We performed a comparison between Nutanix Unified Storage and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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 Volumes is a perfectly stable product."
"The life cycle managers of the PCMs are very impressive, and I like them. They make our lives easy when managing patches and security updates when they come in. A life cycle manager helps to consolidate different vendors."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"Overall, the solution has improved our system's performance. I was concerned about the physical-to-virtual conversion of our database server. It's actually much faster now, as a virtualized host on this Hyper-V cluster."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"The option to deploy a hyper-converged system without an expensive storage switch was a benefit."
"However, StarWind HCA won us over in two areas: price and support. We were actually able to install an all-flash StarWind HCA for less than other vendors' spinning rust solutions! We were able to roll five years of warranty and support into the purchase price and still save thousands of dollars upfront."
"This solution came preconfigured. All we needed to do was plug it in and move our VMs."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"The easy way everything can be configured and ready to run in less than a day is great."
"The most valuable aspect of StarWind is the all-in-one solution that they provide."
"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."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"Multi cluster support for their Command Console would be very beneficial. Currently, you can only work with a single cluster at a time. The console is new so I expect much growth in this area in the near future. The other area that could be improved is the tech support locale."
"One area for improvement of the solution is that I had to get Windows, which I really didn't want because of the extra maintenance or overhead, as well as viruses, etc. It's going to take time for them to get their Linux to that point. They already have Linux but it's not as mature and they don't really support it on HCAs. They have it for individuals who want to use it on their servers, but not on HCAs."
"The response time is usually several hours after the issue occurred."
"We have to pay for support, which is high-end support. That can be expensive, at least for us."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed."
"Shipping options should be explained in detail and offer more white glove delivery options even if it comes at an additional cost for some SMBs without docks."
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Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Nutanix Unified Storage vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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