We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"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 product is easy to manage."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"Management is simple"
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"The cost of the solution is too expensive. There are other options, such as VMware, that are offered for less money. In Latin America, it seems to be overpriced for the market."
"It already has the capability to integrate with the major cloud providers but, in an upcoming release, if there is a possibility to have it integrate with other cloud providers like IBM, Alibaba, and other moderate-level cloud providers, that would be good."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"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 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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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is ranked 8th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance writes "A stable unified storage system that enables quick access to data". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, IBM FlashSystem, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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