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."Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The solution is very stable."
"Technical support is good."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"This is a great product."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The price could be lower."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"The solution lacks some open source remote administration tools. The reload of individual virtual machine definitions through the vboxweb service (via its API) without restarting it and the access to shared storage (to use teleport functions) need to be improved."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It has some issues when you have some weird device drivers. For instance, when you have a weird sound driver working on your machine, and the VirtualBox needs to output the sound of the virtual machine into the sound driver of the physical machine, the bare metal, it doesn't work too well. If you tweak lots of drivers and play around with the different kinds of drivers and machines, you will probably break something. I have not played with it too much and maybe it already supports it, but it would probably be good to have the ability to use a container from the virtual machine environment instead of spinning off a complete virtual machine. There are other tools for that. On Linux, you have a DXE, LXC framework, and you have Docker as well. Docker is good because it is multi-platform, and you can run Docker on pretty much anything, even different processors, but it would be good if we had a VirtualBox running on it while spinning off containers instead of full virtual machines. The other thing that will become important, and I'm pretty sure that they are thinking about it as well is that there's this new hardware platform that Apple is releasing, which is an ARM-based new chip. So, VirtualBox will probably have to work on ARM-based CPUs as well."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"The installation is difficult and could be improved."
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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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