I am just trying to get an idea on how good the Nutanix product is and is it really worth the price. I haven't gotten any official pricing from Nutanix yet, but based on some Google searches I found some reviews from last year about their 3000 series costing $144k with four nodes and probably around 10 TB of usable storage. I know you are really paying for their software, but figuring the appliance is around $32k for hardware, that leaves $112k. And figuring about 10 TB of usable storage, you are looking at over $10k per TB of storage which is pretty damn high especially for a VSAN type setup.
Unless the pricing I am seeing is outdated and possibly retail price and not what a SMB would really pay. Is their product really that good to justify the additional cost? I know they talk about the small footprint, and the performance of local storage. But our NetApp over 10Gb iSCSI works well and saving some cab space and electricity is not going to save us much money. Our average cost for NetApp storage ranging from SATA, SAS, to multi-tiered is $1,500 - 4,500 per TB which is significantly cheaper. Again, unless my pricing above from Google searches is way off.
I haven't looked into the EVO RAIL that much, but VSAN has always been a consideration which should cost even less than NetApp per TB.
So how do you really compare all of them? What makes Nutanix so much better and worth the high cost?
Unless the pricing I am seeing is outdated and possibly retail price and not what a SMB would really pay. Is their product really that good to justify the additional cost? I know they talk about the small footprint, and the performance of local storage. But our NetApp over 10Gb iSCSI works well and saving some cab space and electricity is not going to save us much money. Our average cost for NetApp storage ranging from SATA, SAS, to multi-tiered is $1,500 - 4,500 per TB which is significantly cheaper. Again, unless my pricing above from Google searches is way off.
I haven't looked into the EVO RAIL that much, but VSAN has always been a consideration which should cost even less than NetApp per TB.
So how do you really compare all of them? What makes Nutanix so much better and worth the high cost?