We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"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."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"The redundancy of two identical nodes that can run alone allows us to have truly "no single point of failure" in our computing and primary storage infrastructure."
"Their support team is extremely helpful, and they are pretty friendly and knowledgeable."
"Having this all backed up by pro-active support gives us good peace of mind."
"The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"The added speed of using standard HDD and SSD meant we could increase what services are stored on the servers without having to have additional servers."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"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."
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"The response time is usually several hours after the issue occurred."
"Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"The only issues are when Hyper V itself has limitations and I'd love to see support or enhancement in the area of direct-attached GPU cards."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
"CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local."
"We struggle a little with capacity management with the StarWind Hyperconverged appliance."
"We have to pay for support, which is high-end support. That can be expensive, at least for us."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 80 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 40 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Flexible and easy to set up with excellent support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VxRail, StorMagic SvSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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