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 instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"It has seamless expandability."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"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."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"I would like it to have the ability to store data other than virtual machines. At the moment, you can only connect VMs to it, and that’s a bit disappointing."
"Speed of our VDI machines. We have a very high log in and log out ratio and machines are being refreshed instantly so we have a constant boot storm on our storage."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"The biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration... Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around."
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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 VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, 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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