We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"Reliable, with comprehensive features and a well-established support base."
"It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"We are happy with the service in general. The only thing would be the price of the platform."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"The setup process could be improved. We had some issues regarding configuration and the time it took to do things. It wasn't specifically the people we worked with, but more the process and how it's done. They can work on that."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"Make it easier to manage."
"The latency needs improvement"
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 46 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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