We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and OpenNebula based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It's quite easy to install."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"Management is simple"
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"It is quite easy to deploy."
"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."
"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."
"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."
"The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."
"I also like the ability to build custom functions. I can define a function where I have two types of views and configure the dependencies. The virtual data centers concept allows me to define users. If a user wants to join certain kinds of machines, the host and the other user won't see them. It gives me the flexibility to define multiple views and data centers in one place."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"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."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."
"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."
"They have been saying for the past two and a half years that they would develop a feature to hot-add RAM and CPU, but it does not work."
"An area for improvement in OpenNebula is the number of features it has. The solution doesn't have that many cloud features compared to other solutions. You'd say, "Okay, simplicity over a rich feature list?" Some say, "No, I need a big machine or a cloud interface for my customers to manage resources. I don't have to go and do it for them." Some people do it that way, and it works, but I'd like to improve the limited features in OpenNebula."
"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."
"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."
"Hosting platforms are limited so the deployment process needs improvement."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while OpenNebula is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while OpenNebula 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 OpenNebula writes "Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas OpenNebula is most compared with CloudStack, VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), vCloud Director and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. OpenNebula report.
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