Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Reviews and Ratings

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It’s a steep learning curve if you are used to VMware, but once you gain the knowledge, it’s far simpler. A lot more is done through the GUI. Integration through the cloud with NC2 is also very good. Support is the main differentiator, though, compared to other competitors, it has made our lives a lot easier.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Nutanix AOS is ​​suitable for companies that need fast servers and good performance

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for private and public clouds for the organization, as it provides various features. AOS and AHV are NCI's main pilers, making the impossible possible. Node, block, and rack level fault tolerance with high effectiveness, I think only Nutanix can provide as they removed legacy 3-tier architecture

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

had a big sprawl of vm's from original and acquired companies that needed to be consolidated to manage the infrastructure. worried about staff churn with tribal knowledge we wanted to standardize and be equipped to scale out when future mergers happened. We managed with the standard Hyper visor as a individual company but as we acquired more companies it became unmanageable and the cost savings with this made ROI sense.

Likelihood to Recommend

On the pricier side of the scale but after it's all said and done the transformation was well worth it. We felt that the ROI was recouped as expected with better resourcing. Would love to have a staging environment as part of the overall setup but i get it, it's all related to a cost.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is used to host Virtual machines (VMs) in our organization. The business problem it addresses is we don't have to maintain any physical storage servers after moving the VMs to Nutanix cloud. The physical footprint has been eliminated and we use Nutanix to keep all our VMs running, be it production, development or testing servers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is well suited for any scale of organizations. Best suited when you want to migrate applications from physical centres to cloud which considerably decreases the maintenance costs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nutanix AOS has been the final missing puzzle piece to moving towards a more flexible, agile, HCI based datacenter eliminating the complex management that is common with traditional or converged infrastructure. The automation pieces, especially the playbooks save so much time in larger environments by automating common tasks like expanding disk, memory, or cpu allocation to VMs. The overall UI is so much better than VMware or Citrix and the performance and ease of upgrades is on another plane compared to vxrail / vxstack or hyperflex.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would highly recommend using Nutanix HCI for any of your infrastructure needs. I would highly suggest saving money and using the free included AHV hypervisor. The performance is incredible, and the data reduction capabilities are on par with vSAN. I would only recommend using ESXi with Nutanix AOS if AHV does not yet support some one-off configurations or if you still want to use horizon while the frame is still growing.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've been using Nutanix AOS to consolidate our converged infrastructure (CI) to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) across our entire estate. This has meant quicker deployment, less rack space, and simpler management overall. We stuck with using ESXi as our hypervisor as it gives us the most flexibility with the existing tools we need for operational support. Hoping to add Nutanix Files later on to consolidate the many file servers and shares across the business, additional capacity for this can easily be added via the Nutanix Storage nodes.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nutanix AOS is well suited to:

Redundancy and resilience of your hardware

Largely manage itself, lots of checks done via Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC)

24/7 Operations where you have contractual commitments to keep

Support is second to none

Free online educational material (which is up-to-date too!)

On the downside, Nutanix AOS is probably not a good solution if:

Cost is your primary concern, maybe stick with vSphere or HyperV

24x7 uptime is not critical

There may be times when you need to work at a command line for features not in the GUI yet or general support requirements

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nutanix AOS is used across the whole organization as we manage a total of 3 clusters covering all our needs; storage, virtualization, networking, database.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nutanix AOS is well suited for redundancy and scalability. But the overall performance is one level below dedicated hardware for some workloads.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nutanix AOS is being used by [the] IT department, but indirectly it is being used across the whole organization. We did face some issues while migrating load from VMWare to AHV. Some of our legacy applications are not supported by AHV. Moreover, AHV does not have [the] capability to add existing disk or disk belongs to other VM. [I feel] it is also difficult to create a template in AHV.

Likelihood to Recommend

After using Foundation to create a cluster, you can use the Nutanix web console to join the Hyper-V cluster and its constituent hosts to the domain, create the Hyper-V failover cluster, and enable Kerberos. If you are installing Windows Server 2016, you do not have to enable Kerberos. Kerberos is enabled during cluster creation.