Nutanix vs VCE: Battle of the converged upstarts rages on

Which is better for VDI: Vblocks or Nutanix’s converged appliances? Nutanix has a test that it claims proves its own kit is best. Unsurprisingly, VCE strongly disputes this. Nutanix is currently on an anti-VCE drive which it has dubbed nixVblock, and which recently included a controversial campaign reportedly likening VBlock …

[unredeemed]

Oh yay, let's compare last years gear via a whitepaper and no hands on experience, to what I assume is current rev Nutanix hardware?

Why no comparison to VNX2, or even dare I say it ScaleIO? (I know, I know it's not part of VCE, but it's the closer storage platform to yours) Since it's VDI, you know EMC leads with XtremeIO right?

While you're at it, use actual hardware in a repeatable benchmark and not a whitepaper.

Lastly... is the cost of the hypervisor and support included into your TCO?

At the end of the day, find it impressive how startups are in terms of professionalism. I have two colleagues that work at Nutanix as SE's that are good people, that wouldn't stoop to this marketing rubbish.

[Nate Amsden]

Seems pretty reasonable to me if they are in fact taking what VCE says is needed to support such a workload and saying "this is how we run the same workload"

the burden is on VCE to come back and say HEY you can do it for a fraction with xtreme io if that is the case or some other config.

[markkulacz]

Publishing actual info on actual HW not possible

Unredeemed said - "While you're at it, use actual hardware in a repeatable benchmark and not a whitepaper."

Unfortunately, licensing agreements prevent the publishing of any performance or availability information on a product without written approval form the manufacturer. Most IT storage vendors have such policies in place these days, with EMC corporation being the first to defend their right to enforce this policy.

[I am an employee of NetApp, but my opinions and statements are my own and not my employer]

[Anonymous Coward]

Nutanix? Really?

There's a reason why Nutanix had to resort to sexist videos (which have since been pulled down) to draw attention to themselves: The technology is inferior to nearly every comparable solution in the market today.

[Trevor_Pott]

Re: Nutanix? Really?

Prove it.

[Etherealmind]

Not sure who looks more stupid in this spat. Nutanix acted like over-emotional teenagers to produce the campaign and VCE are notorious for highly bigoted stance on their technology.

In the meantime, HP and Cisco sell the same technology and aren't posturing like children in kindergarten.

[Anonymous Coward]

Independant VAR

The campaign is genius we are all discussing it rather emotionally in some cases aren't we and I suspect none of us are marketeers?. To be fair to VCE comparing it to Nutanix is not fair as it is an older convergence 1 non hyper-converged technology and this type of convergence is on the way out . It would therefore be fairer to compare as previously posted with ScaleIO or ExtremeIO.

[Anonymous Coward]

Desired Effect

The campaign is genius we are all discussing it rather emotionally in some cases and I suspect none of us are marketeers. To be fair to VCE it is never going to compare favourably to newer hyper-converged scale up/out technologies such as Nutanix. These type of convergence 1 technologies VCE, Flexpod etc will continue to decline and therefore I also agree it is worth comparing to ScaleIO or ExtremeIO