We performed a comparison between Nutanix Unified Storage and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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."The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product."
"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."
"Nutanix Unified Storage does a very good job of unifying our organization's block, file, and object storage. It puts it all in one place. From one platform, we can deploy S3-type buckets. We can provide iSCSI-level block storage if we need to. It does a great job with home folders and departmental shares, which is what we mostly use Nutanix Unified Storage for."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."
"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."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"If they can add an integrated DLP feature, it would be great."
"The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler."
"The interface could be improved."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
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Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Nutanix Unified Storage vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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