We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are comparable and receive similar ratings in most categories. However, users feel that Proxmox VE is more affordable than Nutanix AHV.
"The entirety of the infrastructure resides in the same product, which makes it easy to troubleshoot and investigate problems."
"It's user-friendly."
"Nutanix AHV works really well. It's much easier to administer and manage than VMware. Since we're not a large IT department within the finance sector, our team is relatively small. We don't have a huge team of IT professionals to manage all the other systems."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization has good performance and can be used for backup and disaster."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization is a private cloud platform offering integration with various public cloud providers. This integration allows for a multi-cloud approach. In my opinion, Nutanix AHV Virtualization's strength is its storage. It innovates and excels in the hyper-converged storage segment, making it the number one choice in this area."
"It is the simple non-consideration we get with this product that's great. It just works."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV is that it can be managed through Hyper-V, which is Microsoft's hypervisor, VMware, and Citrix XenServer."
"The most valuable part of Nutanix is its centralized management of everything."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"Proxmox VE has many containers. You need to download the image and do basic configuration, after which it is operational within a few minutes. The solution provides many containers that are light in use and don't use a lot of memory. You don't have to spend a lot of resources."
"We can access the product from iPhone 7. It is stable and easy."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"Proxmox is free, very stable, and doesn't require more resources for memory RAM. It's fine for a small data center."
"The solution is stable."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"There are some issues with the interface and integration."
"It would be better if the solution's replication to another site could be efficiently optimized."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see support for containerization."
"There is room for improvement in the USB mapping."
"A lot of tasks cannot be performed using the GUI, the graphical interface."
"The software based controller has high consumption. This could be improved."
"To face no complications in our company, we had to switch off virtual machines one after the other before heading to Nutanix platform and going to edge services to switch off and turn off everything, making it a challenging process for me."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"Backup and recovery could be better. It's a bit problematic. If you're not well-versed with Linux, it tends to be a bit of a challenge when setting up and recovering. It's not really GUI-based, and if you're not a good Linux user, it becomes a bit difficult. In the next release, I would like to have something like Hyper-V's Data Protection Manager, where you could do an offsite backup and keep a copy. I haven't seen that incorporated yet, but I'm sure they will do that."
"Proxmox VE needs improvement in cloud computing."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. Proxmox VE report.
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