We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"Management is simple"
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"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."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"As Nutanix Acropolis AOS is on the expensive side, one of its areas for improvement is the price. It would also be better if it can be integrated with other cloud providers, because currently, it's only for private cloud deployment."
"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 which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to be then subverted as a parallel execution. What happens then is that I have to work in two different environments within my data center. Practically, they are two different data centers but physically and logically, they are one. If they cannot talk to each other that creates a lot of issues. That is something which Nutanix has to develop because for Nutanix it is very simple. For example, Oracle is using a function called GoldenGate. They have a feature called GoldenGate which allows them to talk to various different environments which must really help."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
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Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex.
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