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"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"It is a costly solution."
"User interface could be improved."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"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."
"It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
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