We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO 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 deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"Speed and reliability:"
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The program is very stable."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
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Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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