Nutanix AHV vs. Oracle Virtualization

Nutanix AHV

Nutanix AHV

39 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Virtualization

Oracle Virtualization

22 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Nutanix AHV	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Nutanix AHV is presented as a modern and secure virtualization platform that powers VMs and containers for applications and cloud-native workloads on-premises and in public clouds. Its tools and automated workflows simplify the day-to-day administration of VMs and containers.	N/A
Oracle Virtualization	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Virtualization is an enterprise-grade server virtualization solution that provides KVM virtualization and management capabilities and built-in disaster recovery features with no license cost.	N/A

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Oracle Virtualization

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Community Pulse
	Nutanix AHV	Oracle Virtualization
Considered Both Products	Nutanix AHV GP Gourgopal Pradhan Consultant Chose Nutanix AHV Nutanix AHV offers simplified management and cost-effectiveness benefits. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Easy to understand and friendly Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Overall market share, reputation and innovation drove us to Nutanix AHV over the other options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV We left VMware due to the price alone, and we have no regrets. Nutanix has been a reliable and efficient platform. Incentivized Helpful? Wouter Zijlstra Servicedeskmedewerker Chose Nutanix AHV Nutanix AOS makes the basic operations (adding recourses and performing updates) a lot easier. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Cundall Data Centre & Infrastructure Specialist Chose Nutanix AHV 50/50, not much in it, to be honest. Nutanix AOS wins on the support, training, and certification ease but Dell / EMC has the name and integration support with its other products (e.g., Nutanix not supporting Networkers hot add mode). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV By far, in my opinion, Nutanix AOS is heads above VMware. From the creation of a VM to updating the nodes themselves, Nutanix AOS is so much easier, faster, and just an overall better product. I would choose Nutanix AOS over VMware any day. Incentivized Helpful? HM Hardeep Mohan Director Chose Nutanix AHV Vmware , Cisco HyperFlex Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV VMware ESXi has been around much longer and because of this is much more fully featured. However, on the flip side, it then makes Nutanix AOS much less complicated to operate. Nutanix AOS online support (and knowledge base articles) are very well written and comprehensive. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Nutanix [AOS] is a hyper-converged solution, and in the vSphere it was originally designed for the use of SAN, although they also have a hyper-converged solution. But the architecture and load testing showed the inconsistency of the hyper-converged solution from VMware. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Nutanix [AOS] is the preference as it has good management tools but may be a bit more costly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV The simplicity of the license means no need for a new storage array and hardware. Gartner report. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Nutanix is faster and easier, and more reliable than HPE SimpliVity. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Twitchell Senior System Engineer Chose Nutanix AHV As mentioned before I feel that Nutanix meets or exceeds the capabilities of the competition, where that is in ease of use, how well they support their platform, upgrading software, migrating VM's from another hypervisor to Nutanix or simply moving VM's between one Nutanix … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV VMWare is too complex to run in compare to Nutanix Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Ease of use and better support to the business. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Nutanix AOS is far superior to VMware. Both in cost and performance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer), VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View) and VMware ESXi Incentivized Helpful? Hernán Paggi Jefe de Departamento de TI Chose Nutanix AHV Our experience was good with VMware, but much more and on another level with Nutanix. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Roberts Director, Management Information Systems Chose Nutanix AHV There are other clustering solutions, to be sure. And there are significantly less expensive solutions for preventing downtime, such as Hyper-V replication, which is what I was using before Nutanix. But Nutanix is in the upper-right of the Gartner magic quadrant for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nutanix AHV VxRail was more expensive and used a different storage algorithm that we didn't find to be most efficient . Incentivized Helpful? JL Joe Lemaire Network Architect Chose Nutanix AHV We looked at both Simplivity and Cisco Hyperflex. Both are pretty good in their own right. Simplivity was very 'efficient' in the way they handled data, but we didn't like the idea of a propitiatory hardware card. Cisco's Hyperflex was our second choice, but we were so … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle Virtualization Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Virtualization I didn't use any other virtualization production other than Oracle VM Server. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Virtualization Digitalocean has no development free tier, so for startups is not as convenient. Digitalocean DNS system is way easier to use than Oracle's. Digitalocean firewall is also easier to use and implement. On the other hand, Digitalocean pricing is more expensive for big VMs (like … Incentivized Helpful? GR Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Chose Oracle Virtualization The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Virtualization AWS Backup, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Azure Blob Storage Incentivized Helpful? IT Itsik Tsarfati IT Director Chose Oracle Virtualization Both are better than Oracle VM, but Oracle application licenses on them were too high. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Nutanix AHV

Oracle Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Nutanix AHV 8.9 Ratings 9% above category average	Oracle Virtualization 7.2 Ratings 12% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	8.80 Ratings	5.70 Ratings
Management console	8.80 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.10 Ratings	5.50 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.60 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.10 Ratings	8.40 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Nutanix AHV	Oracle Virtualization
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Enterprises	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Nutanix AHV	Oracle Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Nutanix AHV	Oracle Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	[Nutanix AOS] is good when you need easy scaling and high reliability. The good architecture of the solution allows to solve the tasks set for the platform. This solution allows to reduce the number of personnel serving the infrastructure due to the ease of management and a good knowledge base. As a disadvantage, I would attribute the complexity of customizing some types of loads to optimal work on DFS, for example, high-load databases. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Customers considering virtualization software can consider Oracle VM Server as their single-stop solution. The data centre managers should look at this as their first option. And certainly Oracle, with its long legacy in enterprise IT, knows how to build a powerful virtualization platform. Besides its free for Oracle customers makes it pretty unique in its own field. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	One component to support both compute and storage needs for virtualization. Easy expandable as business needs arise both at the node level and larger with blocks. Well outlined interface with good historical data. API tools are available to obtain logging information from Nutanix that can be used with other monitoring tools such as Splunk. Incentivized Tyler Twitchell Senior System Engineer Read full review	Great price. Nomenclature of backup is well defined. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Management of VMs on AHV take some getting used to. It's just a list of VMs that are displayed, and you search through it. Not the normal folder structure that I'm used to in VMware. Also can't disable a NIC card in a VM in AHV. Very handy feature present in VMware. Larger workloads may have to be tweaked to get the performance you need/want. Incentivized JL Joe Lemaire Network Architect Read full review	Management/GUI is uncomfortable. Remote control via VNC is hard to use with graphic interface and for terminal we have SSH configuration and maintenance is not as straight forward as in VMware, Xen or even Microsoft Hyper-V. Incentivized Itsik Tsarfati IT Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	We made a huge financial investment with this platform (four clusters, all-flash storage array), so we're in it for the long haul. Luckily it's a beast. I've had to use support more than any other platform I've administered, but the help has been very good. Nutanix continues to add features and innovations which increase the ROI Incentivized Nathan Roberts Director, Management Information Systems Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Nutanix Prism Element and Prism Central are easy-to-use HTML5-based web consoles. The layout makes sense; you're only a few clicks away from getting to where you need to be. The AHV hypervisor is integrated into the platform for a fast and seamless experience. Rich data on VM metrics is also available. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	The performance is very impressive. I am used to VMware and the snapshots were taking 10 minutes. The first time I had to restore from a snapshot on Nutanix it took 5 seconds and I couldn't believe it. Everything done on the server is fast. Powering on VM is done in seconds compared.to what we were using before. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Our first support ticket to Nutanix was responded to within 10 minutes of submission. That was kind of impressive. They have worldwide support so that when a support request is created, support is acknowledged in a relative short amount of time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	By far, in my opinion, Nutanix AOS is heads above VMware. From the creation of a VM to updating the nodes themselves, Nutanix AOS is so much easier, faster, and just an overall better product. I would choose Nutanix AOS over VMware any day. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	DigitalOcean has no development free tier, so for startups is not as convenient. DigitalOcean DNS system is way easier to use than Oracle's. DigitalOcean firewall is also easier to use and implement. On the other hand, DigitalOcean pricing is more expensive for big VMs (like 64 Gb and 8 CPUs) and above. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It is a highly redundant solution Nutanix [AOS] provides a simple easy to manage HCI platform with a reduced TCO and an increased ROI Centralized management solution of consolidated sever and storage solution in a virtualized environment which minimizes wastage of valuable resourses Offers businesses the agility and flexibility to run other virtualized platforms on the Nutanix environment Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Reducing physical costs Safety Cost benefit Need to improve the platform designer Provide more support material Incentivized Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Read full review
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