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."The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"The management software is very good."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"Ease of deployment"
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."
"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."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"We did have some integration issues."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
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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 3rd 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 Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and VMware vSphere. See our NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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