We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Systems run solidly."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"This is a great product."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"I would like to see them utilize the spare storage that they use as a redundant space. I feel that now a lot of resources are wasted just for standby purposes because we are using data protection. Instead of utilizing those resources only when something happens, they can have an alternative so that we can utilize these resources all the time."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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