We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"The initial setup was really straightforward. It was not complex. Deployment took one month, due to the data migration duration."
"The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"It's very easy to manage."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"The initial customer technical support was efficient and effective."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"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."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"One area for improvement is in the GUI, where host clusters are not properly dealt with. With Hypervisor host clusters, all hosts must see the same volumes in the same order. Using the concept of a “host-group” has been around (even with IBM) for many years, so why not with the V7000?"
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"In terms of automation, I know there are ways to do it, but it's not very user-friendly. I've been working for the last three years with Nutanix and I've managed to automate certain things, but it's a somewhat more complex job than it should be. I would like to see more documentation or knowledge base articles."
"I'd like it to be more API-based."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"Nutanix should improve AHV to support migration VMs between clusters and storage containers. Migration between containers is possible, but it requires shutting down the VM. The procedure is long and there is no migration between clusters at all."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"We did have some integration issues."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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