We performed a comparison between Nutanix Unified Storage and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"The Nutanix block files are the most valuable feature."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade is user-friendly. It's replication feature is great because it has active replication and active DR. That's the beauty of the product. It's a perfect solution for block storage."
"What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware. Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
"It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."
"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"It is challenging to configure access control settings."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
"The interface could be improved."
"The current hardware is not as dense as it could be. In our deployment, we have 2 PB per site, and we have to have 24 nodes. That's a lot of cabling and network ports that we use up. More dense nodes would be better."
"What's missing in Nutanix Files Storage is the support for multiple intranets or VLANs on the same file from different networks and network devices."
"The solution is expensive."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"The speed could be improved."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Amazon S3, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Nutanix Unified Storage vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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