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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…
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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 Integrations
- Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Competitors
- VMware vSAN
- Cisco HyperFlex
- HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Technical Details
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| Mobile Application | No |
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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 9.5.
The most common users of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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November 05, 2021
Nutanix AOS short review
- Great managability
- Easy to see issues
- Easy accessible roadmap
November 05, 2021
Nutanix AOS OK
- Friendly to use
- Easy to upgrade
- AOS
- PRism
November 05, 2021
Nutanix AOS review... a good product with a rich feature set and a company going places.
- Integration of HCI with an easy intuitive CLI
- Updates are straight forward
- Nutanix AOS training is free, labs are helpful and makes using Nutanix AOS easy
- Integration with other CLIs makes it complex to work out which CLI for which purpose is needed.
- Cost... its not cheap (but you pay for what you get some times.)
- We did get a dodgy set of DIMMs which require reboots, resetting, or replacing. Still getting above normal failure rates.
November 05, 2021
Nutanix AOS is a great product
- Performance
- Updating BIOS, BMC, etc. of nodes is extremely easy
- Set up was straight forward
- Technical support is very good
- The ability to add GPU cards could be more straightforward instead of having to add via SSH
- Improve the speed of updating AOS and AHV?
- Allow memory and CPU to be added to a VM while it it is running
November 05, 2021
Go with Nutanix AOS, You Will NOT be disappointed
- Performance
- User interface
- Automation
- Cost
- Licensing
- Features (more are continually added, but it is a newer product)
- Hardware compatibility
- Efficiency of CVM's
November 05, 2021
Competitive HCI Vendor
- Scales easily through addition of extra nodes to the cluster
- Easy to upgrade
- AHV included to help keep some of the costs down
- Integration with 3rd party tools
- Prism is limited if you use ESXi as your hypervisor
- Tied to certain hardware vendors
November 05, 2021
Nutanix AOS - The hybrid multi-cloud product that simplifies things
- Failover
- Scalability
- Gap between CLI and GUI functionalities
November 02, 2021
Easy to use
- Perfect Support
- Easy to use
- All in one package
- Improve interface. Add more features.
November 01, 2021
Nutanix Rocks the technology world
- Fabulous Support
- Great sales team
- Build-in AI of moving VM's is solid
- The management of clusters is as simple as it gets through PCent.
- The upgrade process can be somewhat tricky but has had recent improvements.
November 01, 2021
Nutanix AOS Review
- Easy configure and managment
- Compatible with VMware
- Feature rich
- very good customers service and quick support/respond from account team
- less cost
- Initial network setup is a little bit confusing and challenging.
- Data transfer speed is not optimized within box.
October 31, 2021
Experience with Nutanix AOS
- "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.
- 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.
October 30, 2021
Fast, reliable, and highly available.
- Speed
- Simplicity
- Reliability
- Too new to determine but so far so good.
October 28, 2021
Nutanix Review
- Hyperconverged
- Simple
- Small footprint
- Excellent Support
- Move more command-line driven activities to the GUI
- Reduce price
October 28, 2021
AOS Review
- Cloning
- Easy acces to performance data.
- Interaction with VM.
- Odd jobs
- In the early versions of the foundation the deployment was confusing.
- Support - Nutanix allows you to log the support query directly with a technical expert so you are in good hands from the get-go.
- This came in super useful for us as none of us had working experience with AOS prior to this implementation.
- Alerting/Reporting - there's a fantastic report engine built into Prism that populates generated alerts with links to KBs to resolve them. It's also very easy to get an idea of capacity usage over time this allowing for easier planning/diligence for other projects and BAU.
- Leap - I can't stress enough how impressed I am with this DR automation. I've got peace of mind that if everything did go wrong on a Sunday morning, I'd still be able to recover the estate in time to take mrs shopping.
- The technology can also be used for pre-change testing as it's very easy to failover to a test bubble and work on the 'live' server without touching prod (thus allowing one to prove that a certain change doesn't pose any risk)
- Install additional capacity - all that's required to add new nodes into your current cluster is to IP them via the BIOS and then click through a short wizard in the GUI. I added in 6 nodes with around 2 hours' worth of effort.
- Operating systems - there are 5 different operating systems that comprise the Nutanix solution (AOS being just one of them) and it can be daunting or feel convoluted at times trying to decide which one to use at the command line, or when troubleshooting. On the plus side, their support team is always readily available if we can't work something out or need a solution quickly.
- Prism Element/Prism Central - Nutanix sells their solution as a 'single pane of glass management' which is only half true.
- To install and configure, one interface with Prism Element but to access the premium features requires an entirely different console. That's where Prism Central comes in and use requires an entirely separate installation, configuration, and also considerations for upgrade.
- It would be very helpful if those features could just be made available in Prism Element dependent on the level of license installed.
July 28, 2021
It Director
- Easy scaling
- Self-healing
- Centralized management
- OneClick Upgrade
- Updates with zero production impact
- Adding hardware resources without stopping the clusters
- Mobile version support
July 28, 2021
Two years with Nutanix AOS--good value
- Incredibly easy user interface through Prism Element
- Adding new nodes is as simple as configuring IP and clicking add node
- Interface is set up the way your brain works--health is one location, nodes in another location, etc.
- Need to learn Linux--CLI is Linux based
- Better explanation of their internal management network
June 30, 2021
Nutanix review
- Easy scaling
- Self-healing
- Easy managing
- Good support
- Expensive software
June 21, 2021
A Brief Nutanix AOS review
- Simplify data center management.
- Savings in operating costs.
- Datacenter space-saving.
- Updates without impacting production.
- Adding hardware resources without the stoppage.
- One-click operations
June 02, 2021
Nutanix AOS is fantastic!
- Much easier to use.
- Customer service has been fantastic.
- Improved performance.
- Less cost.
- Honestly cannot find an issue.
May 05, 2021
The best HCI solution you can have
- Easy OS/Hypervisor upgrade process, using OneClick Upgrade
- Easy to troubleshoot VMs performance issues using native performance analysis graphs/data
- Centralized management per cluster using Prism Element, or even more centralized using Prism Central
- Easy to upgrade BIOS, BMC, and BIOS of different components using the LCM tool
- Support team is incredibly efficient
- VMs replication using Protection Domains works great for DR or Backup purposes.
- Although the OneClick Upgrade process is always improving, it eventually fails, and you need to work through it with the support team.
April 09, 2021
Nutanix
- Nutanix [AOS] scales very well
- Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor is included as part of the software package which saves costs
- Nutanix has very good management tools
- Nutanix has built-in intelligence which provides insight into the environment
- Costs seems to be a bit high compared to other HCI solutions such as Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
August 17, 2020
Nutanix as a recommended HCI vendor
- Easy to deploy
- Simple to manage
- Nice performance
- Great support
- Supports ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM as hypervisor
- Cloud backup to AWS and Azure
- Storage mode only using AFS and ABS
- More hypervisors should be supported (Xenserver, Oracle Server)
- Mix hypervisor deployment on three nodes
- Open vswitch management using Prism
August 13, 2020
Nutanix AOS is awesome
- Easy to manage.
- Simple dashboard.
- Hyper-converged.
- Support mobile version.
July 09, 2020
Nutanix Fan
- Cluster management
- One-click upgrades
- Single pane of glass
- Third party driver support for one-click upgrades (example: NVIDIA GRID Drivers).
- Specific metrics available from within Prism (Example: total IOPS capable not just what has been used).
- New games (2048 is getting old).