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."The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"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."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"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."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
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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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