We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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)."I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"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."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 192 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Maxta [EOL] writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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