We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are comparable and receive similar ratings in most categories. However, users feel that Proxmox VE is more affordable than Nutanix AHV.
"Nutanix AHV virtualization requires little disk size for a huge number of servers. We can do everything from a single dashboard, monitoring performance, and single-task boxes."
"The dashboard of the solution is one of its strongest points."
"You don't need any other instruments for control, AHV. You only need to look at the prism to control all infrastructure."
"The storage features and volume system are great."
"The entirety of the infrastructure resides in the same product, which makes it easy to troubleshoot and investigate problems."
"It is the simple non-consideration we get with this product that's great. It just works."
"Integration is the most valuable feature of the product."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV is the prism, it is a beneficial central management console."
"The solution is open source and free to use."
"We now have the ability to quickly build and deploy VM desktops for application testing with the snapshot ability to rollback, as required."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"We had issues with this solution when it comes to resources. We have officially created four to five PMs and it just continues to make more resources even though they are delivered in the main post mode."
"An improvement would be for Nutanix AHV to support VMDK, AOS, Hyper-V, and VMware."
"I would like to see more automation of Day One operations, such as DRS, and HA."
"The integration capabilities of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Nutanix’s support team is not very efficient compared to others."
"It worked well in the beginning but after using it for some time, we found some limitations in terms of compatibility with other software."
"To face no complications in our company, we had to switch off virtual machines one after the other before heading to Nutanix platform and going to edge services to switch off and turn off everything, making it a challenging process for me."
"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."
"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."
"The virtualization can be better."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"Some of the more advanced features and options required for setup still need to use the console and hand edit config files."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"We are using servers individually, and we are looking for a reliable application that allows us to hop between servers with high availability."
"The solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. Proxmox VE report.
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