We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VMware Software Defined Data Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"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."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"The feature set and the maturity of the product are most valuable."
"Using this solution will provide you with a lot of features for working with multiple VMware hosts."
"The VMware Software Defined Data Center Manager can be used to manage VMs across multiple platforms."
"The solution does not occupy much space."
"The most valuable feature is the strong support. Also, the H-Appliance feature that supports MPLS is very important to us."
"The most valuable features are server virtualization and network virtualization."
"Bare Metal Ethernet SAN "dramatically improved" performance, stability, and reliability of the VMware Healthcare Solution Architecture."
"It has good performance and flexibility."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"The main problem that we are facing with this solution is vSAN stability."
"The automation of the solution needs improvement. We should be able to automate some processes."
"We have some Intel machines and some AMD machines, are we cannot mix these within the same cluster."
"They are using vRealize Log Insight as the virtualized log platform, but this solution is not well developed and not yet ready to use for advanced optimization and troubleshooting."
"My main problem is that they are changing the interfaces frequently, and each interface is incompatible with the last one. So you have to be in constant learning mode."
"The solution needs performance optimization of the VMware IO technology."
"We would like to see more analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning capabilities in their products."
"There could be more insights for hyper-cloud solutions in terms of enhanced configuration."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 194 reviews while VMware Software Defined Data Center is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 29 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VMware Software Defined Data Center is rated 8.6. 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 VMware Software Defined Data Center writes " Stable and Scalable data solution with good customer service ". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas VMware Software Defined Data Center is most compared with Azure Stack. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. VMware Software Defined Data Center report.
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