We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"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."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"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."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 77 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE.
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