We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV is the prism, it is a beneficial central management console."
"The solution is user-friendly and provides good virtual machine backups. The user interface gets updated when there is a new release."
"Nutanix AHV virtualization requires little disk size for a huge number of servers. We can do everything from a single dashboard, monitoring performance, and single-task boxes."
"The dashboard of the solution is one of its strongest points."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is the user-friendly environment. The integration, implementation, and training for the solution are good."
"The storage features and volume system are great."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization has good performance and can be used for backup and disaster."
"In terms of features, Acropolis is a good virtualization manager and that it is on-premise. I use almost every technology they provide."
"The stability is rock solid."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"It's quite stable."
"Virtualization platform that's easy to set up, and has good scalability and stability."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"Nutanix’s support team is not very efficient compared to others."
"The integration capabilities of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Honestly, there's a lot to work on the product, especially for someone like me who has worked on VMware. VMware offers a significant level of customization when configuring virtual machines, and that level of detail is not as pronounced on Nutanix AHV Virtualization."
"The solution can be pricey."
"The software based controller has high consumption. This could be improved."
"There are some issues with the interface and integration."
"Although AHV has many advantages, some drawbacks need to be mentioned. Compared to established hypervisors like VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V, AHV has a limited ecosystem and smaller community support."
"It's not a very scalable product."
"Its database management features could be better."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."
"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 performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 48 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM and XCP-ng virtualization platform, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. Oracle VM report.
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