"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"It has been stable so far."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"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 documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
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Nutanix Acropolis AOS is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 86 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 49 reviews. Nutanix Acropolis AOS is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix Acropolis AOS writes "Serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". Nutanix Acropolis AOS is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Nutanix Acropolis AOS vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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