We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are comparable and receive similar ratings in most categories. However, users feel that Proxmox VE is more affordable than Nutanix AHV.
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization is a private cloud platform offering integration with various public cloud providers. This integration allows for a multi-cloud approach. In my opinion, Nutanix AHV Virtualization's strength is its storage. It innovates and excels in the hyper-converged storage segment, making it the number one choice in this area."
"With AHV, you can run micro-segmentation, which is, on the network security level, to have network virtualization across clouds."
"The interface is very good, and quite user-friendly."
"Nutanix AHV is very scalable. It can go to unlimited nodes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the built-in data protection, that helps with backup in a matter of minutes."
"Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"If we want to move the virtual machine from one host to another, it's simple, straightforward, and stable."
"The solution is open source and free to use."
"Proxmox allows us to achieve affordable performance while keeping high levels of data protection and flexibility."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"The setup is very easy."
"I would like to see better decompression or degrouping of the VMs so that we can use a single number of SQLs with two servers. We don't need a huge number of DXSPs."
"It should focus on providing more detailed and helpful error messages. One area we'd like to see enhanced is better support for guest VMs, especially in a heterogeneous environment."
"The solution is very expensive."
"I haven't come across any limitations. Nutanix doesn't support externally attached storage through Fibre Channel. However, Nutanix doesn't support Fibre Channel connectivity. This, in my opinion, is a weakness of Nutanix. For instance, it does not support Cyber Talent. To clarify, you cannot connect external Fibre Channel storage or NAS storage resources with Nutanix. However, VMware vSAN supports such solutions."
"There are times when consultants, construction, or building firms need to use Beam but it can be difficult."
"Adding even more integrations would be an improvement."
"The software based controller has high consumption. This could be improved."
"A lot of tasks cannot be performed using the GUI, the graphical interface."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"The virtualization can be better."
"Since I face issues importing Windows OVA inside Proxmox VE, a clickable button should be added to select the OVA format and import it inside Proxmox VE."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"Proxmox VE needs improvement in cloud computing."
"It could have more security updates such as when a new threat is coming into market."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. Proxmox VE report.
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