Nutanix AHV short review
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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November 05, 2021
Nutanix AHV short review
- Great managability
- Easy to see issues
- Easy accessible roadmap
November 05, 2021
Nutanix AHV OK
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Friendly to use
- Easy to upgrade
- AOS
- PRism
November 05, 2021
Nutanix AHV review... a good product with a rich feature set and a company going places.
- Integration of HCI with an easy intuitive CLI
- Updates are straight forward
- Nutanix AOS training is free, labs are helpful and makes using Nutanix AOS easy
- Integration with other CLIs makes it complex to work out which CLI for which purpose is needed.
- Cost... its not cheap (but you pay for what you get some times.)
- We did get a dodgy set of DIMMs which require reboots, resetting, or replacing. Still getting above normal failure rates.
November 05, 2021
Nutanix AHV is a great product
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Performance
- Updating BIOS, BMC, etc. of nodes is extremely easy
- Set up was straight forward
- Technical support is very good
- The ability to add GPU cards could be more straightforward instead of having to add via SSH
- Improve the speed of updating AOS and AHV?
- Allow memory and CPU to be added to a VM while it it is running
July 28, 2021
It Director
- Easy scaling
- Self-healing
- Centralized management
- OneClick Upgrade
- Updates with zero production impact
- Adding hardware resources without stopping the clusters
- Mobile version support
July 28, 2021
Two years with Nutanix AHV--good value
- Incredibly easy user interface through Prism Element
- Adding new nodes is as simple as configuring IP and clicking add node
- Interface is set up the way your brain works--health is one location, nodes in another location, etc.
- Need to learn Linux--CLI is Linux based
- Better explanation of their internal management network
June 30, 2021
Nutanix review
- Easy scaling
- Self-healing
- Easy managing
- Good support
- Expensive software
April 09, 2021
Nutanix
- Nutanix [AOS] scales very well
- Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor is included as part of the software package which saves costs
- Nutanix has very good management tools
- Nutanix has built-in intelligence which provides insight into the environment
- Costs seems to be a bit high compared to other HCI solutions such as Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
April 14, 2020
Happy to work with Nutanix
- 1-click upgrade
- Works behind the scenes.
- Simplicity
- More functionality available in Prism (implemented with Ncli).
- PC functionality overlaps PE functionality.
April 13, 2020
Nutanix Review
- fast deploy
- vdi
- IAAS
- Quality review of software
March 16, 2020
Nutanix - The one-stop shop for virtualization
- 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.
- Correlating data across multiple VMs is difficult.
- More detailed information about BIOS and firmware versions hard to locate.
March 14, 2020
Prons & Cons
- Prism Central reporting is very useful.
- New cluster build and putting it into production is streamless.
- Gradation of the current environment is effortless.
- Knowledge sharing.
- Document and literature is few for the technology.
- Support service needs to improve.
March 13, 2020
Nutanix Review
- One-click upgrades.
- Very fast hypervisor.
- Easy management.
- Pricing.
March 11, 2020
Nutanix Review
- The de-duping feature works well.
- Gives our VM's stability.
- Speed with the core makes it very fast.
- Downtime when doing a cut over is long.
March 10, 2020
Fast growing company: Nutanix
- Nutanix CALM: Easy automation
- Nutanix Move: Flexible migration
- I have not found any such "CONS" in Nutanix until now.
March 10, 2020
My review of Nutanix AOS
- Updating and upgrading is a snap
- AHV for virtualization
- Files
- Better support through 3rd party vendors such as Dell
March 10, 2020
Nutanix for Always-On Computing
- Nutanix AHV removes the headache from clustering. Once it's set up--which a Nutanix rep completed--the system is largely self-managed.
- It was a turnkey installation, and I was building virtual machines from day one.
- The system automatically manages moving VMs from cluster to cluster when software updates are performed on the Nutanix system that require the nodes to be rebooted, so there is no down time.
- System management from a web browser is easy management, as it can be managed from anywhere there is Internet connectivity.
- It supports Windows and Linux VMs equally well, allowing access to the VMs from within the browser. This can be much easier than using remote desktop or VNC.
- Nutanix has a huge learning curve. We purchased the on-line training course when we moved to the platform and it was literally weeks of instruction. It was so extensive, in fact, that we ran out of time to complete it before the test.
- Operations that cannot be done from the browser require running commands from a terminal emulator; perhaps owing to the newness of the platform, documentation is not robust. I highly recommend you buy the tech support.
- Software updates are sometimes rushed to release. I've gotten to where I wait at least a few weeks after release before installing them, as I've run into significant issues with buggy software. Such installations have required time-consuming tech support calls to resolve.
- While the promise of perpetual VM uptime is being fulfilled, the dashboard frequently reports issues that need to be resolved.
- Because of significant hardware redundancy, the cost per byte of storage capacity is high.
- Performance
- Scalable
- Safe
- More possibilities through the GUI (prism)
March 06, 2020
Nutanix AOS Review
- Easy of use
- Efficiency
- Consolidation
- Reliability
- Technical support
- Speed
- Limited presence in my country
- Service support not in Spanish
September 14, 2018
Nutanix Experience
- High Availability across the physical nodes
- Effective local storage distribution and de-duplication
- Intuitive user interface prism
- Integration with Cisco hardware
- Migration from VMWare could be simpler than what it is
- Can work on more straightforward driver support for different operating systems such as Server 2016
December 08, 2016
Breathing new life into slow, aging systems....
- Performance is great!
- Management via Prism is awesome!
- One-click hypervisor upgrades are fantastic!
- 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.