We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The price was right."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"They offer top-tier support."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"The solution has good high availability."
"That the product is free and still has all the features you expect is a huge benefit."
"The solution is easy to install. It can run on a lot of different types of hardware. Creating virtual machines with it is really easy."
"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."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
"Currently, there are several features inaccessible through the API, necessitating the use of either the WebUI or the command line interface."
"The solution is not good at upgrading and this is why I using version 6.2 and not version 7. There is no easy way to implement the upgrade. I don't have enough experience to do it safely."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"The Windows drivers could be easier (unlike manually installing Ballon, QEMU and optionally SPICE, VIRTio, etc.)"
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and ISPsystem VMmanager.
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