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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It's quite easy to install."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"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."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"Technical support is good."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox has a platform where the support team responds to frequently asked questions by its users. Every time I have had issues with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I always get a solution from Oracle's online platform or GitHub."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"I would like to see them utilize the spare storage that they use as a redundant space. I feel that now a lot of resources are wasted just for standby purposes because we are using data protection. Instead of utilizing those resources only when something happens, they can have an alternative so that we can utilize these resources all the time."
"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."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"The installation is difficult and could be improved."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"The solution lacks some open source remote administration tools. The reload of individual virtual machine definitions through the vboxweb service (via its API) without restarting it and the access to shared storage (to use teleport functions) need to be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd 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 Hyper-V, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V and Oracle VM.
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