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 fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"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."
"It's been a stable solution."
"The solution is stable."
"Proxmox is free, very stable, and doesn't require more resources for memory RAM. It's fine for a small data center."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"We can access the product from iPhone 7. It is stable and easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is backups."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"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."
"In terms of automation, I know there are ways to do it, but it's not very user-friendly. I've been working for the last three years with Nutanix and I've managed to automate certain things, but it's a somewhat more complex job than it should be. I would like to see more documentation or knowledge base articles."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"We did have some integration issues."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"Its user interface can be improved. In the version that I am using, not all functions can be performed by using the UI. There can be some improvement on that. I'm assuming that it has already been improved in the latest version."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
"Proxmox VE needs to make a deal with Veeam. I was also unable to make version upgrades. I have also encountered backup problems."
"The initial setup has a pretty steep learning curve."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"The scalability could be better."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
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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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and oVirt.
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