We performed a comparison between MinIO and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The container installation features are good. The S3 feature provisions the storage buckets making it easy. It allows me to spin up the public buckets with open-source technology."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"We have been able to save local disk space by using Data Lens. We upload 18 GB to the cloud and are able to save 20% to 25%."
"I appreciate its storage licensing model, as it offers flexibility."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Files Storage is its high availability and ability to scale out with many VMs."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"Nutanix Unified Storage does a very good job of unifying our organization's block, file, and object storage. It puts it all in one place. From one platform, we can deploy S3-type buckets. We can provide iSCSI-level block storage if we need to. It does a great job with home folders and departmental shares, which is what we mostly use Nutanix Unified Storage for."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"There should be the ability to expand the size after it has already been deployed. Currently, you cannot do that. It doesn't support an increase in size. Each time we spawn a new MinIO, we need to track the particular MinIO instance or tenant that has the file. Therefore, we had to create a multi-tenant solution that tracks the MinIO that has our artifacts. It isn't in one single instance. It should have better multi-tenancy support."
"The developer support could be better."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"The Distributed User Interface (DUI) needs some work. It's hard to view a large set of data on the DUI. It's an issue with the DUI's performance."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"Nutanix needs to improve their cybersecurity options at the storage level."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
"The implementation is a little bit complex and should be made easier."
"The graphical user interface could provide more detail. It would be nice if we could click on the service and get some expanded definitions of them. When hiring new people, it's difficult to teach them how everything works, but if they can access everything, they can teach themselves."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Linode, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell ECS, Qumulo and VAST Data. See our MinIO vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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