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 also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"One of the most valuable features is the One-Click Upgrade. When I need to update the system, I do it with one click. This product is amazing because everything is easy to manage, from network management to snapshots."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"It is a scalable solution."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"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."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
"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."
"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."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Its database management features could be better."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
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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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