We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV Virtualization 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."It is the simple non-consideration we get with this product that's great. It just works."
"In terms of features, Acropolis is a good virtualization manager and that it is on-premise. I use almost every technology they provide."
"You don't need any other instruments for control, AHV. You only need to look at the prism to control all infrastructure."
"If we want to move the virtual machine from one host to another, it's simple, straightforward, and stable."
"Integration is the most valuable feature of the product."
"The interface is very good, and quite user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is the user-friendly environment. The integration, implementation, and training for the solution are good."
"The initial setup of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is straightforward."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"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."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"There are times when consultants, construction, or building firms need to use Beam but it can be difficult."
"An improvement would be for Nutanix AHV to support VMDK, AOS, Hyper-V, and VMware."
"The integration capabilities of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"If you have the need for special hardware like FibreChannel-Cards or such and there is no networked-way around it (such as you could work with USB Dongles via an HW-Dongle-Server of network), you have to use a separate hypervisor."
"Adding even more integrations would be an improvement."
"There is no web interface for AHV."
"When we need to share, publish, or encrypt something, we still need to perform it using the command line."
"It worked well in the beginning but after using it for some time, we found some limitations in terms of compatibility with other software."
"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."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"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."
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Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V and KVM, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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