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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    KVM

    Score2.1 out of 10
    N/AKernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization solution developed by small Israeli software company Qumranet and supported by Red Hat since that company's acquisition in 2008.N/A

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ANutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.N/A
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    KVMNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    KVMNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    KVMNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
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    Nutanix
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    We looked at ten solutions, a mixture of VMware and Hyper-V as well as Nutanix KVM, many we rejected on the basis of fault tolerance - most of the other solutions only had two nodes and a SAN. We also found the associated costs of VMware too much for a small business. We also …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Nutanix is more expensive than VSAN. There's no getting around this. But the value of a Nutanix system far outweighs the value of VSAN. Nutanix will give you data locality, VSAN will flood the network with disk reads & writes. Nutanix wrote their own replication factor …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    We have used, and still currently use VMWare for our hyper-visor in many respects, it is what was used entirely. While Nutanix's Acropolis is missing a few features because of it being a newer hyper-visor, none of them are deal breakers and the cost savings is absolutely …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    KVMNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Feature
    Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
    9.2
    5 Ratings
    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    -
    Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management console9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    KVMNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (54 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)