# AOS Distributed Storage Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about AOS Distributed Storage Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Data Center Management products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/148356/AOS --- # AOS Distributed Storage Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on August 24, 2025 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) AOS Distributed Storage ## What is AOS Distributed Storage? Comprehensive management solution built with one-click technologies to simplify datacenter storage and virtualization operations. ## What is AOS Distributed Storage used for? [Data Center Management](https://www.capterra.com/data-center-management-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 14 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for AOS Distributed Storage?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.nutanix.com/&name=AOS Distributed Storage) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### AOS Distributed Storage 4.7 (14) VS. [4.5 (274)](https://www.capterra.com/p/251336/ManageEngine-OpManager/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $95 Flat Rate, Per Year Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.4 (14) Ease Of Use 4.6 (174) Value For Money 4.5 (12) Value For Money 4.6 (143) Customer Service 4.6 (13) Customer Service 4.5 (173) ## AOS Distributed Storage alternatives [4.6 (255)](https://www.capterra.com/p/21581/PRTG-Network-Monitor/reviews/) Starting price $179.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 95% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.6 (367)](https://www.capterra.com/p/163343/Backup-and-Recovery/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 95% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.6 (36)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008506/ManageEngine-OpManager-Plus/#reviews) Starting price $1233.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 97% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [Sunbird DCIM](https://www.capterra.com/p/106991/Sunbird-DCIM/) [4.7 (174)](https://www.capterra.com/p/106991/Sunbird-DCIM/reviews/) Starting price $3.99 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 99% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/106991/Sunbird-DCIM/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/148356/AOS/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Capacity Management 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Monitor service demand and performance to plan for adequate resources that meet business needs Data Storage Management 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Manage and store data in a database Real-Time Monitoring 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks SSL Security 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access AOS Distributed Storage 4 features Monitor service demand and performance to plan for adequate resources that meet business needs Manage and store data in a database Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access Features 4.7 (14) 4.7 Based on 14 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.5 (12) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Value for money 4.5 (12) 4.5 Based on 12 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.6 (13) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.6 (13) 4.6 Based on 13 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.7 Based on 14 reviews Filter by rating 5(11) 4(2) 3(1) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent infant r. vmware / cloud administrator Media Production ### "High performance storage system" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 June 19, 2022 Overall for the cost we have paid for this software is worth, because comparitivly this is cheaper than it's competitors. 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. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Vineesh B. Server admin Automotive ### "Nutanix the wonderful monster" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 May 30, 2021 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. 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. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. KG Keny G. IT Specialist Food & Beverages ### "Excellent Virtualization Platform" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 January 10, 2020 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. Alternatives considered [vSphere](https://www.capterra.com/p/93512/VMware-Horizon/) Reasons for choosing AOS Distributed Storage We preferred Prism because some features like DRP are integrated. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. DO Dave O. Owner Computer Networking ### "A very viable alternative to 3-Tier Hosting" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 July 25, 2019 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. 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. Switched from [vSphere](https://www.capterra.com/p/93512/VMware-Horizon/) 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. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. OY orhangazi y. System Specialist Banking ### "Detailed analysis of your virtual environment!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 May 14, 2019 Pros It gives very detailed information about your virtual infrastructure. Cons I did not find any negative side so far actually. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. OG Omar G. IT Server Administrator Plastics ### "Great product for Managing your Virtual Environment" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 16, 2019 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. 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. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JR justin r. Information Security Administrator Hospitality ### "Nutanix, Function not lost with form" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 6, 2019 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. 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. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. IY Isaiah Y. Research Technician Research ### "Better than Excel!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 January 19, 2019 Pros The templates are perfectly set up for direct import of data from analysis software. Cons There is little to no room for aesthetic modifications. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. CP Caitlyn P. Private Lesson Teacher Education Management ### "A lifesaver!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 January 12, 2019 My husband and I both use Prism for our bill pay. It is friendly to use on both Apple and Samsung phones, splitting bills has never been easier. Since we started using Prism, we have never been late on paying a bill and have saved so much money not paying late fees! An absolute game changer for those of us who struggle with adulting! Pros Easy to use, helpful reminders, helps us stay on top of bills Cons There is nothing I didn’t like about this! Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Blake B. Information Technology Technician Food Production ### "Overall it is complex but does not take long for an IT person to catch on to the madness" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 August 1, 2018 Great analysis of virtualized environment and easy management of VMs. 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. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. 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