NetApp AFF A-Series vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NetApp AFF A-Series
Score 9.6 out of 10
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NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Nutanix 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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
NetApp AFF A-Series

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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Nutanix has met our requirements as well as our budget to implement the new solution to retire our old hardware and 3Par San.
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Features
NetApp AFF A-SeriesNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
NetApp AFF A-Series
9.4
6 Ratings
3% above category average
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
-
Ratings
Flash Array Performance9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration9.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Compression9.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades9.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Simplicity9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Power Savings9.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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StarWind HCA
StarWind HCA
Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray
Score 9.2 out of 10
StarWind HCA
StarWind HCA
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Dell VMAX
Dell VMAX
Score 9.7 out of 10
VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
NetApp AFF A-SeriesNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(7 ratings)
9.0
(72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Usability
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8.2
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
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8.6
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
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8.5
(51 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(54 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
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(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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5.2
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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5.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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5.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
NetApp AFF A-SeriesNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Likelihood to Recommend
NetApp
Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
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Nutanix
I would highly recommend using Nutanix HCI for any of your infrastructure needs. I would highly suggest saving money and using the free included AHV hypervisor. The performance is incredible, and the data reduction capabilities are on par with vSAN. I would only recommend using ESXi with Nutanix AOS if AHV does not yet support some one-off configurations or if you still want to use horizon while the frame is still growing.
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Pros
NetApp
  • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
  • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
  • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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Nutanix
  • One-click upgrades; whether it's hypervisor, firmware, disk or other updates. This feature has drastically decreased complexity and administration time.
  • Data Locality. Not all hyperconverged technology is created equal. When I first purchased Nutanix they were the only vendor (and as far as I know, still are) that made sure the storage a VM used was on the same host that VM was running on. Given a normal operating state, the [storage] network is literally only used for replication data.
  • They got rid of traditional RAID. Nutanix uses software to determine where a VM's storage should be written and replicated to. This dramatically decreases I/O when changing the number of nodes in a cluster, be it on purpose or during a failure scenario. Ex. adding a new node: If one uses RAID arrays then enough space has to be set aside to create a new array that includes the new node, then all the information has to be copied over, and the old array destroyed. RAID arrays do not grow and shrink gracefully so Nutanix has designed a better solution.
  • The Nutanix management interface was built on HTML5. No more flash headaches!
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Cons
NetApp
  • Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
  • Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
  • Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
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Nutanix
  • Can be priced high at times.
  • The one downside I have working with Nutanix is the sales team. They seem to try to add in extra goodies to sales quotes or push for extras that you don't really need and you have to tell them to take them out. Don't be afraid to push back on them.
  • Need to analyze sizing with sales team to ensure right sizing.
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Likelihood to Renew
NetApp
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Nutanix
AOS definitely make our dev/test virtual environment management much easier than before. And the consolidation the test/dev environment from Azure and Cisco UCS, we have less need to transfer large amount of data between different hardware platforms which was very big challenge. To expand the capacity is very easy to archive as well.
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Usability
NetApp
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Nutanix
The learning curve on it is very low and easy to use. It is very user friendly and easy to understand.
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Reliability and Availability
NetApp
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Nutanix
So far no issue on availability during no issue on network or power outage
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Performance
NetApp
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Nutanix
Nutanix AOS performance is light years ahead of HPE. We were nervous about using Nutanix AHV but it has been a vast improvement and saves on cost. Applications has been much improved and end users have commented. It has also freed up time for our Network Administrators and made their lives easier.
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Support Rating
NetApp
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Nutanix
Modernizing with HCI, which creates private cloud-like data centers, is, for many organizations, the first step in their digital transformation. Companies that have kept their eye on the long game and made decisions based on a fully-developed ROI analysis have found themselves uniquely positioned to make the critical operational changes the COVID-19 situation has demanded.
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In-Person Training
NetApp
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Nutanix
We requested more training than typical which was very in depth
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Online Training
NetApp
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Nutanix
A lot of online training courses, most of them are free.
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Implementation Rating
NetApp
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Nutanix
IPv6 is needed for link local discovery. We do not have IPv6 configured on our network so the easiest way to get our nodes configured and discovered by foundation was to configure the IPv4 addressing within the node prior to trying to discover with foundation.
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Alternatives Considered
NetApp
I have been an IBM and EMC storage customer. I used EMC CX and VMX series SANs. I have used IBM Shark SANs before that. Much has changed over the years. It is my experience that Netapp has shown a great deal more innovation with large leaps in technology, ease of use and an aggressive progress while the two other vendors that I have experience with are more tied to their legacy technologies.
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Nutanix
We've decided to go for both VxRail and Nutanix AOS to make sure we can get the best deals from both sides. I appreciate this may not be a path most companies can go down, but always good to have a bit of healthy competition between vendors to ensure you're getting the best pricing from both sides!
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Scalability
NetApp
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Nutanix
We have scaled our products over the years and continue to do so very easily.
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Return on Investment
NetApp
  • ROI has been tremendous as it has come in handy in all the scenarios we were looking at
  • Users and admins both happy with the overall performance and management is happy that they got a good deal from reseller.
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Nutanix
  • We save money with an all-inclusive pricing model and cut out of extra pieces we no longer need
  • The management of this product is minimal and save time and resources.
  • We found that the N+1 portion is working well but not identified well.
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