We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It's user-friendly."
"The solution is user-friendly and provides good virtual machine backups. The user interface gets updated when there is a new release."
"The support is excellent."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"If we want to move the virtual machine from one host to another, it's simple, straightforward, and stable."
"The solution scales very well."
"For our markets here in Morocco, we are mainly working with server virtualization, and the most valuable feature is the software-defined storage and hyper-converged infrastructure."
"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."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"The scalability is great."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"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."
"The price of Nutanix AHV Virtualization could improve."
"A lot of tasks cannot be performed using the GUI, the graphical interface."
"If you want to install a specific operating system, you must first check to see if it is listed in the compatibility list; only then will you be able to install it, and that is one issue for now."
"The management console needs to improve to make it easier for administrators. For example, to be able to reorganize our VMs, folders, and subfolders, similarly as it is provided in VMware. We can sort, manage, and organize VMs, folders, or subfolders in VMware."
"An improvement would be for Nutanix AHV to support VMDK, AOS, Hyper-V, and VMware."
"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."
"VMware does tend to have more features than AHV. It's more of the leader in this space."
"There are times when consultants, construction, or building firms need to use Beam but it can be difficult."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"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."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
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Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 15 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 86 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 "Serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V and Oracle VM, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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