We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Tintri VMstore 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."The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The price was right."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"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."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"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."
"The compatibility and integration of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved. For example, we have a WAF application firewall and it does not work on this solution. Not all the OS's run on AOS. You need to have a newer version of an operating system if you want Nutanix to perfectly run all the different options."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"I think with the world soon becoming only SSD, possibly NVMe, and 3D Xpoint. It would make sense for Tintri to drop the hybrid array down the line."
"Their current replication is really just enough to "check the box" that they do replication. We'll probably implement Actifio, Zerto or EMC RecoverPoint for VMs for more critical data replication."
"On the software side, I suggest adding integration with backups software like CommVault Simpana or Veeam where these products can integrate with the array and trigger things like snapshots for backup, etc."
"I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"More cloud integration."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. 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 Tintri VMstore writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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