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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure vs. StarWind Virtual SAN

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ANutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.N/A

    StarWind Virtual SAN

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AStarWind Virtual SAN is software-defined storage for efficient storage and backup.N/A
    Pricing
    Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureStarWind Virtual SAN
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureStarWind Virtual SAN
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureStarWind Virtual SAN
    Considered Both Products
    Nutanix
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    StarWind
    Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
    I like that StarWind Virtual SAN allows for heterogeneous hardware and not tied to one specific platform like Nutanix. In other words, we can use Dell or HP, or any other name brand with the proper specs to meet the basic criteria for a proper StarWind Configuration with Fast …
    Incentivized
    Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
    StarWind Virtual SAN gave us all of the features we wanted at a price we couldn't walk away from. Other vendors offered some bells and whistles, but at the end of the day, they are effectively presenting the same thing: compute, storage, and networking in a hardware package …
    Incentivized
    Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
    Starwind VSAN is also as integrated as these other solutions but its cost point is ridiculously less to integrate. Also, Starwind VSAN literally configures your environment and helps you manage it. Also by extension, you have more flexibility in adding storage to the VSAN …
    Incentivized
    Chose StarWind Virtual SAN
    Other SAN vendors offer specific features that StarWind doesn't, such as more 3rd party integration (like backup and snapshotting) and nicer management and alerting, but between the huge premium they charge for those features (their "special sauce"), as well as usually …
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureStarWind Virtual SAN
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (75 ratings)
    9.9
    (144 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    8.6
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    9.7
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (54 ratings)
    9.4
    (120 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)