We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), and ScaleIO [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."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."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"Management is simple"
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems"
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms."
"Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"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."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
"Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO."
"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
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