Nutanix AHV

Nutanix AOS is well suited for both small and big organizations that run virtual machines or file shares. The integration with other Nutanix products is really good.

Our implementation team was 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 fulfilled. I think their support is top-notch.

Nutanix AOS now has a solution for most areas, especially the high end. The weak point is the entry-level, low-cost market.

I think Nutanix AOS is a great product and, I would recommend it to anyone. The only reason I did not give it a 10 out of 10 is because I don't do that for any product. Every product has room for improvement.

Modular virtualization
The only scenario where I would not implement it is at a site that does not have at least 3 ESX hosts and 100VMs. [In my opinion,] the cost would not be justifiable.

Small IT staff can maintain these clusters since they perform many of the functions automatically. Joining other nodes to the cluster is easy.

[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.

Nutanix [AOS] is well-suited for virtualized environments requiring high performance computing with the flexibility to scale and grow the environment well into the future. The applications that can run on Nutanix is typically your business critical applications such ERP, CRM, BI, Microsoft Exchange On-premise, etc. If your application can run in a virtualized environment, it can then most likely run on Nutanix [AOS]. If you business requires an intelligent virtualized platform with insight into how the underlying infrastructure is performing, then Nutanix [AOS] has very good management tools which can provide these type of reports.

With Nutanix you don't have to manage all the SAN parts (network and storage), that is the advantage of HCI.
You can still share volume with physical servers or other VMs.

Nutanix AOS is appropriate for VDI and IAAS; it is less appropriate for high performance databases.

We have based our entire company on the Nutanix hardware and AOS to support all of our servers and clients that we use for our business. It has been a solid product with HA features that allow us to run our business without interruption. For virtualization it is the best solution I have used in the last 7 years. We have both high performance systems and those that require vast amounts of resources and we have found that Nutanix works well in both instances.

Where there is less human intervention required in day to day work in the infra, Nutanix is best suited.

Nutanix is very well suited for anybody looking for a stable hypervisor. You have stunning support access ready 27/7 to assist and always taking care of any issues that could prevent you from uptime. I can't find any reason why it wouldn't suit any MSP needs.

So far it's been great and we haven't had too many challenges. I'm wondering how it would work in counties with slower internet access like us in Africa and regular power outages, however.

Automation and backups.

Nutanix AOS is well suited for cloud connectors and self-service.

Nutanix is a good solution if:

1. You cannot afford to have your services go offline.
2. You want peace of mind that comes from total hardware redundancy.
3. You are comfortable running commands through a terminal emulator.
4. You want a system that largely manages itself in terms of keeping your VMs online.
5. You're concerned more about bullets 1-4 than you are cost.

Nutanix is probably not a good solution for you if:

1. Cost is your primary concern. In this case, you would probably be better served using something like Microsoft's Hyper-V replication, which is included with the cost of a Windows Server license.
2. 24x7 uptime is not critical, there are cheaper and easier solutions to achieve near-constant uptime (see bullet one, above).
3. You are not comfortable working at a command line or don't want to pay for tech support.

I believe that Nutanix is going to be able to handle all workloads we throw at it, but (like with most things) you have to know how it works in order to design the workloads that will be running on top of it correctly.