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Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"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."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"Pricing and varieties of options could 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."
"We did have some integration issues."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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