We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Tintri VMstore T7000 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 failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The price was right."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"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."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"Among the most valuable features are its granular replication, the ability to define asynchronous or synchronous replication, which gives us very definable RTOs and RPOs around that type of service, and granular quality-of-service configuration, which allows for cases where you've got multiple customers on a single Tintri, but you want to be able to offer strong quality-of-service metrics and KPIs."
"The Deduplication feature in VDI environments. If Tintri says we can host 3000 VMs in our storage, I know we can host 3000 VMs there. Believe the results."
"We love the real-time replication, ease of use when connecting our servers to the storage, and the level of redundancy inside the box... It's also simple software and integrates well with VMware so we get a lot of information about all of the VMs, how they're performing individually, and about network latency. That's very helpful when you're troubleshooting a slowdown."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"Nutanix should improve AHV to support migration VMs between clusters and storage containers. Migration between containers is possible, but it requires shutting down the VM. The procedure is long and there is no migration between clusters at all."
"On the software side, I suggest adding integration with backups software like CommVault Simpana or Veeam where these products can integrate with the array and trigger things like snapshots for backup, etc."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"I think with the world soon becoming only SSD, possibly NVMe, and 3D Xpoint. It would make sense for Tintri to drop the hybrid array down the line."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Tintri VMstore T7000 is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore T7000 is rated 9.4. 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 Tintri VMstore T7000 writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Tintri VMstore T7000 is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Tintri VMstore T7000 report.
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