rot, hardware failures, and even entire site failure.

    • Flexibility: This set of features allows storage to be sized for the needs of each organization and expanded promptly and easily so that the organization and its data can grow. The features offer flexibility to users in terms of applying storage policies logically on a pre-workload basis, instead of being tied to hardware.

    • Hypervisor choice: Users can choose from the leading hypervisors - Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware ESXi. They can also leverage the built-in hypervisor AHV that Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) provides.

    • Integrated virtualization: These features offer simplified automation and AHV streamlined operations. The services in this category are optimized for high performance and reliability.

    • Kubernetes: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers features to build and deploy cloud-native applications on intelligent distributed infrastructure. Apps can be integrated with cloud-compatible storage and both building and deployment can be achieved within the same platform.

    • Microsegmentation: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers features to prevent malware spread and reduce attack surfaces by leveraging machine learning (ML).

    • Virtual networking: This set of features allows users to easily implement multi-tenancy in their environment or stretch networks across clouds.

    • Centralized network management: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) provides organizations with a way to manage networking configurations centrally. Users can utilize it across their human-computer interaction (HCI) environment with simple virtual switch management.

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Benefits

    The product offers various benefits to users who utilize its capacities. Some of these include:

    • NCI reduces technology sprawl and frees up technical resources to allow organizations to focus on other activities, potentially reducing costs for the business.

    • The product allows customers to deploy, scale, and bridge to the public cloud to be able to react in evolving business environments.

    • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure improves data availability while simultaneously protecting it against several kinds of failures and attacks.

    • The solution offers high-performance, resilient distributed storage for all workloads.

    • Working alongside Nutanix Cloud Platform, NCI offers simple management of data from one console.

    • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure works by the zero trust philosophy, protecting users' apps and data through specially designed security protocols.

    Reviews from Real Users

    According to Gerhard J., an IT manager at Q4 Fuel, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) provides serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI.

    A solutions architect at a computer software company describes NCI as a stable, straightforward to set up, and scalable solution.

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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Government44%
    Legal Firm11%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Real Estate/Law Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Educational Organization11%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Real Estate/Law Firm6%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization26%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Government6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business58%
    Midsize Enterprise5%
    Large Enterprise37%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise49%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise33%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 17 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell EqualLogic PS series writes "A highly scalable and astoundingly stable solution offering its users an extremely good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.

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