We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and OpenNebula based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The price was right."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."
"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."
"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."
"The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."
"I also like the ability to build custom functions. I can define a function where I have two types of views and configure the dependencies. The virtual data centers concept allows me to define users. If a user wants to join certain kinds of machines, the host and the other user won't see them. It gives me the flexibility to define multiple views and data centers in one place."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."
"It is quite easy to deploy."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"The latency needs improvement"
"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."
"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."
"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."
"They have been saying for the past two and a half years that they would develop a feature to hot-add RAM and CPU, but it does not work."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
"It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet."
"An area for improvement in OpenNebula is the number of features it has. The solution doesn't have that many cloud features compared to other solutions. You'd say, "Okay, simplicity over a rich feature list?" Some say, "No, I need a big machine or a cloud interface for my customers to manage resources. I don't have to go and do it for them." Some people do it that way, and it works, but I'd like to improve the limited features in OpenNebula."
"They should add more features like object storage."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while OpenNebula is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while OpenNebula is rated 8.2. 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 OpenNebula writes "Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas OpenNebula is most compared with CloudStack, VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), vCloud Director and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. OpenNebula report.
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