We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"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."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration."
"I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"Productivity in Oracle VM could still be improved, and an additional feature to make the product better is compatibility with Kubernetes and other modern technologies."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE.
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