We performed a comparison between KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The KVM service is well managed with a central policy interface."
"The initial setup was simple."
"Our production servers are running in Linux, and this solution supports that environment well."
"What I like most about KVM is that it's very easy to use. Everything is built-in, even when writing command lines."
"I appreciate the network passcode feature in KVM, as it provides a convenient way to manage DNS and cloud hosting."
"The performance is great."
"It offers a high-availability environment."
"The tool's most valuable feature is backup. The product makes it easy to manage virtual machines. Other tools require third-party applications like VMware and vSphere. However, KVM doesn't require these applications."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"The main drawback in the solution is probably disaster recovery."
"Support for VF is needed, where you can, for example, export from VMware to KVM."
"Some things are pretty basic, and they could be more robust with more detail."
"In KVM, snapshots and cloning are areas where there could be a little more sophistication, like VMware."
"I have encountered difficulties in getting the tool's documentation."
"One thing that maybe could be improved is making it easier to scale. It needs to be more clear on how to scale the storage space for virtual machines."
"I have previously used VMware and KVM is easier to use. However, they both have their strengths depending on their use cases. They are mostly equal. One of VMware's advantages is it has better support."
"I believe KVM offers a unified answer, while ProxMark addresses orchestration. KVM lacks orchestration. If the aim is to centrally oversee multiple KVMs – let's say to freeze them – a centralized management solution is absent."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
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KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 39 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. KVM is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Delivers good performance because of kernel-based virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and Oracle Linux, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex.
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