We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"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."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"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."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"Management is simple"
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"The initial setup is straightforward once you know what you're doing."
"Reliability and overall uptime are key as we're also hosting client environments in addition to our own."
"The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."
"The pricing and discounts given by Starwind on the hardware were unmatched."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"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."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"We did have some integration issues."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"What would have to be done urgently is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration."
"The monitoring and report software is a bit hit and miss."
"This product is not one hundred percent enterprise-ready, so it is more suitable for SMB."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
"I would request that the terms and conditions be reviewed and made more acceptable to corporate security so that we could finally turn on the proactive support feature, as it is included with our support agreement."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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