We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Scale Computing HC3 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."The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"The solution is scalable."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"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."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"This is a great product."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 74 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 20th in HCI with 5 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "Serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scale Computing HC3 writes "Fast with excellent stability and fantastic technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and KVM, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Sangfor HCI, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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