We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and SolidFire 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."StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The price was right."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"Ease of deployment"
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"Technical support is okay."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"The simplicity of it."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"Greater IOPS, speed, it's all-flash. So seeing that everything is going to all-flash, all SSDs, SolidFire fits right in there with the emerging trend in IT."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"SolidFire has seamless performance for the nodes and extensions. I also like the tool’s scalability. The product’s performance does not get affected when we scale either up or down. This is not the case with other products."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"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."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"The latency needs improvement"
"The price could be lower."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"In terms of automation, I know there are ways to do it, but it's not very user-friendly. I've been working for the last three years with Nutanix and I've managed to automate certain things, but it's a somewhat more complex job than it should be. I would like to see more documentation or knowledge base articles."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"They could make the mNode more user-friendly. Now you need to configure and add nodes by CLI and it’s not really easy to manage. If they created a web interface to do the management of the mNode, that would be great!."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
"The scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. SolidFire report.
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