AOS Distributed Storage 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

AOS Distributed Storage

4.7

(14)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About AOS Distributed Storage

AOS Distributed Storage is an application storage system that helps users keep data safe and resilient, optimize resource utilization and maximize performance. The software provides tools for accelerating applications with NVMe, co-locating data and applications, quality upkeep as well as capacity optimization and many other tools.

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AOS Distributed Storage Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

AOS Distributed Storage Features

Popular features found in Data Center Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Notifications
Capacity Management
Event Logs
Inventory Management
Power Management
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Uptime Reporting
More features of AOS Distributed Storage
Data Storage Management
SSL Security

AOS Distributed Storage User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

79%

14%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.7

infant r.

Verified reviewer

Media Production

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

High performance storage system

Overall for the cost we have paid for this software is worth, because comparitivly this is cheaper than it's competitors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

flexibility & scalability , high performance , resilency features are the most likable. The way how it shows to the hypervisor as a central storage but the data is stores locally so the response time is much faster.

Cons:

Few bugs like oplog issue & some others made this software to think it can be improved.

Dave O.

Verified reviewer

Computer Networking

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

A very viable alternative to 3-Tier Hosting

The ease of monitoring and maintaining your VM Environment has been greatly reduced with the use of Nutanix Prism. Whether you still use vmWare or thier built in product Acropolis to host VMs, if you can handle the price tag, it is well worth the investment.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It comes in a box ready to go. If you need to add capacity, you just add boxes. The software gives so many reports and options that someone in the vmware world would do a task and say to themselves "theres no way that is all I have to do to make that happen". But yes it is. So intuitive and clearly made by people who have to manage a VM Environment themselves.

Cons:

There was a major stumbling block rolling it out, sufice to say they keep several network subnets as built it and we were unlucky enough to use one of them. Support worked around it, but it was a major headache.

Reasons for switching to AOS Distributed Storage

The load balancing and failover features made it a no brainer. I used to manage CPU, Network, and storage - now with Nutanix Prism, it is all in one place.

Keny G.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Excellent Virtualization Platform

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Basically, what we really like about Nutanix is that we can make sure that our infrastructure is running in a high availability platform. Additional to that, we are able to upgrade VMs without an outage. Moreover, features like DRP are embedded

Cons:

Unfortunately, Nutanix by design is not supporting external devices like a Storage for Fiber channel.

Reasons for choosing AOS Distributed Storage

We preferred Prism because some features like DRP are integrated.

Eric W.

Verified reviewer

Oil & Energy

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Prism is the hypervisor and hardware management tool of the future

I have more time now to focus on important projects and company initiatives, rather than micro managing our virtual infrastructure.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Prism is feature rich and designed to be simple... and I mean really simple. Gone are the days of requiring extensive hypervisor management knowledge. One of many examples of how it outshines its competition is the ability to upgrade hosts during production without interruption or micromanaging moving VM's around.

Cons:

Its feature rich, but it has a ways to go to get to where some of its competitors are. It's getting there... their feature road map includes many of the advanced features you may be familiar with other products, such as DR failover planning, but they are not yet here today.

Vineesh B.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Nutanix the wonderful monster

Easy to use and work on the device which simplifies lots of work and helps to easy way to upgrade the AOS, AHV in a rolling fashion without any downtime for the user VM's. And Nutanix helps to remove all legacy hardware and consolidate all servers in a cluster with 2U of rack space.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The HCI is the best and pioneer in the market with its native AHV. It's a wonderful, simplified, converged device. Easy to use and understand and deploy very quickly. And the prism console give a simple GUI console to monitor the entire hardware infra of storage, network and compute as well as the Client VMs.

Cons:

Nothing to like the least. I like all features and its a wonderful beast with its AHV and AOS beauty.

Omar G.

Verified reviewer

Plastics

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Great product for Managing your Virtual Environment

PRISM has very complete data dashboards to have a better visualization of the cluster. PRISM helps you check the health status of the cluster with a click where it tells you the steps to follow to correct warnings or problems that arise. You also have access to the administration of virtual machines, hardware, alerts, as well as the network and backups. In general, it is a very complete tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very easy to have a global view of the virtual infrastructure, with dashboards that are constantly updated, in addition to being able to manage the entire virtual environment from a single console.

Cons:

Nutanix Is not compatible with versions of Windows Server 2003 or earlier that sometimes are used for older software, so we can't have them in Nutanix and they can't be monitored with PRISM.

Verified

Reviewer

Automotive

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Management through a Single console which also has redundancy

Ease of management and seamless upgrades

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of Use and the simplicity incorporates all major functionality from Hypervisor and VM management to Data protection with NearDR

Cons:

Few advance Features are not yet available through Prism console like VM Migration, Fault Tolerant VM, Physical-To-Virtual Migration, Etc.

justin r.

Hospitality

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Nutanix, Function not lost with form

The entire business has moved from a HPE solution to a Nutanix solution. The Prism interface is still easier to use then the rest of the competitors. Over all this software has been extremely reliable, and the support has been phenomenal.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nutanix Prism interface, has nearly everything you need to manage your storage cluster. It allows for monitoring, configuration and maintenance in such an easy way directly in the GUI. It is easier to use the the major competitors, while not losing any of its function. It is an extremely functional and well laid out interface.

Cons:

Of the mark, Prism can be abit daunting to the un-initiated. It is very forgiving but until you get practice with it some of the processes will seem as though they are missing or do not function properly, while in fact most of the time you will be looking in the wrong stop or using the wrong tool.

Blake B.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Overall it is complex but does not take long for an IT person to catch on to the madness

Great analysis of virtualized environment and easy management of VMs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The analysis is incredibly in depth and the management VMs and nodes is as easy as it needs to be. Going from VMware to this is a simple jump and the hardware makes it worth while.

Cons:

The alarms are a little goofy when you are have 2 different hypervisors. Licensing is also a bit goofy for specific environments.

orhangazi y.

Verified reviewer

Banking

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Detailed analysis of your virtual environment!