We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"The most valuable feature is the easy interface."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"The integration with Prism Central makes it a lot easier to manage, so we just have a single pane of glass location that we can go to. We do not have a separate admin console or anything that we have to use."
"The inclusion of it in the Nutanix Objects Storage platform simplifies my process as I am no longer required to acquire a separate platform. Instead, I can simply purchase additional licenses as needed. All management can be performed from a single unified interface, making it a convenient and streamlined experience."
"The most important point is the simplicity of the API integration. We can leverage the API integrations and connect our hybrid-cloud network environment with Nutanix's cloud storage."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"The cost of the solution is too expensive. There are other options, such as VMware, that are offered for less money. In Latin America, it seems to be overpriced for the market."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"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."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"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."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"Nutanix needs to improve their cybersecurity options at the storage level."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"The documentation on the support site needs to be improved."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. 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 Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Microsoft Azure Object Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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