2023-04-26T02:16:00Z

Which solution performs better: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure or VMware vSAN?

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Avigayil Henderson - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-05-04T05:51:44Z
May 4, 2023

Hello Edwin, I am posting this answer on behalf of Daniel Wetter, one of PeerSpot's community members: "Hello, Edwin, first, it would be good to receive more information about your needs and concerns. Would you like to use existing local storage equipped with your Hypervisor servers, it seems you maybe already running on ESXi? Do you already earn fibre channel switches? How fast is your current network? Would you like to easily expand your storage environment? How fast should your storage perform, GB/s , IO/s , average response time / ms (ns)? .. and so on…. Maybe also other HCI Storage vendors like DataCore could gain additional efforts. What is your environment like? Do you need a kind of block storage or maybe you already got S3 aware/ready applications like SAP, document management systems, structured unstructured file services, big data files, databases…. All these topics and a lot more … were needed to give you a good for your special needs a related answer. With such a globalized question, you will earn/receive suggestions and opinions, but not an answer which fits your needs. Maybe my above little questionnaire will help you a little bit. Best regards Daniel"

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DD
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2023-05-03T05:12:47Z
May 3, 2023

Any HCI solution would be great and have pros and cons, depending on your use case, comfort level, IT support, and system integrator who would support the solution for your business need. This is similar to how we feel comfortable using Proxmox VE's built-in Ceph Software-Defined Storage to deploy HCI.

QJ
Real User
2023-05-02T12:24:33Z
May 2, 2023

Both can get you the performance you might want, however, you should also consider what else you get with the solution. For Nutanix, you're stuck on Acropolis if you start with that. It would be best to run either VMware or Hyper-V on top of that so migration isn't a gym show, plus the renewal cost will be very high.


vSAN is a fine option, just ensure it is designed well with enough nodes to tolerate any amount of disk failure.


Both options have their unique value but the most important thing is the data. You'll need data protection solutions like Veeam, Nakivo, or Zerto. 


For an all-in-one high-performance solution with built-in data protection consider HPE SimpliVity with VMware. You'll also likely buy fewer nodes than the others with SimpliVity.

Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-05-02T08:54:02Z
May 2, 2023

In the early days, Nutanix had the better solution, by now especially when you use a vSphere hypervisor I would go with vSAN for better integration and with ReadyNodes no complex config anymore. Also, I had several customers who complained that Nutanix got very expensive on the first renewal vs. massive initial discounts, however, I can't judge if that is true.

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