We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"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."
"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."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The product is easy to manage."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"It's very user-friendly."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"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."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"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."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"The only issue I have with Proxmox VE is updating it. You have to manually update it or you have to have a way to update it automatically."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"Backup and recovery could be better. It's a bit problematic. If you're not well-versed with Linux, it tends to be a bit of a challenge when setting up and recovering. It's not really GUI-based, and if you're not a good Linux user, it becomes a bit difficult. In the next release, I would like to have something like Hyper-V's Data Protection Manager, where you could do an offsite backup and keep a copy. I haven't seen that incorporated yet, but I'm sure they will do that."
"Since I face issues importing Windows OVA inside Proxmox VE, a clickable button should be added to select the OVA format and import it inside Proxmox VE."
"The scalability could be better."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and ISPsystem VMmanager.
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