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 Nutanix, Dell Technologies, VMware and others in HCI."The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"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."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"It's been a stable solution."
"It is easy to deploy."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"We are happy with Proxmox VE. We use it as part of a cluster."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"As Nutanix Acropolis AOS is on the expensive side, one of its areas for improvement is the price. It would also be better if it can be integrated with other cloud providers, because currently, it's only for private cloud deployment."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"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."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"Backup and recovery could be better. It's a bit problematic. If you're not well-versed with Linux, it tends to be a bit of a challenge when setting up and recovering. It's not really GUI-based, and if you're not a good Linux user, it becomes a bit difficult. In the next release, I would like to have something like Hyper-V's Data Protection Manager, where you could do an offsite backup and keep a copy. I haven't seen that incorporated yet, but I'm sure they will do that."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
"Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"The only issue I have with Proxmox VE is updating it. You have to manually update it or you have to have a way to update it automatically."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 74 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 18 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 "Serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI". 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 VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere and IBM PowerVM.
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