Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure vs. VMware ThinApp (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Nutanix 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
VMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Score 5.2 out of 10
N/A
VMware ThinApp was application virtualization software allowing legacy web applications to run on newer OSs, post-migration, also for running apps across a variety of devices (e.g. flash drives, locked-down computers, etc.) for accessibility and security.N/A
Pricing
Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureVMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureVMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureVMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Features
Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureVMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Application Virtualization
Comparison of Application Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
-
Ratings
VMware ThinApp (discontinued)
7.6
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Application support00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Device support00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Ease of deployment00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Application packaging00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Security00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureVMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Small Businesses
StarWind HCA
StarWind HCA
Score 9.2 out of 10
Parallels RAS
Parallels RAS
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
StarWind HCA
StarWind HCA
Score 9.2 out of 10
Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AHV
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN
Score 8.6 out of 10
Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AHV
Score 9.1 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureVMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(77 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.5
(51 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(54 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureVMware ThinApp (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Nutanix
For an organization that requires top-notch performance HCI, Nutanix is the best. You may start with 3 nodes and expand the cluster as required. The management through Nutanix Prism Central and Element was so easy that even a Junior Engineer was able to handle it. The Nutanix platform is not suitable for organizations with a small budget and fewer requirements for high-performance infrastructure, as the Nutanix solution itself is suited for enterprises.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
VMware ThinApp is really great for simple packaging projects, standalone apps, or older apps that needs specific runtimes or environment which are not available on target operating systems. Integration with VMware Horizon is simple, and deployment is easy by using shares for storing captured apps, or MSI packages for deploying by group strategies.
Read full review
Pros
Nutanix
  • One-click upgrades; whether it's hypervisor, firmware, disk or other updates. This feature has drastically decreased complexity and administration time.
  • Data Locality. Not all hyperconverged technology is created equal. When I first purchased Nutanix they were the only vendor (and as far as I know, still are) that made sure the storage a VM used was on the same host that VM was running on. Given a normal operating state, the [storage] network is literally only used for replication data.
  • They got rid of traditional RAID. Nutanix uses software to determine where a VM's storage should be written and replicated to. This dramatically decreases I/O when changing the number of nodes in a cluster, be it on purpose or during a failure scenario. Ex. adding a new node: If one uses RAID arrays then enough space has to be set aside to create a new array that includes the new node, then all the information has to be copied over, and the old array destroyed. RAID arrays do not grow and shrink gracefully so Nutanix has designed a better solution.
  • The Nutanix management interface was built on HTML5. No more flash headaches!
Read full review
Discontinued Products
  • Virtualizes applications for easy deployment
  • Allows you to run two versions of the same software at the same time.
  • Outstanding customer support
Read full review
Cons
Nutanix
  • Can be priced high at times.
  • The one downside I have working with Nutanix is the sales team. They seem to try to add in extra goodies to sales quotes or push for extras that you don't really need and you have to tell them to take them out. Don't be afraid to push back on them.
  • Need to analyze sizing with sales team to ensure right sizing.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
  • VMware seems to have abandoned the product (no functionality evolutions, only security patches).
  • VMware ThinApp is really difficult to buy standalone, it comes packaged with other products.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Nutanix
AOS definitely make our dev/test virtual environment management much easier than before. And the consolidation the test/dev environment from Azure and Cisco UCS, we have less need to transfer large amount of data between different hardware platforms which was very big challenge. To expand the capacity is very easy to archive as well.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Usability
Nutanix
It's not out of the box easy, but once you get the fundamentals the steep learning curve flattens out and the processes to get things done and how it works becomes very apparent. It's wrapping the slight change in workflow from prior VM management methods took time to unbox and apply the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure way
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Nutanix
So far no issue on availability during no issue on network or power outage
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Performance
Nutanix
The performance is nothing short of amazing. This is an HCI solution, and as any all-flash HCI solution is amazingly fast, Nutanix AOS fills local IO requests until its local IO is saturated before reaching out over the network. This lowers latency substantially compared to vSAN.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Nutanix
Our implementation team were great and worked with us and got the program up and running very easily. Every time we called post implementation we immediately talked to an Engineer, which is so unusual in dealing with companies. Everything they have promised they have full filled. I think their support is top notch.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
In-Person Training
Nutanix
We requested more training than typical which was very in depth
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Nutanix
A lot of online training courses, most of them are free.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Nutanix
IPv6 is needed for link local discovery. We do not have IPv6 configured on our network so the easiest way to get our nodes configured and discovered by foundation was to configure the IPv4 addressing within the node prior to trying to discover with foundation.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Nutanix
Nutanix integrates very well with Rubrik for backup and protection of the environment. Nutanix gave us simplicity and scalability compared to VMware and allowed us to extend our infrastructure into the cloud using EC2. One unified management pane for all our workloads, unlike VMWare.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
The only application that I have ever used that does exactly what VMware ThinApp does is Cameyo, and VMware is light years ahead of them in terms of usability. VMWare is the industry standard for application virtualization, and they do this by making a powerful product that is remarkably simple to use and top it off with A1 customer support.
Read full review
Scalability
Nutanix
We have scaled our products over the years and continue to do so very easily.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Nutanix
  • We find that return on investment is probably a better metric in most cases.
  • ROI analysis is more than an exercise. Companies must outline what their future looks like, even if it’s vastly different from what they’re used to and comfortable with.
  • As good as your financial analysis might be, displacing status quo infrastructure has a lot of emotions tied to it.
Read full review
Discontinued Products
  • VMware ThinApp allowed us to maintain older apps, avoiding refactoring costs.
  • ThinApp used with VMware Horizon is great to separate desktop and app management, allowing to fine-tune desktop delivery to end users.
Read full review
ScreenShots