We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"It is a stable product."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"The stability is rock solid."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."
"It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"Its database management features could be better."
"I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Oracle VM is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE.
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