"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"Technical support is okay."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"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."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"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."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
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Nutanix Acropolis AOS is ranked 1st in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 76 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 30th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 1 review. Nutanix Acropolis AOS is rated 8.6, while VAST Data is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Acropolis AOS writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VAST Data writes "Good performance, easy to integrate, and the technical support is outstanding". Nutanix Acropolis AOS is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell EMC PowerStore and HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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