We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"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."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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