We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment and service and support. If pricing is a factor, Nutanix AHV had a better rating. Regarding features, Nutanix AHV users felt there were software compatibility limitations, whereas VMware vSphere users felt the solution wasn’t so user-friendly.
"This product stands out for its user-friendly interface, intuitive design, and responsive UI. It offers AVH features comparable to Nutanix but at a more cost-effective price point."
"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 interface is very good, and quite user-friendly."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization is a private cloud platform offering integration with various public cloud providers. This integration allows for a multi-cloud approach. In my opinion, Nutanix AHV Virtualization's strength is its storage. It innovates and excels in the hyper-converged storage segment, making it the number one choice in this area."
"The initial setup of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is straightforward."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the integration between storage and compute services."
"It has a vs switch for the people who know Linux, in case it's easier for them to use AHV than it is to use VMware."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"The most valuable features are its flexibility and the ability to move workload."
"Tech support is very knowledgeable."
"The solution has high availability."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"I would like to see more automation of Day One operations, such as DRS, and HA."
"VMware does tend to have more features than AHV. It's more of the leader in this space."
"I would like to see better decompression or degrouping of the VMs so that we can use a single number of SQLs with two servers. We don't need a huge number of DXSPs."
"It's not a very scalable product."
"They need to work on the deployment of virtual machines. They need to streamline the process of templates and deploying virtual machines."
"Lacks integration with the cloud or other solutions."
"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."
"My storage use is doubled; if I am creating a one TB virtual machine then my storage policy will take two TB from my cluster."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"The price is a big issue for us because the market is very competitive in our country, so we can't really push our VMware vSphere products because the customers will prefer to use something cheaper."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. 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 VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and RHEV. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. VMware vSphere report.
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