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."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"On the Data Domain side, the most attractive feature is the compression ratio, which none of the other products in the market are currently able to provide. On the Unity side, what customers mostly like is the availability guarantee."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"Stable flash storage platform with good scalability, efficiency, and speed."
"The most valuable feature of Dell Unity XT is the GUI, it is very good. End users can manage using it. Additionally, the documentation is of high quality and it integrates well."
"The most valuable aspects of this solution are its stability, performance, and ease of updating."
"This solution is easy to work with and easy to maintain."
"The product has helpful local technical support."
"When I have an issue and need technical support, I reach out to them either through chat or by submitting a service request, and the response is good."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"It is expensive, and the pricing could be better."
"The price of Dell Unity XT could improve."
"They can certainly improve in terms of monitoring."
"Dell Unity XT could add a unit-to-unit replication. We haven't seen that because we don't have an additional one to test. However, it is not an improvement, but something that we would like to have visibility on how it's done or how it works."
"The solution should include a free process in the HPE portal that uses serial numbers to verify that hardware is genuine."
"This solution could be improved by offering containerization. This is something many of my customers are looking for."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the deduplication part, because for large deduplications, you need an extra appliance to do it in order to avoid having problems in performance. I think that could be improved, because everything should be included in the product, not with an appliance from the outside."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"As Nutanix Acropolis AOS is on the expensive side, one of its areas for improvement is the price. It would also be better if it can be integrated with other cloud providers, because currently, it's only for private cloud deployment."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 45 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 75 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 "Price / Quality ratio is good and since OE 5.03 code the array family reached a rather good maturity level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". 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 and VMware vSphere. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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