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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It is extremely stable."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"We had issues with this solution when it comes to resources. We have officially created four to five PMs and it just continues to make more resources even though they are delivered in the main post mode."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its ease of use."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"Ease of use, HA, internal 100gbps Virtio network, built-in backup (don't pay $1200 Veeam licence), support for multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM, no need to RDP in the VMs to do your stuff (Win, Linux and Mac with SPICE and using 6 screens here (11520*2160)."
"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."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"Backup and recovery could be better. It's a bit problematic. If you're not well-versed with Linux, it tends to be a bit of a challenge when setting up and recovering. It's not really GUI-based, and if you're not a good Linux user, it becomes a bit difficult. In the next release, I would like to have something like Hyper-V's Data Protection Manager, where you could do an offsite backup and keep a copy. I haven't seen that incorporated yet, but I'm sure they will do that."
"We are using servers individually, and we are looking for a reliable application that allows us to hop between servers with high availability."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"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 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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