We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and RHEV based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"We find the ease of use of this solution to be invaluable. It is user-friendly and integrates well with other software."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"Customers are moving to open source and Red Hat is the leader in this particular space. I think customers feel more confident running Red Hat Virtualization than VMware."
"It's a scalable solution."
"Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability."
"The most valuable features of RHEV are all the tools, such as virtualization, management of cloud platforms, and integration of container environments. The solution has good compatibility between virtualization, content management, and cloud management. Having the full set of these tools is the advantage of it."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."
"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"It would be better to have more patches, especially kernel-level updates, live and online so that we can keep the business up and running during this period."
"Red Hat by itself is not scalable. But you can have third party add-ons like Ceph to make it massively scalable."
"Configuring the network interfaces is much better in Ubuntu and should be improved."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
"When we do a direct comparison, then obviously VMware does better in terms of having Fault Tolerance and doing active disaster recovery and these kind of things. This is something that can be improved within Red Hat."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while RHEV is rated 7.6. 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 RHEV writes "Offers frameworks with well-documented API and easy to use". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas RHEV is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and Oracle VM.
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