We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"Technical support is okay."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"The Dell VxRail solution is based on vSAN Ready Nodes, but the Dell VxRail is fully automated. It would be helpful if this automation feature could be added to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. For example, we need to install VMware ESXi, and manually expand the cluster."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"In terms of automation, I know there are ways to do it, but it's not very user-friendly. I've been working for the last three years with Nutanix and I've managed to automate certain things, but it's a somewhat more complex job than it should be. I would like to see more documentation or knowledge base articles."
"It already has the capability to integrate with the major cloud providers but, in an upcoming release, if there is a possibility to have it integrate with other cloud providers like IBM, Alibaba, and other moderate-level cloud providers, that would be good."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
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Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in HCI with 14 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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