We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and SolidFire 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."I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"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."
"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 most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"Greater IOPS, speed, it's all-flash. So seeing that everything is going to all-flash, all SSDs, SolidFire fits right in there with the emerging trend in IT."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"It's a very good Windows-type solution. But we do a lot of legacy systems and the like. So it's getting that incorporated into it that would help us."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 192 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.4. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. SolidFire report.
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