We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray 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."Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"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."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"Single-click upgrades are the most valuable feature. In the sector in which we work, it is tough to have downtime and arrange firmware upgrades."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The reliability is very good."
"The solution is very reliable."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The technical support is very good."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"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."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"Nutanix should improve AHV to support migration VMs between clusters and storage containers. Migration between containers is possible, but it requires shutting down the VM. The procedure is long and there is no migration between clusters at all."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore T7000. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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