We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"This solution is very scalable."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The solution is very reliable."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"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."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"Make it easier to manage."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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