We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array 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."It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"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."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 16th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array 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 Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array report.
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