We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are comparable and receive similar ratings in most categories. However, users feel that Proxmox VE is more affordable than Nutanix AHV.
"The feature that has had the most impact is data locality. That is a feature that makes Nutanix different from other hypervisors. It helps us to get application performance that is probably double what we got with the legacy, three-tier architecture."
"Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"It has a vs switch for the people who know Linux, in case it's easier for them to use AHV than it is to use VMware."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"It's user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the built-in data protection, that helps with backup in a matter of minutes."
"The dashboard of the solution is one of its strongest points."
"The entirety of the infrastructure resides in the same product, which makes it easy to troubleshoot and investigate problems."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The solution has good high availability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"It is easy to deploy."
"The solution allows for easy integrations."
"We are happy with Proxmox VE. We use it as part of a cluster."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"When we need to share, publish, or encrypt something, we still need to perform it using the command line."
"Nutanix misses alerts sometimes."
"I would like to see better decompression or degrouping of the VMs so that we can use a single number of SQLs with two servers. We don't need a huge number of DXSPs."
"The solution can be pricey."
"I haven't come across any limitations. Nutanix doesn't support externally attached storage through Fibre Channel. However, Nutanix doesn't support Fibre Channel connectivity. This, in my opinion, is a weakness of Nutanix. For instance, it does not support Cyber Talent. To clarify, you cannot connect external Fibre Channel storage or NAS storage resources with Nutanix. However, VMware vSAN supports such solutions."
"The solution should work to improve its stability."
"An improvement would be for Nutanix AHV to support VMDK, AOS, Hyper-V, and VMware."
"The initial installation is complex. It took approximately four days."
"Proxmox VE needs to make a deal with Veeam. I was also unable to make version upgrades. I have also encountered backup problems."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"The Windows drivers could be easier (unlike manually installing Ballon, QEMU and optionally SPICE, VIRTio, etc.)"
"Since I face issues importing Windows OVA inside Proxmox VE, a clickable button should be added to select the OVA format and import it inside Proxmox VE."
"The virtualization can be better."
"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."
"We had some challenges with management including volume and storage management. Setting it up properly and making it work, specifically shared storage between the virtual machines, is difficult."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. Proxmox VE report.
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