We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"I like NCI's dashboard. If there are any infrastructure issues, we'll get alerts inside the dashboard. NCI provides a single platform for managing all of our databases. We are running SQL and Linux databases."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"There's a learning curve, especially for those coming from a Microsoft background. Setting it up and managing it can introduce some complexity."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"Nutanix should improve AHV to support migration VMs between clusters and storage containers. Migration between containers is possible, but it requires shutting down the VM. The procedure is long and there is no migration between clusters at all."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
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Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex.
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