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"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"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."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"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."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"One of the most valuable features is the One-Click Upgrade. When I need to update the system, I do it with one click. This product is amazing because everything is easy to manage, from network management to snapshots."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"They require more media visibility."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"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."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution."
"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."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 80 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 3 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and includes many features". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and VMware vSphere, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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