We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"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."
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
"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."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"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."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"The main thing Oracle can improve is the cost. It would be better if Oracle opened up the system to enable integration with other vendors. Whether it's the database, application server, or storage appliance, they should make it easy to integrate them. They need to open up more to ensure that it can work in any environment and IT ecosystem."
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