We performed a comparison between CloudStack and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It gives us the ability to manage and segregate a guest network with openvSwitch and VLAN IDs."
"It has become easy to deploy new devices with no or minimal hardware changes. Now, a user can be ready to use a firewall within a few minutes, as compared to the traditional physical model which involved purchase, shipping, hardware configuration, cabling, power, etc."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"We had a relevant reduction of bureaucracy tasks."
"I have been impressed by CloudStack's most recent updates around Kubernetes. In particular, they have worked with Kubernetes to support the Cluster API, and you can now easily integrate Kubernetes into CloudStack and get access to a lot of good features."
"I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network."
"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"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."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"The area of improvement could be the regionalization aspect. For example, managing multiple regions or HubStack deployments together was not thought out thoroughly in the versions I used. We faced issues around managing the global infrastructure and had to develop around it."
"The main reason why we started looking for another solution: backups, replication, HA, and dependency on secondary storage. CS is quite sensitive for infrastructure, and any kind of network disruption between CS and secondary storage leads to VM hanging."
"The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
"CS has very descriptive logging, and every time I faced issues and asked for help, I didn’t get any reply from the community. Reason? Its quite obvious. CS runs on specific environments, unique to each case. So, unless it is a functional issue of CS, nobody can help you. All issues were resolved by myself going through logs. This is another reason why you need smart enough people to manage it. Engineers must have knowledge of hypervisors and understand how CS interacts with them."
"It would be great to have a couple of “external” networks for VPC and have the possibility, for each domain, to choose they type of “external” network."
"Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up with public cloud in mind, not private."
"The Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init."
"There are some minor things that can be improved even more such as, perhaps, a bit more polishing on the GUI side to catch up with the API possibilities (which are really extensive) but otherwise nothing critical."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
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CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CloudStack writes "A solution that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, scalability, and stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Cloudify and VMware Aria Automation, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our CloudStack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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