We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"The template option allows us to build a desktop in a VM, then quickly deploy as a linked clone."
"One of the standout features of Proxmox VE is its meticulously crafted web user interface, which is not only highly efficient but also exceptionally clear and user-friendly."
"The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable."
"The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"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."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"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."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"Since I face issues importing Windows OVA inside Proxmox VE, a clickable button should be added to select the OVA format and import it inside Proxmox VE."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and ISPsystem VMmanager.
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