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."You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"The stability is rock solid."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"It is a stable product."
"If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private network. The security is set."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"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."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"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."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading virtualizing software solutions have this feature."
"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. I would like it to be simple. It is serving all of our needs, and I don't think it is necessary to keep adding. We are able to provision a VM in ten minutes, and provisioning it in five minutes will not have any added benefit."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
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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 VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE.
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