Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Reviews & Insights

Score8.9 out of 10

170 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Hassle-free setup process: Multiple users have found the setup process of Nutanix AHV to be hassle-free. They appreciate the assistance provided by Nutanix representatives during installation, which allows them to start building virtual machines immediately.

Seamless software updates: Several reviewers highly appreciate Nutanix AHV's automatic management of moving VMs between clusters during software updates without any downtime. This feature ensures uninterrupted operation and minimizes disruptions, contributing to a smooth and seamless experience.

Intuitive interface and management: Many users praise the ease of system management from a web browser with Nutanix. They find the interface well-outlined and intuitive, making it easy to navigate and perform tasks quickly. Additionally, the interface provides good historical data, allowing for better insights and decision-making.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Reviews

77 Reviews

Great hyper-converged virtualisation platform.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 2, 2025

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.

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.

Verified User

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

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Nutanix for everyone.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 16, 2025

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.

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.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Nutanix AOS Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2025

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Why you should be ready for the feature

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 26, 2024

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

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

Vasudevan Sanjeeveerao

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

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure -- wish we got this years ago, no turning back

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 5, 2024

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.

Pros

single access point
utilized excising resources to maximize usage
train up is steep but once they get it it's a breeze

Cons

It could have been a for use but the initial integrations we hit a few bumps but that could be the consultant that were provided

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.

Dave Jung

internal it in Information Technology at FM (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Scalable and Reliable

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 3, 2023

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.

Pros

Easy deployment
User friendly
Easy to update / upgrade

Cons

More command-line driven than GUI
Not enough speed at times
Expensive when compared to competitors

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.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Go with Nutanix AOS, You Will NOT be disappointed

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 5, 2021

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.

Pros

Performance
User interface
Automation
Cost
Licensing

Cons

Features (more are continually added, but it is a newer product)
Hardware compatibility
Efficiency of CVM's

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.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Competitive HCI Vendor

Rating: 8 out of 10

November 5, 2021

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.

Pros

Scales easily through addition of extra nodes to the cluster
Easy to upgrade
AHV included to help keep some of the costs down

Cons

Integration with 3rd party tools
Prism is limited if you use ESXi as your hypervisor
Tied to certain hardware vendors

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

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Nutanix AOS - The hybrid multi-cloud product that simplifies things

Rating: 7 out of 10

November 5, 2021

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.

Pros

Failover
Scalability

Cons

Gap between CLI and GUI functionalities

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.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Experience with Nutanix AOS

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2021

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.

Pros

"Nutanix is an operating system playing inside an existing, rich IT ecosystem." Listen to Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix, as she shares game-changing results with the implementation of infrastructure-as-code.
With one-click simplicity, Nutanix AOS streamlines IT operations and relieves budget pressures by integrating storage, networking, and compute services into a single solution managed by IT generalists. Start small and scale without limit to meet business demands.
Deliver applications with the highest possible performance throughout the full lifecycle, not just day one. Provide reliable performance SLAs without worrying about workload changes or growth in application demands.

Cons

Nutanix AOS does not have template functionality like in VMWare.
[In my experience] Nutanix AOS does not have [the] functionality to add existing disk or disk belongs to other VM like in VMWare.
Nutanix AOS does not have the functionality to see backup snapshots at DR site. For example, if you have multiple Nutanix clusters then you cannot have snapshots of other clusters. You need to retrieve the entire snapshots of your Protection Domain to restore your desired backup.

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.

Yatin Shah

Database Administrator in Information Technology at CNL (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Experience with Nutanix AOS

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

"Nutanix is an operating system playing inside an existing, rich IT ecosystem." Listen to Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix, as she shares game-changing results with the implementation of infrastructure-as-code.
With one-click simplicity, Nutanix AOS streamlines IT operations and relieves budget pressures by integrating storage, networking, and compute services into a single solution managed by IT generalists. Start small and scale without limit to meet business demands.
Deliver applications with the highest possible performance throughout the full lifecycle, not just day one. Provide reliable performance SLAs without worrying about workload changes or growth in application demands.

Cons

Nutanix AOS does not have template functionality like in VMWare.
[In my experience] Nutanix AOS does not have [the] functionality to add existing disk or disk belongs to other VM like in VMWare.
Nutanix AOS does not have the functionality to see backup snapshots at DR site. For example, if you have multiple Nutanix clusters then you cannot have snapshots of other clusters. You need to retrieve the entire snapshots of your Protection Domain to restore your desired backup.

Likelihood to Recommend

Yatin Shah

Database Administrator in Information Technology at CNL (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience