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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"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."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"It has been stable so far."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"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."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"I'd like it to be more API-based."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with .
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