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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs Vblock [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructur...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
200
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (5th), HCI (2nd), Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (1st), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (5th)
Vblock [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

JD
Dsi at OFFICE PUBLIC DE L HABITAT DE ROUEN
Hyper-converged storage has improved performance and now supports high redundancy for our VMs
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) was transparent because we were on a regular infrastructure before. We went on NCI and were able to improve performance, but it did not really change how things worked. The performance was really better for applications and access times to the data. I regularly looked at the analytics to see what was going on in my servers and what it was saying to optimize performance. It was pretty interesting because it could analyze and give insights on how to get things working better. In the latest versions, the Prism interface has been replaced by Prism Central. This requires another machine to be deployed to manage the servers.
TS
Chief Consultant and Architect at Tahir Professional Services
Centrally-managed and stable, but the initial setup could be made simpler and technical support can be improved
There is a different platform and there are different interfaces for different parts of the product. Although there are some centralized components, you still manage each component using its own set of tools. There is definitely room for improvement in this regard. I would like to have a catalogue like menu where you simply define your end computing needs and the rest would be taken care of internally. The initial setup could be unified to make it simpler.

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Pros

"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"The main reason we decided to implement the Nutanix solution was the ease of use of the environment."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play, the deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy, and it makes it easy to apply."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"​It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications.​"
"​The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers​ performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Systems run solidly."
"This solution has rock-solid reliability."
"Legacy built architecture disappeared with VCE converged infrastructure, as only one person with transversal knowledge can achieve the Logical Configuration Survey, resulting in a strong and powerful infrastructure with nearly no downtime, and this is well known by the VCE technical support."
"We were able to achieve significant capital savings in our tech refresh capital projects due to implementing the Vblock solution in our environment."
 

Cons

"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Snapshot Management needs improvement."
"It would be nice to be able to converge the network switch required to connect the Nutanix nodes together."
"Frankly speaking, there are some issues."
"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."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"I think there needs to be more tools to monitor and manage the Vblock™ as a whole, instead of pieces."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"I would have given it a higher rating except for how the patching and updates are applied."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"Currently, there is some uncertainty about the future of the product line with regards to Dell's takeover of EMC."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process.​"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product is less expensive than some of the competing HCI solutions."
"Our Nutanix license is for five years. There is a support arrangement there, but that aspect is more or less taken care of during the initial installation. With HCI architecture, whenever we do any kind of auto scaling or scaling of servers and resources, there is a significant amount of software licensing involved."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's core licensing needs to have an upper limit since processors are coming out with incredible numbers of cores on them."
"The pricing is fair for the package."
"Our licensing fee on the total setup up was about R900 000."
"The cost of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is reasonable."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS price includes no additional costs for features."
"While cost may seem higher than your traditional 3-tier architecture, you need to look at the bigger picture. You're not just buying hardware here. You're buying a complete environment."
"Vblock appears from the first while to be very expensive. There are more items you cannot see in the BOQ: customer service, support, delivery short time, and highly experienced VCE engineers."
"The paid support for Vblock is expensive."
"I think the pricing is on the higher end of the spectrum. There could be some adjustments that could be made there. Regarding licensing, watch compatibility with external products that you run on Vblock. It has got to be properly architected, otherwise, you will run into licensing issues."
"It is not cheap."
"Vblock is priced at a premium because people don't want the headache of managing and deploying different products."
"Related to tech support: I believe it is too expensive."
"I would not say the pricing is not good value. It is still on the expensive side, near the top-end of cost compared to what's available now. Also, the licensing has to be improved. There has to be a clear definition of the licensing from the initial set-up so the customer knows what they are paying for, without being hit later on with extra licensing. The licensing definitions should be clearer and, perhaps, have one set of licenses rather than multiple licenses."
"Strive for a consolidated ELA."
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Comparison Review

it_user244362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Consultant with 51-200 employees
Aug 30, 2015
Nutanix vs. VMware EVO:RAIL vs. FlexPod
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Construction Company
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Manufacturing Company
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Outsourcing Company
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Also Known As

Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Acropolis
VCE Vblock
 

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St. Lukes Health System, the City of Seattle, Yahoo! Japan, Sligro, Empire Life, Hyundai AUS, and many others.
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