We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray 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."The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The price was right."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"The interface is very good. Before we used this solution, we had separate storage and switches, but with the hyper convert, it's all in one."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"They require more media visibility."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore T7000. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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