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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…
Scalable and Reliable
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Competitive HCI Vendor
Nutanix AOS - The hybrid multi-cloud product that simplifies things
Easy to use
Nutanix Rocks the technology world
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Experience with Nutanix AOS
Fast, reliable, and highly available.
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Nutanix AOS - Simplicity and Complexity in a Box (inside another box)
The hardware will be …
Nutanix AOS is fantastic!
The best HCI solution you can have
Nutanix AOS is awesome
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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),…
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Competitors
- VMware vSAN
- Cisco HyperFlex
- HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)
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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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- 8.2Likelihood to Renew6 ratings
- 8.6Availability2 ratings
- 8.5Performance51 ratings
- 8.2Usability4 ratings
- 9.7Support Rating54 ratings
- 9.1Online Training3 ratings
- 8.6In-Person Training2 ratings
- 9.1Implementation Rating2 ratings
- 8.6Configurability2 ratings
- 9.1Product Scalability2 ratings
- 5.2Ease of integration2 ratings
- 5.2Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 5.2Vendor post-sale2 ratings
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(1-25 of 69)Scalable and Reliable
- Reduced the maintenance cost
- Easy to manage with fewer technical staff
Go with Nutanix AOS, You Will NOT be disappointed
- Licensing cost reduction
- Performance
- Reliability
Competitive HCI Vendor
- Simple to manage and maintain
- Free online training material good (Nutanix University)
- Some cost savings on hardware vs HCI, but licensing can tilt it the other way
Nutanix AOS - The hybrid multi-cloud product that simplifies things
- Reduction of maintenance costs on a long term basis
Easy to use
- Centralized management
- All in one box
Nutanix Rocks the technology world
- The licensing cost for Nutanix AOS is far cheaper than VMware.
- The price savings of additional virtualization stations are also huge.
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- 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.
Experience with Nutanix AOS
- We find that return on investment is probably a better metric in most cases.
- ROI analysis is more than an exercise. Companies must outline what their future looks like, even if it’s vastly different from what they’re used to and comfortable with.
- As good as your financial analysis might be, displacing status quo infrastructure has a lot of emotions tied to it.
Fast, reliable, and highly available.
- Our users noticed faster response times from servers and admins are happy with the management simplicity.
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- Initial costs were big. Lots of paperwork to secure the funding.
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- Happier customers
- Storage management
- Capacity management
- Disaster recovery
- Life Cycle Manager (the ease at which we can upgrade to the latest and greatest OS/Firmware variants)
Nutanix AOS is fantastic!
- Certainly reduced cost.
- Increased performance.
- Better end user experience network-wise.
The best HCI solution you can have
- Technical benefits, mostly
Nutanix AOS is awesome
- Positive - Unlimited to create or deploy VM.
- Positive - Cost of data center operation can be reduced. No more up and running separate physical servers.
- Negative - 1st time investment, the price is quite high.
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- Flexibility.
- Setup a great road map for future use and expansion.
My Nutanix AOS Review: A year in the life of and Systems Administrator who gets to rest peacefully!
- Reduced man-hours for initial implementations.
- Reduced man-hours for maintenance.
- Reduced man-hours for infrastructure change/restructures.
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- Great ROI
- Easily expanded
- Little overhead
Run VDI on Nutanix, it works!
- It would be hard for me to put a figure on it, but for all the previous reasons, price, performance, reliability, support, it's made a positive ROI.
- Rack space. I reclaimed so much after upgrading to Nutanix.
Saving and consolidating
- We have cut our server farm down from about 20 hypervisors down to 6 hypervisors.
- We have cut our power bill down.
- We use less cooling.
- We've had great ROI on our setup and we're looking to keep it going with our next refresh.
Nutanix AOS, the best HCI platform.
- As soon as we leverage the virtualization layer from Nutanix, the ROI will be a no-brainer.
- We have the possibility to rapidly deploy infrastructure when we do M&A transactions to secure the IT at the new site.
- Cost of operations has been reduced.
- Digital footprint has been reduced.
- Learning curve is more difficult with a new platform.
Why Nutanix is the market leader in HCI
- ROI is good as storage and compute DC refresh
- Really pay as you grow
Nutanix is awesome
- Great storage management
- Great manageability
- Great capability