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."Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"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.""
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"It has been stable so far."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"It's a very mature product."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"The network capabilities are good."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The stability is rock solid."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"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."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"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."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"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."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"Its database management features could be better."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there."
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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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