Nutanix AOS Review
Rating: 8 out of 10
November 01, 2021
JS
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
We are using it as our dev/test virtualization environment at our business center, which consolidated the previous test/dev environment based on Azure and Cisco UCS virtual platform, and planned to bring all dev/test VMs from the cloud back on-prem, and double the test /dev capacity for the whole company.
- Easy configure and managment
- Compatible with VMware
- Feature rich
- very good customers service and quick support/respond from account team
- less cost
- Reduced cost on the dev/test environment.
- Consolidate the Azure dev/UCS dev into one.
- Smaller rack size and less cables to manage.
- less power usage and UPS power consumption.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
We focus on the product's features and how easy to setup/configure, use the feature, support and train the users to use the new feature. Usability is big because the user's experience is the key. How users can grasp the new features, easy to use it is the key. Which in turn can easy the support as well.
We have some training mostly online and free access to Nutanix university as well. The Nutanix community is another place we can exchange ideas and learn experience from other Nutanix users and Nutanix employees. We also have good relationships with our account manager and engineer, they are very reachable and eager to help out and answer questions. Xtribe is very good place too.
We used UCS before, which is a little complicated to setup. There are multiple devices need to connect together (for example two FIs and main process chassis needs to cross-connected first), and there is no storage built-in. But once all setup and configured, it is good. The setup and configuration take quite bit time, it's complicated. Then we used Cisco UCS manage it. The interface is of UCS is good, but had some compatiblities issue with Java applets.
While Nutanix AOS is fairly easy once the chassis turn on the network connected. the Interface is very straightforward. No compatibilities issue like Jave.
While Nutanix AOS is fairly easy once the chassis turn on the network connected. the Interface is very straightforward. No compatibilities issue like Jave.
20
Nutanix AOS is main virtualization environment for our developers. Which will include multiple production Silos and each applications' releases. There are some data need to share between the releases. And large amount of data need to be transferred between real production environment and Dev/Test environment. And those happen very often.
3
we have three system administrators mainly support this test/dev virtual environment. Two of them took the Nutanix training and both of them and the third staff also took the online training from Nutanix university, And three of those staff did quite bit cross training as well. All those three had Cisco UCS experience.
- Test/Dev environment for applications
- consolidate the previous test/dev from Azure and Cisco UCS
- minimize the data transfer between different platforms
- AOS file feature is very usable
- AOS Calm feature is valuable feature which we do not have on UCS
- lower power consumption save us effort to expand the UPS capacity and have larger environment.
- Can setup Nutanix boxes in multiple branches and take advantage of replication feature for site backup.
- Nutanix expanded into OT environment.
- Nutanix expanded into different vendor hardware platforms.
Yes
We used Cisco UCS in house to host some of our Test environment, and we have used Azure for rest of test environment and dev environment. But we found the Azure cost too much to maintain large amount of VMs and we have Azure and Cisco UCS, the two environments needed to combine.
We did not have the option for test drive online at the time we made decision. But now most of the features from Nutanix can be evaluate online. And now there are lots technical seminar online as well. Which make all the feature evaluation and testing are very easy and quick.