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Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S5000 vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Huawei Symantec OceanSpace ...
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
9.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) (8th)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructur...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
199
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (4th), HCI (2nd), Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (1st), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S5000 is designed for Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 1.0% compared to last year.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), on the other hand, focuses on HCI, holds 9.0% mindshare, down 9.6% since last year.
Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S50001.8%
HPE 3PAR StoreServ14.2%
IBM FlashSystem11.1%
Other72.9%
Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)
HCI Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)9.0%
VxRail9.4%
VMware vSAN7.8%
Other73.8%
HCI
 

Featured Reviews

Juan Marcelo Santana De Alvez - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Enhanced security management with seamless access control for large enterprise needs
We sell it as a document management solution for government spaces, specifically in the judiciary or 'tribunal justice' in Brazil. It's used in an enterprise level setting with over five hundred thousand employees Our organization sees improvements in security management, as the product includes…
JD
Dsi at OFFICE PUBLIC DE L HABITAT DE ROUEN
Hyper-converged storage has improved performance and now supports high redundancy for our VMs
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) was transparent because we were on a regular infrastructure before. We went on NCI and were able to improve performance, but it did not really change how things worked. The performance was really better for applications and access times to the data. I regularly looked at the analytics to see what was going on in my servers and what it was saying to optimize performance. It was pretty interesting because it could analyze and give insights on how to get things working better. In the latest versions, the Prism interface has been replaced by Prism Central. This requires another machine to be deployed to manage the servers.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product includes features like Zero Trust and seamless integration with LDAP and Active Directory, which allows us to manage user access efficiently."
"The performance is great and the pricing is very reasonable, which is why we like it and why we would recommend it to others."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"One of the nicest features was the migration tool, being able to take any application and migrate it over even while it was in use, and then cut it over without any downtime was very helpful."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
 

Cons

"The entry-level product has limitations on the number of disks and enclosures."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"Pricing transparency: Software and hardware should be separate items."
"A fantastic product that could spend a bit more time in QA between releases."
"I would like to see asynchronous replication in less than 60 minutes, or even in 15 minutes."
"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."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"It is a CentOS-based operating system, but CentOS releases security patches almost every week or every other week. However, Nutanix releases their upgrade at three or four month intervals."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Pricing varies greatly between license and editions."
"This product is less expensive than some of the competing HCI solutions."
"The software only licensing model is priced normally, but the licensing model that comes with hardware is priced very high. You can choose to pay the license yearly, or you can pay every three years, or every five years."
"I think it's cheaper than VMware in terms of cost."
"It's a cost-effective solution"
"AHV is free! This is a great feature that should be taken advantage of."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure’s pricing is very good and competitive."
"The initial cost is affordable but the renewal fees are high."
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Comparison Review

it_user244362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Consultant with 51-200 employees
Aug 30, 2015
Nutanix vs. VMware EVO:RAIL vs. FlexPod
Originally posted at www.storagegaga.com/dont-get-too-drunk-on-hyper-converged/ I hate the fact that I am bursting the big bubble brewing about Hyper Convergence (HC). I urge all to look past the hot air and hype frenzy that are going on, because in the end, the HC platforms have to be aligned…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business93
Midsize Enterprise76
Large Enterprise88
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S5000?
The entry-level product has limitations on the number of disks and enclosures. Increasing these would benefit entry-level customers.
What is your primary use case for Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S5000?
We sell it as a document management solution for government spaces, specifically in the judiciary or 'tribunal justice' in Brazil. It's used in an enterprise level setting with over five hundred th...
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What makes Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) worth using?
NCI is a product with many tools and services but the one that, in my opinion, makes it better than similar products and worth using, is the full-stack lifecycle management. This capacity allows u...
Have you received reliable help from Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's support when you contacted them?
NCI is one of the best out there. For any software, no matter how good it is, technical support makes it or breaks it for me. You may have an amazing product but if there is not anyone to help you ...
 

Also Known As

OceanSpace S5000
Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Acropolis
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

First Hospital of Lanzhou University (FHLU), Chinas Ministry Of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), University of Lªbeck, Shenzhen Media Group (SZMG), China Central Television (CCTV)
St. Lukes Health System, the City of Seattle, Yahoo! Japan, Sligro, Empire Life, Hyundai AUS, and many others.
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