We performed a comparison between KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The GUI interface makes the management of KVM easier than ever before."
"The performance is great."
"Very cost-effective."
"The most valuable feature of KVM is its stability."
"One of the best features of KVM is its user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature is hypervisor. I can host at the same time different operating systems in Linux Windows."
"I think nine out of the ten supercomputers in the world use Linux KVM, so I think that attests to the fact that it is a scalable product."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"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."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The product is easy to manage."
"The virtual manager and the graphical QEMU for KVM need some improvement."
"The only negative aspect of needing hardware support is a fully functional KVM can be dropped. It would be nice if the support for other platforms, like ARM or Risk, were as good as the x86 one. However, with the democratization of Chromebooks based on these chips and mobile devices, it will not take long for that to happen."
"The KVM tech support is really bad. They are not very responsive."
"I would like to see more focus on microservices and integration with Kubernetes or OpenShift."
"In KVM, snapshots and cloning are areas where there could be a little more sophistication, like VMware."
"The speed is around thirty percent slower than another competitor. This would be something to work on."
"I believe KVM offers a unified answer, while ProxMark addresses orchestration. KVM lacks orchestration. If the aim is to centrally oversee multiple KVMs – let's say to freeze them – a centralized management solution is absent."
"The grid interface of KVM needs improvement. It could be more beautiful, especially when compared to VMware."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"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."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
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KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 39 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. KVM is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Delivers good performance because of kernel-based virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and Oracle Linux, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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