We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"It's a very mature product."
"Virtualization platform that's easy to set up, and has good scalability and stability."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"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."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial."
"There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading virtualizing software solutions have this feature."
"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. I would like it to be simple. It is serving all of our needs, and I don't think it is necessary to keep adding. We are able to provision a VM in ten minutes, and provisioning it in five minutes will not have any added benefit."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Oracle VM is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE.
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