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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"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."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"The solution is very stable."
"I like that Oracle VM is safe and stable. It is also very easy to administer. For example, opening a VM or adding a host adapter is extremely easy."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"It would be good if we could use Hyper-V Windows subsystems with Linux and VirtualBox on the same instance. Currently, to be able to use VirtualBox, we have to restart the machine into an instance of Windows where Hyper-V is disabled, which is understandably very inconvenient."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd 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 Dell PowerFlex, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V and Oracle VM.
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