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What is Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure?
Nutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm…
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What is Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure?
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a distributed infrastructure platform for enterprise IT applications. NCI software combines compute, storage, and networking resources from a cluster of servers into a single logical pool with integrated resiliency, security, performance, and administration.
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Competitors
- VMware vSAN
- Cisco HyperFlex
- HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)
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Nutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.
VMware vSAN and Cisco HyperFlex are common alternatives for Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has proven to be a valuable solution for organizations in various use cases. Users have experienced significant cost savings and reduced administrative burden by leveraging Nutanix's automatic and streamlined operations. By serving as the core infrastructure platform for both virtualization and storage needs, Nutanix eliminates the need for managing separate server fabric and storage silos. This web-scale technology has successfully hosted and improved the performance of legacy servers and databases. Additionally, Nutanix AOS provides flexibility, scalability, and remote capability, accommodating increasing demand and streamlining day-to-day routines. It simplifies operations by allowing single-point management and migration between clusters, supporting development and production environments alike. With its Prism interface, Nutanix centralizes infrastructure resources and simplifies management, troubleshooting, and visibility. The product also powers VDI, file shares, web applications, and acts as the backbone of enterprise virtualization, delivering stability, scalability, seamless patching, and upgrades. It is chosen to consolidate storage and compute in the same host, eliminating the need for SAN switches and improving performance. Nutanix is implemented company-wide to impact all users in every department and consolidate storage data centers more efficiently. It provides native integration for all hypervisors running in Nutanix environments while ensuring data protection and application recovery. Nutanix clusters are deployed across multiple sites with minimal overhead, offering control over remote offices without the need for middleware software. The simplicity of implementation and management makes it an ideal choice for different use cases. Nutanix offers great performance, storage optimization, deduplication features as well as seamless upgrades without interruption. Users have reported greater visibility with reduced power consumption thanks to Nutanix powering their entire business. The product continuously improves based on user feedback while providing exceptional support from the Nutanix team. It also integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure to improve efficiency and encrypt data at rest. Whether it is hosting websites or providing a platform for virtualized server infrastructure, Nutanix meets high availability requirements while offering operational simplicity and scalability.
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.
Steep Learning Curve: Several users have mentioned that Nutanix has a steep learning curve, with the online training course being extensive and difficult to complete before taking the test. Users have found it challenging to get up to speed with the platform, potentially due to limited documentation and a lack of robust support resources.
Issues with Software Updates: Some users have experienced issues with software updates in Nutanix, stating that updates are sometimes rushed to release and result in significant problems with buggy software. As a solution, users recommend purchasing tech support to mitigate these issues.
Complexity in Management and Integration: Multiple reviewers have expressed frustration with various aspects of management and integration within Nutanix. Users find the interface for managing VMs on AHV unfamiliar compared to VMware's folder structure. There is also a lack of certain functionalities like the ability to disable a NIC card or add existing disks from other VMs. Additionally, there is complexity involved in integrating third-party tools, limitations in Prism interface functionality, and challenges with network segmentation and backup utility integration.
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April 02, 2020
Nutanix is awesome
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Nutanix has been a life saver for me. It takes all the hard guess work out. It is a true turn-key solution. It is so simplified and easy to understand a cave man could use it. It has really saved me a lot of time tracking down issues that I have had in my VMware environment.
- Simplicity
- Easy to use and understand
- Great data protection built in
- Change some of the layouts to user's preference
- Turning the data protection on can be a challenge
- I wish we could get a CLI in the dashboard
March 25, 2020
My Nutanix AOS Review
We use Nutanix AOS for VDI Desktop infrastructure for more than 300 users. Also, we have many VM application servers under Nutanix Storage Cluster. It's used for all our users in the whole organization.
- Nutanix AOS is a complete HCI solution
- Nutanix AOS is very stable in our infrastructure so far.
- Very easy to manage
- Informative monitoring and notification tools
- Need integrated tools for automation process in VM Guest OS level
- More complex operation and monitoring using API interface
- Need built-in integrated service monitoring
- Need more support and flexible hw cluster addition
March 24, 2020
Life before and after running Nutanix
We migrated entire organization's server virtualization infrastructure from the traditional 3 tier systems to Nutanix late 2019. This change has significantly stabilized the organization from the perspective of the application, database, file shares uptime and performance. It wasn't uncommon for applications to go down due to variety of random issues prior to Nutanix. It's been 5 months with zero issues.
- The metadata-based snapshot & cloning saves time & storage significantly.
- I really love their one-click upgrade. It really makes OS & firmware update/upgrade easy.
- Performance metrics is really great. I stopped looking at the vCenter's performance data because AOS' info is much more detailed, accurate and relevant.
- It's already great but I'd love to see even more details in the Performance area for VMs and hosts.
- The Analytics dashboard is not as intuitive as the rest of the Prism. Wish they'd enhance it so admins can easily pull up historical data.
- Would like to see better design of the Prism home dashboard. 99% of the time I only view the left 50% of the screen. I feel the other 50% of the screen can be better used.
March 19, 2020
Nutanix is a next-generation data center stack
Nutanix currently runs our entire production stack including AHV hypervisor running Server 2016 VMs, Nutanix Files for SMB file shares, Xi Leap for DR, and Prism Central for reporting and analytics.
We came from a "traditional" 3-tier data center where there were many management consoles and silos. This made troubleshooting, management, and visibility very difficult and complex. Moving to Nutanix allowed us to centralize all our infrastructure resources into a single-pane HTML5 management interface called Prism. Prism allows you to manage everything from your VMs, storage containers, file clusters( which now includes file analytics), and 1-click firmware/BIOS upgrades.
We came from a "traditional" 3-tier data center where there were many management consoles and silos. This made troubleshooting, management, and visibility very difficult and complex. Moving to Nutanix allowed us to centralize all our infrastructure resources into a single-pane HTML5 management interface called Prism. Prism allows you to manage everything from your VMs, storage containers, file clusters( which now includes file analytics), and 1-click firmware/BIOS upgrades.
- Single management interface.
- Native hypervisor (AHV).
- Built-in file clustering services (Nutanix Files).
- Built-in DR capabilities.
- Amazing visibility into performance and metrics from storage, hosts, network, and VMs.
- 1-click upgrades for BIOS still seems to fail sometimes.
- Some things are still done via CLI like VM-VM anti-affinity.
- Native Nutanix VMs take up quite a bit of RAM (CVM, Nutanix Files, Prism Central).
March 19, 2020
Go ahead with Nutanix!
We use Nutanix AOS to manage all our Nutanix clusters.
- It's easy to deploy.
- It's easy to upgrade.
- Supporting this software is usually simple.
- Nutanix AOS is taking a lot of resources. (CPU/RAM) Could be better.
March 16, 2020
The leader in hybrid cloud solutions with great support!
We have been using Nutanix as a hybrid solution to support all of our VM workloads around the globe and this has been providing great expandability and has proven to be very easy to administer and maintain.
- Scalability.
- Upgrades.
- Maintenance.
- Resolution times could be improved.
March 14, 2020
Nutanix offers great cost savings and performance.
We use Nutanix as the underpinning for our entire compute environment - development, test, and production systems (300+ VMs) are all running on three different Nutanix clusters at present. We run VMWare vSphere on top of the Nutanix layer, and we found that Nutanix has allowed us very good cost savings by using commodity hardware instead of expensive enterprise class three tier SAN style storage and expensive blade compute.
- Makes good use of commodity hardware.
- Makes storage clustering and redundancy simple and cheap.
- Can be used with Nutanix's AHV hypervisor or others like VMWare.
- Their dashboards could be improved - useful information is hard to find.
- Their click interface could be improved. Often clicking on something doesn't take you where you think it should.
- Their error messaging is not always helpful.
March 13, 2020
The future of IT
Nutanix AOS is sitting on a Dell platform with AHV. It is being used as the IT solution for the entire business Unit, but only accessed by the IT department.
Nutanix AOS is super fast and its saves time on IT \ Daily \ Regular checks so my staff can concentrate more on operational issues.
Nutanix AOS is super fast and its saves time on IT \ Daily \ Regular checks so my staff can concentrate more on operational issues.
- Cloning of disk
- One Click update
- Performance speed
- Needs better integration with Veeam
- Difficult to clone disk if you don't have knowledge
- Interface takes time getting use to
March 12, 2020
Nutanix Prism Review
We use nutanix to power 20 virtual servers and 330 virtual desktops. It is used for our entire school district. Using it enabled us to virtualize all our secretary/admin staff machines and 300 student machines. We now update one machine and push out the updates, saving us a huge amount of time and providing reliable machines we can reimage in a moments notice if a student or staff downloads malware or a virus.
- prism is great for managing updates across the platform. Just 2 clicks and the hosts are updated, no other action required. Also no reboots required usually.
- Tech support is very pricey but very knowledgeable. All support engineers are very helpful and always resolve our issues quickly.
- It provides great redundancy for our environment. Several times a host has failed and nutanix was able to move everything over without any of our users even being aware. The hybrid of flash and standard storage works great.
- Cost. nutanix is very, very expensive. Support is very pricey as well, but is basically an annual insurance plan. Covers all support and any replacement part costs. Not worth what they charge in my opinion, especially if you have multiple nutanix nodes like we do. It could be half the cost and I would be happy.
- Updates to ESXi hosts only occur automatically if you have VMware DRS. We don't pay for the licensing so we have to manually move machines off each host to reboot them. Not horrible but annoying.
- We use VM as our hypervisor, but nutanix does have their own (Acropolis). If acropolis ever did linked clones like VMware does we would switch in a second.
March 12, 2020
Nutanix AOS - The Clear Leader
We use Nutanix AOS to manage and govern how our virtual machines are operating. This has been transitioned into about 90% of our operations. It solves the need to get away from VMWare. It is a very clean system and does exactly what we need without fail! The interface is very easy to use.
- Clean Interface
- Operate without Issue
- Alert Reporting
- Hardware specs reporting could use some improvment
- The numbers for resources may be able to be changed to let better the user know what can be used
- The N+1 method works well but the indicators do not reflect that well
March 11, 2020
The Nutanix AOS kid on the block
We received Nutanix AOS as part of a turnkey solution along with Lenovo hardware and Aruba networking. It is used in a rack system that backs our casino floor operations and supports VMware vCenter 6.7.
- Great summary dashboards
- Feature-rich
- Automates a lot of maintenance jobs
- Errors and warnings are sometimes confusing
- Interface/GUI overexposes information at times, very busy screens
March 10, 2020
Nutanix AOS Review
Nutanix AOS simplified our datacenter a lot. Majority of the x86 workloads previously hosted on a 3-tier architecture have moved to the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. As AOS does not restrict you to use your favorite hypervisor (ESXi, Hyper-V, XenServer, AHV) it's flexible in that way and as the architecture is scalable, it's also easy to understand what you currenly use and need, and predict future investments based on the future workload.
- 1-click upgrades
- Scalability/predictability
- Support
- Licensing (mixed)
- RoBo clusters (2-node specific)
March 10, 2020
The best platform in town!
We use Nutanix as our hardware layer. We benefit from fast storage and simple implementation.
Also we save a lot of time by using the one-click firmware upgrade and one-click upgrade of the Nutanix software.
Also we save a lot of time by using the one-click firmware upgrade and one-click upgrade of the Nutanix software.
- Single-plane.
- One-click upgrades.
- Nice add-ons.
- Nutanix files.
- Auto-resolve.
- MSP program.
March 10, 2020
Nutanix AOS is great for any business.
We area software as a service company, and we provide cloud database storage for companies. We use Nutanix AOS to control our software.
- Give you full control of the data flow.
- I cannot think of any areas for improvement right now.
March 10, 2020
An improvement to our private cloud
Nutanix AOS is being used across our organization. We utilize it to power our VDI, file shares, and web applications.
- The environment is consistent across all interfaces
- The equipment and services have been reliable
- We have noticed improved I/O performance and end-user experience
- Managing health checks can be cumbersome as we see a lot of false alarms.
March 10, 2020
True HCI and Hybrid Cloud Solution by Nutanix AOS
- I am using Nutanix AOS across the whole organization with running workloads like SQL Servers, AD, POS & other customized applications.
- It streamlined my day-to-day routine, provide faster data access for SQL servers, ease of use for IT management & quick and stable snapshots.
- I have huge cost-saving benefits after using Nutanix AOS.
- Single pane of glass
- Amazing and quick tech support
- Quick turn around in creating VMs and snapshots
- File server
- Apple Mac option
March 10, 2020
Nutanix AOS Review by Me
Nutanix AOS simplify my work with one click upgrade, consolidate all the three-tier architecture from 3 racks including server and storage to 1 rack server with six nodes of Nutanix AOS to handle all our VM for our clients
- One-click upgrade
- Single panel to manage
- All in one solution for hardware
- Consolidate three-tier architecture
- Less rack space used
- Power consumption
March 10, 2020
Nutanix AOS, the hyperconverged of the future
Nutanix AOS is currently the virtualization manager of our entire VM landscape and being used by the IT department only.
The intuitive interface and one-click upgrades solve all the issues that we had in the yesteryears on maintaining, patching, upgrading our IT infrastructure. This allows us to utilize our workforce for more value add jobs. Also, when your environment keeps the workers happy with work-life balance, job turnover does go down.
- Intuitive interface
- One-click upgrade
- Unmatched simplicity
- A mobile app
March 10, 2020
To borrow a sporting tagline - Just do It
- We started our Nutanix AOS Journey over five years, Migrating from a 3 Tier Dell infrastructure. It became very apparent that this was something different; It just worked. With 6 Months, we'd migrated all our production systems to Nutanix AOS.
- Since then, we've continued along with Nutanix AOS, most recently migrating from Hyper-V to Nutanix AOS, very own Hypervisor, AHV. Why? Because it simplifies operations, putting everything into that great "single plane of glass."
- Invisible Infrastructure
- Simple, easy to understand interface
- One-click functionality
- Better 3rd party integration (but that's not *really* Nutanix AOS problem)
March 10, 2020
Simplified management of virtualize infrastructure
We use Nutanix AOS for hosting cloud-based PBX systems such as asterisk and 3CX. Nutanix AOS simplifies our daily lives with low maintenance hyper-convergence. It also simplifies a lot of aspects of virtualization, such as fast snapshots and restores, disk/resource expansion, etc.
- Dashboard
- Snapshots and backups
- Disaster recovery
- Can't think of any
March 10, 2020
NUTANIX AOS.........THE WAY FORWARD!
- Nutanix is super!
- Nutanix AOS has increased productivity and decreased time spent on server checks by at least 2-3 hours per day.
- Because Nutanix AOS does everything for you
- Auto resolve is magic.
- The move is the next level and makes it so easy to migrate from HyperV.
- Easy to use interface
- Easily accessible
- Server rack decreased to just 6U's
- Reporting on usage and where can you save
March 10, 2020
Nutanix Review
It is being used by a section of users for HCP work loads.
- Easy to deploy.
- Easy to manage.
- Excellent support.
- Need memory-thin provisioning features.
- The amount of alerts being shown in the dashboard has to reduce and become co-related.
- Self-healing mechanism is needed.
March 09, 2020
Nutanix HCI gives you freedom!
In our company, we use Nutanix our main data center platform. We deliver our customers services from this platform, they can rent a whole IaaS environment, but also per VM if they want to. Nutanix AOS is our main infrastructure platform and therefore it is used by everybody in our company. It makes our company very flexible in delivering virtual infrastructure to our customers.
- Availability.
- Scalability.
- Managability.
- Hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Ease of deployment.
- Easier migration from Hyper-V to AHV.
- We can solve daily errors easier.
- MSP program for providers.
March 09, 2020
Nutanix Review
We are currently using it at one of our units and we find it so easy to do the maintenance checks so we have started rolling it out to the other units. Each unit runs its whole infrastructure off it, and we have not found a challenging part besides cloning a disk and attach to another VM. It is command-based, but maybe a guide would be nice.
- Space efficiency.
- Stability.
- Security.
- Maybe an easier way to manage VM storage.
- Reduce the price.
March 09, 2020
HCI transformation made possible by Nutanix AOS
Our enterprise virtualization is almost entirely powered (~99%) by Nutanix HCI running AOS. AOS provides us with a robust, modular and scalable infrastructure to deliver mission-critical workloads. AOS provides us the stability our customers demand, enables us to easily and seamlessly perform patching and upgrades, and gives us the peace of mind knowing that it's all backed by best-in-class support.
- Highly responsive support team behind the product, and direct access to the developers who provide responsive feedback to requests/technical issues.
- Single pane of glass management for the platform makes it easy to support and operate day-to-day.
- Delivers exceptional performance running even the most demanding workloads.
- Lifecycle management software has been less than stellar at times, requiring some manual intervention.
- It's not an inexpensive solution if you're running ESXi on top of AOS.
- The licensing model has changed a few times, hopefully the current model will stick.