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"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"The interface is very good. Before we used this solution, we had separate storage and switches, but with the hyper convert, it's all in one."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"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."
"It's been a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"It is easy to deploy."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"The virtualization is good."
"The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable."
"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."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"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."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"I feel like the flow chart and the automated processes have some room for improvement. They're nearly there, and the rest is fine. They've improved a lot over the past few years."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"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 documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"It is a good solution, but it is very complicated in some ways. It is not easy. You must have experience in the console mode to do some configurations. A lot of documentation and YouTube videos are available that you can use to learn about it."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
"The management can be better. It's not like VMware where you can get all clusters on a single dashboard. In VMware, you can literally see all the VMs running in one cluster regardless of the host."
"Proxmox VE can improve the management of virtual discs. For example, if my virtual disc is 200 GB and I want to decrease it is not easy. I have to do a lot of things to decrease the size of existing virtual machines. If the Proxmox VE team can make it easy for customers to instantly increase or decrease the virtual machine hard disc, it will be very helpful for me. However, the containers I can do it easily."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 80 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 24 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Feature rich, good compatibility, and impressive fuctionality". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Sangfor HCI, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and ISPsystem VMmanager.
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