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IBM System Storage DS5000 Series vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM System Storage DS5000 S...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) (10th)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructur...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
199
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (6th), HCI (4th), Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (3rd), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. IBM System Storage DS5000 Series is designed for Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) and holds a mindshare of 2.8%, up 2.2% 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 (%)
IBM System Storage DS5000 Series2.8%
HPE 3PAR StoreServ14.1%
IBM FlashSystem11.3%
Other71.8%
Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)
HCI Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)9.0%
VxRail9.3%
VMware vSAN7.8%
Other73.9%
HCI
 

Featured Reviews

Gustavo Rosello - PeerSpot reviewer
Technological Infrastructure Manager at Mercado Argentino de Valores S.A.
Provides solid hardware and ROI to users
Companies or groups of business units are growing fast. We have perhaps between four and five more people than what it was two years ago, so the systems are increasing, and now we are working with RPA in some of our processes for automation, especially wherever it is mandatory in the financial branch, like a common investment fund and the investment in action or where there are other products. Our market is directly related to small business. We are working with companies where data translation is needed or where invoices, specifically credit invoices, the negotiation of cheques, or a doc that shows receipt of money, which you can sell at a future date. We have a sub-warehouse that has a back office in the cloud to use all operations related to creditors so that the company can increase its share in the markets. I think that we may need something on-premises in the future. The trends indicate that users are returning to on-premises systems because of the high cost of public clouds. We are looking for a better data center. In Argentina, hardware costs are high, but now, it is a great investment. We are slowly planning to expand the tool. In the USA, when it comes to object-first devices, there is a cost of 48,000 USD for 128 TB, but in Argentina, the cost is 64,000 USD for 84 TB. In Argentina, we have a lot of taxes, and the government is in the process of reducing these taxes, but now we have a situation associated with our economy. Out of 100 companies, only two are seeking employees. We are waiting for the recovery of the economy, but everything here is expensive apart from the salaries.
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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

"You can easily virtualize and share the storage."
"The IBM System Storage DS5000 Series can be integrated into various platforms such as IBM, Intel, Linux, and others. It provides flexibility in integration wherever storage is required."
"The solution offers an excellent price-performance ratio, including SSDs and compression capabilities. This results in faster performance and potential space savings due to compression."
"The system would work well for the customer."
"The DS 5000 series never has any problems; it's extremely reliable."
"We have had a good experience with customer service and support."
"The most valuable feature is compression."
"The tool is very stable...The solution's scalability is very good."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"Nutanix was a very good business solution for our site; it's an expensive system, but it provides power savings in terms of the low costs for running it, and it was a good business investment."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"It has seamless expandability."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
 

Cons

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product should improve its support."
"IBM System Storage DS5000 is expensive when compared to other vendors."
"I don't like the storage now, as it is in the same data center. I want to separate the data center from the backup to another floor of the building or outside the building in a data center of another provider."
"IBM is not always as agile as other competitors when it is about cloud integration and user interfaces. They're not renewing themselves very often. They have been slow to evolve from the old GUI. The user interface should be improved, especially regarding performance analysis, which has always been a little bit weak as compared to other solutions. As a global solution, it lacks the feature for containing integration object storage. Even though they have now started to offer this feature, it is quite young and not as developed as some other vendors. There are also no mass possibilities at all. They have a lot of competition in the mid-range segment. They need to have a NAS gateway or something like that. It doesn't specifically need to be integrated into the controllers that are keys to the gateway."
"The product is very costly; very few can afford IBM System Storage DS5000 Series, and the renewal or maintenance of the solution is also expensive."
"The initial setup is hard."
"The solution is not flexible enough."
"The initial setup was a little difficult - I used Foundation VM to image the nodes, and it was difficult to use this feature."
"Cloud integration, automation and orchestration need improvement."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"Nutanix Cloud is not that helpful for us."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other."
"The price of the solution is high."
"Make it easier to manage."
"The solution has more features than required"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a competitively priced solution. The cost can vary depending on whether it is purchased from the hardware or the software departments."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Its price is fair. IBM is quite fair in price when you compare it with others. We also use Hitachi internally, and Hitachi is always a little bit more expensive. NetApp is also a bit more expensive. So, IBM has good positioning in terms of price."
"This product is priced well. The ratio between cost and productivity is very high and we're happy with it."
"The basic functionalities of the product are provided within the normal license, but users can opt for some optional features from IBM's licensing model."
"We mounted all the virtualization with less than 1,50,000 USD. We are negotiating to get the tool for 800,000,000 Argentine Pesos. The tool is expensive, but it is worth the money."
"Compared to other vendors, I think it's expensive."
"We renew our license on a yearly basis and have no costs in addition to the standard fee."
"The price of the solution is expensive. However, the price to performance is good. The cost for development and installation is very low."
"There are a lot of features included with Nutanix that cost a lot with other companies."
"The setup cost, pricing, and licensing are very competitive and TCO is very low compared to three-tier solutions."
"If a customer has been using VMware, the difference in pricing is lower. However, if they are looking to use the VMware, the price can be much higher depending on the license."
"This product is expensive, but they do have discounts. At one point, I saw that they were giving a 70% or 80% discount, which is a good thing, but maybe they should have a more realistic price and then a 5% to 10% discount."
"It is not cheap, but if you look at the return on investment and the total cost of ownership, it is worth the price."
"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."
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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
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business93
Midsize Enterprise76
Large Enterprise88
 

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Also Known As

System Storage DS5000 series
Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Acropolis
 

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