We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"I like NCI's dashboard. If there are any infrastructure issues, we'll get alerts inside the dashboard. NCI provides a single platform for managing all of our databases. We are running SQL and Linux databases."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"Make it easier to manage."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"The price could be lower."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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