We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
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Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell XC Appliance is most compared with , whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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