We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"Technical support is good."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"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."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"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."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"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."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"The solution is not flexible."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. 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 VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V and Oracle VM.
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