"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"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."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"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."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"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."
Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review while Nutanix Acropolis AOS is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 92 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Acropolis AOS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "A great solution for fostering the natural expansion of the traditional hybrid culture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Acropolis AOS writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Nutanix Acropolis AOS is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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