We performed a comparison between Nutanix Unified Storage and Portworx Enterprise 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."What I like most about Nutanix Files Storage is the way it makes copies of the data. The solution also has high availability, which is excellent. Another valuable feature of Nutanix Files Storage is self-service, so users won't have to depend on the IT team much."
"Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"We can utilize mixed storage block-sized objects and combine various databases within a unified interface."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"The most important point is the simplicity of the API integration. We can leverage the API integrations and connect our hybrid-cloud network environment with Nutanix's cloud storage."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"Managing other storage infrastructure on Nutanix Files Storage is an area for improvement. In particular, I want to add other forms of storage from different vendors not currently in Nutanix Files Storage, to the file server, for better management."
"It is challenging to configure access control settings."
"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"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."
"I would like to see the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That could definitely be a major breakthrough in providing a unified, seamless experience for end-users. It could reduce costs as well as human effort."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"The documentation could be better."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews while Portworx Enterprise is ranked 2nd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 6 reviews. Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0, while Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2. 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 Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo, whereas Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and Robin Cloud Native Storage for Kubernetes. See our Nutanix Unified Storage vs. Portworx Enterprise report.
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