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."Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"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."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"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."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The good thing is that it is multi-platform. Once you create a virtual machine in one particular environment, you can switch over to see if you can run it in other environments. For example, if you are on Windows and you create this virtual machine, you can actually go ahead and change the operating system. You can switch it over to Linux or Mac OS and see if you can run the VirtualBox on those particular machines. It even runs on some of the commercial operating systems that are not mainstream, such as Solaris and BSD. These kinds of operating systems are also supported by VirtualBox. The other thing that is good about VirtualBox is that it is open source. So, if you need to do any modifications for your own purposes, you can just download the source, modify it, and deploy it in your environment. It is pretty good and very versatile. You can create and manipulate virtual machines from the command line, which is also very important. It's something that some other products on the desktop side do not have. VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop don't have a good command-line interface to create and manipulate virtual machines, whereas VirtualBox has it out of the box, which is pretty good."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The installation is easy."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"Technical support is good."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"It already has the capability to integrate with the major cloud providers but, in an upcoming release, if there is a possibility to have it integrate with other cloud providers like IBM, Alibaba, and other moderate-level cloud providers, that would be good."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"The solution is not flexible."
"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."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"It would be good if we could use Hyper-V Windows subsystems with Linux and VirtualBox on the same instance. Currently, to be able to use VirtualBox, we have to restart the machine into an instance of Windows where Hyper-V is disabled, which is understandably very inconvenient."
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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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