We performed a comparison between KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Proxmox, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."It offers a high-availability environment."
"The most valuable feature is hypervisor. I can host at the same time different operating systems in Linux Windows."
"I have found KVM to be scalable."
"KVM is stable."
"I like that it's easy to manage. It's also more powerful when it comes to security than others. That point of view is the one consideration. The other consideration is that it's cost-effective."
"The most helpful aspect of KVM is the fact that the interface is so minimal. It includes just what you need to set up the VMs and manage them, and it's very simple to do so."
"The product is really good...One can get good performance because of kernel-based virtualization."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"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."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"Technical support is okay."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"The main drawback in the solution is probably disaster recovery."
"The speed is around thirty percent slower than another competitor. This would be something to work on."
"I have previously used VMware and KVM is easier to use. However, they both have their strengths depending on their use cases. They are mostly equal. One of VMware's advantages is it has better support."
"Technical support could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an improved user interface and dashboard. This type of improvement will make it easy or help our engineers understand the solution from a requirement point of view."
"We are not getting good support from KVM, and it is not that user-friendly."
"One problem I have is that it's not very scalable when it comes to resizing the VM disk dimensions. For example, if you have initially set a virtual drive to 10 GB and you want to upgrade it to 15 GB, it's not that easy."
"KVM is very difficult to manage and run on daily operations."
"Monitoring and resolution could be improved."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"I feel like the flow chart and the automated processes have some room for improvement. They're nearly there, and the rest is fine. They've improved a lot over the past few years."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"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."
"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."
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KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 12 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 80 reviews. KVM is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Reduces OpEx and is easy to maintain, along with low memory usage and a minimal interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware Workstation and Odin Virtuozzo Containers, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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