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 has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"It's quite easy to manage."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"This is a great product."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"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."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."
"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"Its database management features could be better."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
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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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