We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VMware Aria Automation 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."I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"The most valuable feature is, instead of doing the VMotion manually, we have automated everything with a script, using vRealize. That means I don't need to think about things like compatibility. The system will do everything for me and just give me a report."
"The preset policies and templates are useful. I would say that vRA is one of the best solutions we have. The CI/CD features also look helpful even though we aren't using them at the moment. We plan to get more involved and train our customers as much as possible."
"compare-to-competition; Citrix was on our short list. But over the last ten years, we have been a big VMware shop. We wanted to continue with VMware because we are confident that VMware can address any kind of problem situation, any challenges. But with Citrix, we didn't find that kind of credibility when we did solution testing, a PoC."
"It has definitely increased speed of VM deployment. When a normal server-request would come in, it might take anywhere from three to four days to deploy. Now, within 15 minutes, they can click and have something up and running."
"It allows some of the tenants to self-provision their machines, so they don't have to wait for us to create the machine for them."
"With the advent of the automation, we've been able to give DevOps the ability to spin up environments, give them lease times, and then have it automatically reclaim the environment."
"vRA is user-friendly. It has the same layout and walk-through GUI, similar to other VMware products."
"We also use it to pre-install the applications that the people selected when they ordered the machine, so they get a fully functional machine."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"Make it easier to manage."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"We did have some integration issues."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"I would like to see more automation, more ways to automate automation tasks."
"The product's features for hybrid cloud integration could be better."
"The initial setup was complex because we have a high availability cluster. Especially when it comes to upgrades, we have a lot of downtimes and problems. The upgrade experience has been painful."
"I would like to see more integration to do things like DR, from a court perspective. Today, for us, SRM doesn't scale because each of our customers has a local vCenter environment as well as the vCenter in our environment. So we can't get SRM to scale to the point to which we need. From an integration perspective, DR inside of that would be good."
"The stability is okay, but could be improved. We sometimes receive strange errors, which can only be solved with specialists."
"Automation or scripting should be simplified so that administrators who are not experts can have a better grasp of automation."
"It needs to be more dynamic with variable customization to make new workloads more reliable. It also needs to be faster. We are exploring vRA version 8 right now and maybe what I'm requesting is available in the new version, but we haven't yet explored it fully."
"I don't find it to be entirely user-friendly. There are a lot of complicated menus within menus within menus. Things move around from version to version."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. 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 VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. VMware Aria Automation report.
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