We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"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."
"It has seamless expandability."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"The solution is stable."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the speed. Additionally, I can modify the solution if needed because it is open-source and the integration of any kind of API and monitoring is hassle-free."
"Saves a lot of time compared to imaging physical desktops."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The virtualization is good."
"The tool has very good performance."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"The product could be improved with more security. The product needs a bit more experience in the market. I think you don't have the possibility to add other hardware. It could be improved with the ability to add and extend."
"It is a good solution, but it is very complicated in some ways. It is not easy. You must have experience in the console mode to do some configurations. A lot of documentation and YouTube videos are available that you can use to learn about it."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"The only issue I have with Proxmox VE is updating it. You have to manually update it or you have to have a way to update it automatically."
"The virtualization can be better."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
"The initial setup has a pretty steep learning curve."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and ISPsystem VMmanager.
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