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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"I like NCI's dashboard. If there are any infrastructure issues, we'll get alerts inside the dashboard. NCI provides a single platform for managing all of our databases. We are running SQL and Linux databases."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"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."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"I have a program on my old machine with 380 events, but I need to create new events. This is much easier to do with VFXTHs, and I have the skills to do it. I also have two VPNs running on the old machine, which I can use to get started."
"The solution allows for easy integrations."
"Saves a lot of time compared to imaging physical desktops."
"We can access the product from iPhone 7. It is stable and easy."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"The affordability of the solution is the product's most valuable aspect."
"The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"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."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"There should be a helm feature for managing Kubernetes ports directly from the Proxmox traffic interface."
"Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better."
"We are using servers individually, and we are looking for a reliable application that allows us to hop between servers with high availability."
"The virtualization can be better."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd 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, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and ISPsystem VMmanager.
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