We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and OpenNebula based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."
"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."
"OpenNebula is lightweight, stable, and easy to customize."
"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."
"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."
"The solution provides templates for configurations that can easily be exchanged to VMs."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"They should add more features like object storage."
"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."
"It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet."
"The protocol for clusterization is rough and doesn't work well."
"The UI, monitoring, and alerting could benefit from further improvements."
"They have been saying for the past two and a half years that they would develop a feature to hot-add RAM and CPU, but it does not work."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while OpenNebula is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while OpenNebula is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenNebula writes "Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas OpenNebula is most compared with CloudStack, VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), vCloud Director and Morpheus. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. OpenNebula report.
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