We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Odin Virtuozzo Containers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"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."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"The cost of the solution is too expensive. There are other options, such as VMware, that are offered for less money. In Latin America, it seems to be overpriced for the market."
"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."
"It is a CentOS-based operating system, but CentOS releases security patches almost every week or every other week. However, Nutanix releases their upgrade at three or four month intervals. According to my organization's SLA, if a critical patch is released during that time, then I need to implement the patches within 30 days. If it is a standard patch, then I need to patch it within 60 days. Since that is my SLA, I cannot meet my SLA for security because Nutanix will not release the upgrade within these 30 days. Between the critical patch release and the Nutanix release, my customers say they are vulnerable and I am accepting the risk while the SLA is breached."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Odin Virtuozzo Containers is ranked 12th in Server Virtualization Software with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Odin Virtuozzo Containers is rated 6.0. 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 Odin Virtuozzo Containers writes "Significant backup for containers, but the customer service is terrible". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas Odin Virtuozzo Containers is most compared with Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV Virtualization, Hyper-V, KVM and VMware vSphere.
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