We performed a comparison between NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"The management software is very good."
"The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure."
"One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"It needs a better management tool."
"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"Its pricing should be better. Its price is competitive, but they need to improve the pricing. They have different licensing models, which they need to improve. My expectation was cloud integration, which they have, but it is a different license. Therefore, people cannot enjoy it. If I want to use it, I need to pay extra. There is a cost involved for everything, but it should reach everyone. It is similar to having a Rolls-Royce, but you need to pay extra for the key. If you want the key, you need to pay."
"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"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."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
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NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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