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."It's quite easy to manage."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"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."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"They offer top-tier support."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private network. The security is set."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"The most valuable features of Oracle VM are live migration and snapshots."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"The latency needs improvement"
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"Its database management features could be better."
"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. I would like it to be simple. It is serving all of our needs, and I don't think it is necessary to keep adding. We are able to provision a VM in ten minutes, and provisioning it in five minutes will not have any added benefit."
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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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