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."When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"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."
"Technical support is okay."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"Less infrastructure required; simple to use."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"The solution has good high availability."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"Proxmox allows us to achieve affordable performance while keeping high levels of data protection and flexibility."
"We are happy with Proxmox VE. We use it as part of a cluster."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"It is a CentOS-based operating system, but CentOS releases security patches almost every week or every other week. However, Nutanix releases their upgrade at three or four month intervals. According to my organization's SLA, if a critical patch is released during that time, then I need to implement the patches within 30 days. If it is a standard patch, then I need to patch it within 60 days. Since that is my SLA, I cannot meet my SLA for security because Nutanix will not release the upgrade within these 30 days. Between the critical patch release and the Nutanix release, my customers say they are vulnerable and I am accepting the risk while the SLA is breached."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"The tool needs to add a lot of containers."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
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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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