We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Virtualize and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver."
"Migration from configurations where servers have storage provisioned from older SAN disk systems to newer storage systems is almost seamless using image mode migration techniques, with only a short outage of the servers."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"We acquire companies (and things), so we end up with odd hardware. We bring it behind the SVC and it allows us to migrate stuff off of it seamlessly. SVC can also cover up a host of defects of the underlying storage."
"It provides transparency, because of its advanced copy features."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"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."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"The only errors I find sometimes is the solution tells me I cannot operate it because a service has turned off, you can just go back to the VM, go to services, and turn back the services. However, this should improve."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"I'd like it to be more API-based."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 192 reviews. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "A highly scalable product that is relatively easy to use and set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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