We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment and service and support. If pricing is a factor, Nutanix AHV had a better rating. Regarding features, Nutanix AHV users felt there were software compatibility limitations, whereas VMware vSphere users felt the solution wasn’t so user-friendly.
"It is a stable solution. I haven't faced stability issues in the solution."
"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."
"The dashboard of the solution is one of its strongest points."
"The interface is very good, and quite user-friendly."
"It's user-friendly."
"The initial setup of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is straightforward."
"Integration is the most valuable feature of the product."
"The storage features and volume system are great."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see support for containerization."
"There is no web interface for AHV."
"A lot of tasks cannot be performed using the GUI, the graphical interface."
"Nutanix misses alerts sometimes."
"There is no web interface with AHV."
"Adding even more integrations would be an improvement."
"My storage use is doubled; if I am creating a one TB virtual machine then my storage policy will take two TB from my cluster."
"The solution could improve the call logging system to HPE, it is a bit tedious."
"the HTML version of things needs to get a little bit better. The vSphere side of things gets a little difficult to manage; right-click, in some browsers, doesn't work as well as it used to. I'm seeing a little bit of general latency that we didn't used to get with the thick client, although it's getting there."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"The solution could be more stable."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 48 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. 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 VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. VMware vSphere report.
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