We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"It offers very useful data protection."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The solution is stable."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"The line migration is a problem."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 192 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. 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 Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Scale Computing HC3, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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