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.
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"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 features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"The low cost of this solution has also made a big difference in our budget, which has been very helpful."
"How quickly the StarWind solution replicates also gives us the confidence to know that in the event of catastrophic failure of any piece of hardware, we won't be far behind before things went wrong."
"Servers came pre-configured for our environment and as soon as they were in the rack, Starwind got them up and running."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"Being able to upgrade machines and software during business operations just by switching nodes has been a huge improvement. We"
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"Their service is top-notch and if a node goes down they immediately are following up with us to make sure that everything is working smoothly."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"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."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"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."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"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."
"It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind."
"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."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
"I honestly cannot think of anything else to be improved, as I rarely have to interact with the Starwind product."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"Updates need improvement."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 74 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 43 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 "Serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI". 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 VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VxRail, StorMagic SvSAN, VMware vSAN, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and Dell PowerFlex. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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