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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It has been stable so far."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that there is no cost because it is open source."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"Technical support is good."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"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."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to be then subverted as a parallel execution. What happens then is that I have to work in two different environments within my data center. Practically, they are two different data centers but physically and logically, they are one. If they cannot talk to each other that creates a lot of issues. That is something which Nutanix has to develop because for Nutanix it is very simple. For example, Oracle is using a function called GoldenGate. They have a feature called GoldenGate which allows them to talk to various different environments which must really help."
"The compatibility and integration of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved. For example, we have a WAF application firewall and it does not work on this solution. Not all the OS's run on AOS. You need to have a newer version of an operating system if you want Nutanix to perfectly run all the different options."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"It is a CentOS-based operating system, but CentOS releases security patches almost every week or every other week. However, Nutanix releases their upgrade at three or four month intervals. According to my organization's SLA, if a critical patch is released during that time, then I need to implement the patches within 30 days. If it is a standard patch, then I need to patch it within 60 days. Since that is my SLA, I cannot meet my SLA for security because Nutanix will not release the upgrade within these 30 days. Between the critical patch release and the Nutanix release, my customers say they are vulnerable and I am accepting the risk while the SLA is breached."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"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."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd 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 Hyper-V, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V and Oracle VM.
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