We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"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."
"Management is simple"
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"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 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."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"I feel like the flow chart and the automated processes have some room for improvement. They're nearly there, and the rest is fine. They've improved a lot over the past few years."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"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.
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