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."Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"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."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"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."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"The solution provides many controllers."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler."
"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."
"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."
"If they can add an integrated DLP feature, it would be great."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
"The graphical user interfaces could benefit from more attention to detail."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
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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