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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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What is Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure?

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.

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What users are saying about Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure.
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Great hyper-converged virtualisation platform.

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were dealing with multiple vendors for hosts and storage. Nutanix meant we could use one vendor for both. Their support is the best we’ve dealt with as well, quick response and resolutions. Cost-wise, they were cheaper than their closest competitor. Nutanix was hosting our whole production estate and test.

Pros

  • Hyper-converged architecture.
  • Support
  • Ease of management - one interface.

Cons

  • It would be nice to have the ability to schedule snapshots.
  • Some settings are really hard to find.
  • licencing could be a bit better, as adding more features can get quite expensive.

Return on Investment

  • Time spent on management.
  • Fewer vendors and renewals to deal with.
  • Update process is a lot faster and automated.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware vSphere, Rubrik and VMware vCenter

Other Software Used

Rubrik, Veeam Data Platform, Azure Virtual Machines

Nutanix for everyone.

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are looking for multi-cluster platform with reasonable cost for the total package and Nutanix become the first in the list. We are getting application, terminal and database running in Nutanix with High availability. Production able to run the system with best performance ever and as such less complaint we receive from end user.

Pros

  • Easy to manage.
  • Deployment was seamless.
  • Top notch performance.
  • One-click upgrade was awesome.

Cons

  • VM listing at least please make it easy to navigate like vmware vm list.
  • Event alert is not user-friendly.
  • Roles and responsibilities assignment is difficult to navigate, especially if the user is from the Domain.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to manage.
  • High performance.
  • Less problem.
  • Automation is available.
  • Enterprise-level, not suitable for small organizations.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware Cloud Foundation

Other Software Used

VMware Blockchain, HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray

Why you should be ready for the feature

Incentivized
Vasudevan Sanjeeveerao
IT administrator in Information Technology at Detasad (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for my virtual desktop infrastructure; as far as I have no issues, Nutanix dealt with a self-healing approach, which makes me believe in using Nutanix for my upcoming projects. I have integrated my infrastructure with Citrix cloud. I was facing one problem with Nutanix files; when the files share a name created with space in between, it will give a nightmare for the users, as they don't know why their files are loading slowly. Nutanix now allowing file share name with space on 1st attempt, when you edit the share its allowing you to use space in between.

Pros

  • Updates of the infrastructure under one panel (LCM)
  • Data redundancy and replication
  • Licensing of the cluster
  • Prism Central for managing multiple cluster with playbook to play around it
  • containaraization
  • Protection domain and remote site configuration
  • Self healing mechanism

Cons

  • Nvidia updates could be better on heterogeneous infra
  • Need PC LTS and STS versions
  • API should have more features

Return on Investment

  • adding compute only node for my compute requirements
  • The ROI is not an doubt for Nutanix , as we are doing cloud business on top of it
  • the subscription is like 3 years , don't have to worry about yearly budgets for my infra
  • planned investments would be great, hardware's bit costly

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi

Other Software Used

Citrix DaaS, VMware ESXi

Nutanix AOS Review

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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Nutanix AOS for several Web Servers, core business applications, and mail servers. The obstacle we face is the renewal price is quite expensive.

Pros

  • Informative dashboard
  • Good and fast Support
  • Very good performance
  • Easy to operate

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dell PowerEdge

Other Software Used

Nutanix AHV

Nutanix is a next-generation data center stack

Incentivized
Ryan ArnoldView profile
Director of IT in Information Technology at Acumen Fiscal Agent (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Single management interface.
  • Native hypervisor (AHV).
  • Built-in file clustering services (Nutanix Files).
  • Built-in DR capabilities.
  • Amazing visibility into performance and metrics from storage, hosts, network, and VMs.

Cons

  • 1-click upgrades for BIOS still seems to fail sometimes.
  • Some things are still done via CLI like VM-VM anti-affinity.
  • Native Nutanix VMs take up quite a bit of RAM (CVM, Nutanix Files, Prism Central).

Return on Investment

  • Less time to manage infrastructure.
  • Increase in productivity with Nutanix files.
  • Increased RPO using native Nutanix snapshots.

Alternatives Considered

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)

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