We performed a comparison between Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are comparable and receive similar ratings in most categories. However, users feel that Proxmox VE is more affordable than Nutanix AHV.
"If we want to move the virtual machine from one host to another, it's simple, straightforward, and stable."
"The most valuable part of Nutanix is its centralized management of everything."
"The most valuable feature is manageability."
"The solution is user-friendly and provides good virtual machine backups. The user interface gets updated when there is a new release."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization has good performance and can be used for backup and disaster."
"It is the simple non-consideration we get with this product that's great. It just works."
"The feature that has had the most impact is data locality. That is a feature that makes Nutanix different from other hypervisors. It helps us to get application performance that is probably double what we got with the legacy, three-tier architecture."
"The initial setup of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is straightforward."
"The tool has very good performance."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"It's very user-friendly."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"Proxmox VE has many containers. You need to download the image and do basic configuration, after which it is operational within a few minutes. The solution provides many containers that are light in use and don't use a lot of memory. You don't have to spend a lot of resources."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and easy."
"Nutanix misses alerts sometimes."
"It worked well in the beginning but after using it for some time, we found some limitations in terms of compatibility with other software."
"If we have to opt for a high level of capacity planning and need more analytics—like deciding on new purchases or budgeting, or if we need additional resources in the near future—we need to pay for Prism Central. I would suggest that Nutanix improve a bit on the analytics part of Prism Element so we can calculate those kinds of things within that flavor."
"If you have the need for special hardware like FibreChannel-Cards or such and there is no networked-way around it (such as you could work with USB Dongles via an HW-Dongle-Server of network), you have to use a separate hypervisor."
"The licensing costs are a little bit expensive."
"There are times when consultants, construction, or building firms need to use Beam but it can be difficult."
"VMware does tend to have more features than AHV. It's more of the leader in this space."
"There is no web interface with AHV."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
"Proxmox VE needs to make a deal with Veeam. I was also unable to make version upgrades. I have also encountered backup problems."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"We are using servers individually, and we are looking for a reliable application that allows us to hop between servers with high availability."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"We had some challenges with management including volume and storage management. Setting it up properly and making it work, specifically shared storage between the virtual machines, is difficult."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs. Proxmox VE report.
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