We performed a comparison between NetApp StorageGRID 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 implementation with NetApp went smoothly. It is a 'setup and forget' type of appliance."
"It has enabled us to save money on storage costs. We removed our tape library."
"The feature of StorageGRID that I find most valuable for ensuring data durability and protection is its Information Lifecycle Management functionality."
"Cost-effective and easy to deploy."
"StorageGRID is designed for cloud-based, highly scalable storage. Think big names like service providers like Google who need massive storage volumes with scalability. It also offers cloud-enabled storage capabilities with cloud management functionality. So, if you prioritize scalability and cloud integration, StorageGRID is the way to go. Its object-based storage is built specifically for that purpose."
"It helps automate our storage infrastructure."
"It has improved our operational efficiency through time consumption and logistics by 40 to 50 percent. Everything that had to do with our legacy tape solution has been improved and is now more efficient."
"Right now, we have an older StorageGRID. I like that we can grow it."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Files Storage is its high availability and ability to scale out with many VMs."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"What I like most about Nutanix Files Storage is the way it makes copies of the data. The solution also has high availability, which is excellent. Another valuable feature of Nutanix Files Storage is self-service, so users won't have to depend on the IT team much."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"There was a small amount of confusion when working with StorageGRID and Active Directory for access. We had to do things three to four times resulting in our engineer troubleshooting a couple of things. The location of the menu, along with what is inside the menu: configurations, settings, etc., is not straightforward to users. Most users are Windows-based. So, when make logical changes to the menu which are not similar to Windows, users and administrators get confused."
"Beyond the initial setup, this product is a little bit difficult to configure."
"We want to move towards Azure in the cloud. Right now, the system is all physical."
"One key improvement I'd like to see in StorageGRID is enhanced visibility for management purposes."
"The integration with more apps has room for improvement."
"I just recommend improving the marketing campaigns in Pakistan."
"Improvements need to be made in the support area."
"The redundancy and reliability are great, but I also see room for improvement there. I would like to see more efficiency in the storage and dedupe/compression solutions."
"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 only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"The current hardware is not as dense as it could be. In our deployment, we have 2 PB per site, and we have to have 24 nodes. That's a lot of cabling and network ports that we use up. More dense nodes would be better."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"The solution is very expensive."
"From a management side, the one thing I would prefer is if it were a bit less expensive for smaller enterprises. It's a bit costly. If they provided flexible modules where you could pick and choose features, and only pay for what you use, that would be an improvement."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
NetApp StorageGRID is ranked 8th in File and Object Storage with 11 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. NetApp StorageGRID is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of NetApp StorageGRID writes "Scalable object storage with robust data durability with efficient geo-distribution and comprehensive lifecycle management ensuring managing of large volumes of unstructured data". 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". NetApp StorageGRID is most compared with Dell ECS, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Scality RING and Quantum ActiveScale, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our NetApp StorageGRID vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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