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."Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"Technical support is okay."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"Tintri VMstore is rock solid. We have not had a single issue with stability. It is also very low maintenance allowing us to concentrate on project work."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"I like Tintri's Global Admin feature and the solution's performance. It's incredibly fast storage, which was a significant upgrade for us when we deployed it seven years ago. The Tintri snapshots are brilliant and incredibly reliable."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"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."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"More cloud integration."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"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."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Tintri VMstore T7000 is ranked 15th 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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