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What Is Nutanix
Appliance?

Nutanix Appliance is a hyper-converged hardware platform that includes virtualization, networking, storage, and cross-hypervisor app mobility. It’s a complete solution that delivers any infrastructure service, aiming for an image of an all-in-one remedy. Nutanix HCI platforms let companies focus on their applications and their business value rather than infrastructure micromanagement. However, the set of features, capacity, and scalability, as well as licensing may prove too costly for ROBO & Edge businesses. StarWind HCI Appliance proves to be a more flexible and efficient alternative in this regard.

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What Is StarWind HCI Appliance?

StarWind HCI Appliance is a turnkey HCI solution that’s integrated and virtualized through an OEM or StarWind-branded server platform. The software-centric architecture skyrockets your applications’ performance, providing constant uptime. Thanks to the convenient licensing package, StarWind does the configuration, deployment, migration, and monitoring for you.

StarWind HCI Appliance has been developed to optimize all of the dimensions of a business’ IT activities. It merges compute, storage, and networking in a single block. By eliminating the problems of complicated licensing, hidden feature games, and HCLs, the solution enhances business agility. You receive a dramatic perf boost via a 2-node hardware footprint which leaves room for flexible budgeting and company growth.

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Nutanix Appliance
vs. StarWind HCI Appliance

Nutanix Appliance

  • Form Factor 1U-Rack / 2U-Rack / Third-Party Servers
  • Licensing Perpetual license only: per-Node;
    per-TB + per-Core
  • Storage Varies per edition: SSD-HDD;
    SSD-HDD-SED; All-SSD
  • Hardware
    Compatibility Lists     Nutanix hardware licensing is bound to vendor-specified metal and cannot be reused within other hardware appliances
  • Hypervisor
    Compatibility     Nutanix Acropolis OS and Hypervisor, ESXi, Hyper-V
  • Feature Tiers and
    Restrictions     More desirable features (e.g. Encryption, Erasure Coding) require additional purchasing
  • Deployment and
    Support     More desirable features (e.g. Encryption, Erasure Coding) require additional purchasing
  • Flexibility Starter edition allows up to 12 nodes only, limitations on data replication resiliency per edition

StarWind HCI Appliance

  • 2U-Rack (No external hardware needed)
  • Perpetual or Subscription-based license:
    per-Node; per-TB
  • All-Flash; All-NVMe; All-HDD configs
    are supported for StarWind VSA
  • StarWind licensing is agnostic and has
    no hardware lock-in. It can be reused
    on any other hardware
  • Compatible with any hypervisor and OS
  • All features are available immediately, including
    minimalistic 2-node Fault Tolerance
  • Scalability is available up or out regardless of the type of proprietary components
  • Scalability is available up or out regardless of the type of proprietary components Scalability is available up or out regardless of the type of proprietary components

Nutanix Appliance

StarWind HCI Appliance

1U-Rack / 2U-Rack / Third-party Servers
2U-Rack (No external hardware needed)
Perpetual license only:
per-Node; per-TB + per-Core
Perpetual or Subscription-based license:
per-Node; per-TB
Varies per edition: SSD-HDD; SSD-HDD-SED;
All-SSD
All-Flash; All-NVMe; All-HDD configs
are supported for StarWind VSA
Nutanix hardware licensing is bound to vendor-specified metal and cannot be reused within other hardware appliances
StarWind licensing is agnostic and has
no hardware lock-in. It can be reused
on any other hardware
Nutanix Acropolis OS and Hypervisor, ESXi, Hyper-V
Compatible with any hypervisor and OS
More desirable features (e.g. Encryption, Erasure Coding) require additional purchasing
All features are available immediately, including
minimalistic 2-node Fault Tolerance
More desirable features (e.g. Encryption, Erasure Coding) require additional purchasing
Scalability is available up or out regardless of the type of proprietary components Scalability is available up or out regardless of the type of proprietary components
Starter edition allows up to 12 nodes only, limitations on data replication resiliency per edition
Scalability is available up or out regardless of the type of proprietary components
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StarWind HCI Appliance Cost Efficiency

  • Offers perpetual or subscription-based licensing
  • No license differentiation based on features and capacity
  • Removes the need to buy new proprietary components
  • Reduces TCO, CapEx, OpEx, increases customer ROI
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