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Nutanix AHV

Overview

What is Nutanix AHV?

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.

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Recent Reviews

Nutanix AHV OK

9 out of 10
November 05, 2021
I can not say enough how great Nutanix AOS is, friendly to use, easy to upgrade (1 click). We switched over from PC to convert into VDI …
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Nutanix AHV is a great product

9 out of 10
November 05, 2021
We use Nutanix AOS as our virtual environment located at our headquarters and at three of our remote offices. We have a six-node cluster …
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Nutanix review

9 out of 10
June 30, 2021
Incentivized
Our company is engaged in software development. Nutanix AOS is used in our company as a virtualization platform, where many different …
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Nutanix

9 out of 10
April 09, 2021
Incentivized
Nutanix [AOS] is being used by how for the hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) environment which consolidates the server and storage …
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Nutanix Review

10 out of 10
April 13, 2020
Incentivized
We use Nutanix Platform in our IAAS services and VDI services across all our clients. The client experience has been improved from our …
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Nutanix Review

10 out of 10
March 13, 2020
Incentivized
We use AOS to host more than 100 virtual machines on different OS. Since our migration to AOS, we haven't had any issues related to our …
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What is Nutanix AHV?

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.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

AHV VM Networking | Tech Bytes | Nutanix University

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Live migrate AHV VMs with vGPU | Tech Bytes | Nutanix University

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AHV VMs with multiple vGPU profiles | Tech Bytes | Nutanix University

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Tech Bytes: Exporting a QCOW2 Image from AHV

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How to use RBAC | AHV Mission Control | Nutanix University

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On-Demand Cross Cluster Live Migration | AHV Mission Control | Nutanix University

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Product Details

What is Nutanix AHV?

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. Open source at its core, Nutanix AHV extends advanced virtualization capabilities to modern hybrid cloud environments. It features a distributed systems core designed for the cloud to solve today’s complex enterprise IT challenges.


Overview


According to Nutanix, the hypervisor is the foundation of modern IT. Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers abstract applications from the underlying hardware so that they can be dynamically provisioned, upgraded, and managed at scale. This paradigm is central across both traditional enterprise IT as well as modern cloud-native applications, but until recently these two delivery models were siloed.

AHV brings these two worlds together, with an open-source foundation extended with advanced enterprise features, and integrated into an HCI framework with built-in storage and networking capabilities for a complete, seamless solution. With simple provisioning and management of VMs, containers, business-critical applications and cloud-native operations and workloads, AHV enables a consistent hybrid cloud operating model across datacenters, the edge, and public clouds.


Enterprise-grade Virtualization Capabilities


  • Ensuring high availability for all workloads - Advanced virtualization features include VM live migration, dynamic scheduling, VM HA, and metro clustering.
  • Highly optimized utilization and performance - Memory overcommit, VM affinity, vNUMA, automated CPU compatibility, AHV turbo and an optimized storage stack.
  • Lifecycle management across the entire stack - Cloud infrastructure upgrades with one click. Start with firmware, and then automate rolling full-stack upgrades.


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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, and Oracle VM VirtualBox are common alternatives for Nutanix AHV.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Nutanix AHV are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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November 05, 2021

Nutanix AHV OK

Indra Zulardi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Indra Zulardi
Infrastructure Network, System and Virtualization
Bahrain (Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Performance
9
For the speed of attention, for the level of its technicians, and for the speed of resolution. The manufacturer's support has been very proactive and flexible since the creation of the cases, the follow-up, and the respective solution. On many occasions, I have had online support in less than 10 minutes of reporting the case, magnificent.
November 05, 2021

Nutanix AHV is a great product

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Construction Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Performance
9
Nutanix AOS performance is very fast. We have an all SSD environment, so whether I'm creating a new VM or restarting a VM, everything is fast. Again, the only item I wish that would be faster is when updating BIOS, BMC, etc., on nodes. It is a very easy process but just takes time.
June 30, 2021

Nutanix review

Verified User
Administrator in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Performance
10
Due to the cool DFS architecture, Nutanix has good read performance for loads. In general, everything works well. We only ran into problems with very specific workloads that did not allow multithreading. It is also worth noting that loads should be tuned according to best practices for best performance, which is not always an easy task.
April 09, 2021

Nutanix

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Performance
9
You can definitively notice that certain applications may run faster especially if you came from a non-virtualized server environment as you can now increase system resources as and when required. Also the intelligence and reporting on Nutanix [AOS] can provide you with insight whether applications require additional resources to run optimally.
March 16, 2020

Nutanix - The one-stop shop for virtualization

Tyler Twitchell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tyler Twitchell
Senior System Engineer
NetDocuments (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Performance
9
We as a company have seen good performance with the Nutanix product, meeting or exceeding that of other hypervisors we have used, such as Hyper-V and VMware ESXi. We have transitioned from other vendors' hypervisor platforms with great success and whenever the need has come up where more resources are needed for a VM Nutanix has been able to handle the load without issue. Where that is a simple change of a couple of CPU or having a VM that required 24 CPU and 256GB RAM, Nutanix has handled it all.
March 13, 2020

Nutanix Review

Verified User
Team Lead in Corporate
Civil Engineering Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Performance
10
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.
March 06, 2020

Nutanix AOS Review

Hernán Paggi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hernán Paggi
Jefe de Departamento de TI
Open Sports (Retail, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Performance
10
It allows us to use the platform on exchange rates in response to applications, databases, and critical company services. The performance of the storage is really excellent, even if you use it on a hybrid platform (not all-flash) like the Nuestra. We were able to increase the ERP response in a new case by more than 30% by hosting application servers and databases in Nutanix
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