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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"In the world of IT operations, there is a lot of noise. Traditionally, systems would generate a great deal of alerts, events, and notifications, often leading to the operator either a) not seeing critical alerts since they are lost in the noise or b) disregarding the alerts/events."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"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 has seamless expandability."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"Proxmox VE has many containers. You need to download the image and do basic configuration, after which it is operational within a few minutes. The solution provides many containers that are light in use and don't use a lot of memory. You don't have to spend a lot of resources."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"The virtualization is good."
"We can access the product from iPhone 7. It is stable and easy."
"One of the standout features of Proxmox VE is its meticulously crafted web user interface, which is not only highly efficient but also exceptionally clear and user-friendly."
"The tool has very good performance."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"In terms of the IT different categories, I would like for the governing sections to be able to use it in the IT department. If they can have something like a one view management portal or software similar to VMware that would be an added value."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
"The solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"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."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd 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 HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and oVirt.
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