We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"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."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Its interface could be better."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"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."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"Make it easier to manage."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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