We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pivot3 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 feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"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."
"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 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."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"The latency needs improvement"
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"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. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pivot3 report.
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