We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes 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."It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"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 has very good stability."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"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."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
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Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 21st in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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