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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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Why you should be ready for the feature

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 26, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 i...
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Vasudevan Sanjeeveerao
Administrator - Information Technology
IT administrator
Detasad
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure2 years of experience

Nutanix is a next-generation data center stack

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 10, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 r...
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Ryan Arnold
Director - Information Technology
Director of IT
Acumen Fiscal Agent
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure3 years of experience

Rock hard performance and other horrible romance novel cover ideas

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 10, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It's the backbone of our mission-critical servers. It houses our HR, file servers, print servers, database servers, web servers, and any other small projects we need along the...
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Verified user
Director
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure5 years of experience

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 5, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 w...
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Dave Jung
Engineer - Information Technology
internal it
FM
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure5 years of experience

Scalable and Reliable

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 3, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 se...
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Engineer
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure1 year of experience
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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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Product Details

What is Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure?

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is the core software of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, converging the entire datacenter stack—compute, storage, storage networking, and virtualization—into a hyperconverged infrastructure environment. NCI aims to deliver greater simplicity, efficiency, and performance for datacenters over traditional infrastructure. With NCI, organizations can manage mission-critical applications, data, and security across diverse datacenter, edge, and cloud environments, while ensuring performance, resilience, and scalability.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: AOS Storage: Consistently high performance, foolproof resiliency and flexibility
  • Supported: Flexible and Open Compute: choice of hypervisor, integrated virtualization and cloud-native Kubernetes
  • Supported: Automated and Secure Networking: Microsegmentation, Virtual networking and centralized network management

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Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

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, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services 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 Fan

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 09, 2020
CR
CJ Rossetti
Systems Administrator
U.S. Naval War College (Education Management, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Nutanix AOS as our current HCI. We have recently been phasing out older HP/Dell hardware to be replaced with Nutanix Nodes. On these nodes, we are running virtual servers and virtual desktops to support the mission and users/students of the Naval War College. This gives us the flexibility to expand with increasing demand and provide end-users with remote capability.
Pros
  • Cluster management
  • One-click upgrades
  • Single pane of glass
Cons
  • 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).
Likelihood to Recommend
Nutanix has been excellent in every way replacing existing hardware and infrastructure use cases.
Return on Investment
  • Flexibility.
  • Setup a great road map for future use and expansion.
Support Rating
10
Nutanix support has gone out of its way to make trips to us on-site to provide extra training as per our request for day to day troubleshooting and identifying new better ways to learn the environment.
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Training
Nutanix was easy from day one. It was easy to set up, easy to learn. We received the initial setup from support. Since the initial setup, any additional hardware/services we have set up on our own in multiple environments. This was fun and easy and very rewarding.
Performance
5
No noticeable change, other than getting us back to the use of shared storage to take advantage of VMotion capability.
Alternatives Considered
I have never used any other HCI like products
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
4
Support Headcount Required
2
Business Processes Supported
  • VDI Host Management
  • HCI
  • Storage
Innovative Uses
  • Consolidation
  • Maintenance
Future Planned Uses
  • File Server
  • Hypervisor Replacement
  • Storage expansion
Likelihood to Renew
10
Ease of use and compatability
Products Replaced
Yes
HP Bladesystem
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I wouldn't change anything. Moving to Nutanix was a great choice.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
  • Third-party professional services
I don't remember
Implementation Phases
No
Change Management Lessons
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Implementation Issues
  • Device discovery and switch configuration
  • IPv6 Support
Implementation Rating
10
IPv6 is needed for link local discovery. We do not have IPv6 configured on our network so the easiest way to get our nodes configured and discovered by foundation was to configure the IPv4 addressing within the node prior to trying to discover with foundation.
Training Types Used
  • Online training
  • in-person training
In-Person Training
10
We requested more training than typical which was very in depth
Online Training
10
The online training was sufficient to get up and running.
Product Configurability
10
Just right for this type of product
Configuration Lessons
no specific recommendations
UI Customization
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Extensibility and Customization
No - we have not done any custom code
Additional Customization Considerations
None
Bug Resolution
No
Exceptional Examples of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Support
Nutanix support went above and beyond to satisfy our request for additional in depth level 2 training in house. Our team loves to dig in deep in troubleshooting.
Easy Tasks
  • One Click Upgrades
  • Life Cycle Management
Difficult Tasks
  • Third party driver Updates - NVIDIA GRID
  • 2048
Usability
10
Everything that Nutanix AOS provides is straight forward and understandable
Scalability
10
We have scaled our products over the years and continue to do so very easily.
Reliability and Availability
10
We have not had any Nutanix availability issues over the years.
Systems Integrated With
  • None
Future Integration Plans
  • No plans or I cannot think of any
Types of Integration
We have not done any integration
Ease of Integration
1
We have not done any integrations
Integration Lessons Learned
None
Pre-Sale Experience
1
I was not part of any sales process
Post-Sale Experience
1
I was not part of any sales process
Key Negotiation Points
I was not part of any sales process.
Dealing with Nutanix
I was not part of any sales process.
Upgrade Process
Yes
Yes very smooth with 0 downtime.
Upgrade Benefits
  • No downtime
  • Stress free / Confident upgrade
Anticipated Benefits from Future Upgrades
  • No Downtime
Future Edition Upgrade Plans
No
Migrating Between Editions
No

Easy to use

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 02, 2021
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Nutanix AOS used across the whole organization. We are using it to solve a lot of different business problems from VDI to database.
Pros
  • Perfect Support
  • Easy to use
  • All in one package
Cons
  • Improve interface. Add more features.
Likelihood to Recommend
I give Nutanix AOS an eight because nothing is perfect, and there is a lot of improvements that can be made.
Return on Investment
  • Centralized management
  • All in one box
Support Rating
10
Best support I've ever seen
Key Differentiators
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Vendor Reputation
Perfect technical support!
Training
It's easy to use and easy to learn. You don't need a lot of knowledge in different segments (san\network\storage)
Performance
8
It's working well, but very rarely do we have performance issues.
Alternatives Considered
  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) (formerly RHEV)
Nutanix AOS easy to use, easy to deploy.
Other Software Used
Veeam Availability Suite, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
Training Types Used
  • Online training
Online Training
10
A lot of online training courses, most of them are free.
Easy Tasks
  • Update with LCM
  • Expand cluster
  • Automation
  • Kubernetes with Karbon
Difficult Tasks
  • Easy to use, but you need to understand HCI concepts
Usability
8
Nutanix adds a lot of new features with every new release, but there are still a lot of new ways to improve. For example simple inter-cluster live migration without any protection policies and so on.

Nutanix AOS is awesome

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 13, 2020
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Nutanix AOS to host all our application servers, network applications, hosting servers and database.
Pros
  • Easy to manage.
  • Simple dashboard.
  • Hyper-converged.
Cons
  • Support mobile version.
Likelihood to Recommend
Nutanix is well suited for:
- operating multiple servers when accessing remotely.
- backup/replicate/restore.

Less suited:
- can't export the VM.
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Support Rating
9
Fast response when logging a report.
Key Differentiators
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Stability and trusted.
Training
It was easy to learn. Yes, we received training.
Performance
10
Migration from traditional topology to hyper-converged. The speed and performance during deployment and using the apps is much better and superb.
Alternatives Considered
Unlimited VM without extra licensing. The AOS is based on KVM.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
2
Server Virtualization Administrator
Support Headcount Required
1
Experiences to manage virtualization environment , understand IP address scheme and understand the OS.
Business Processes Supported
  • Reliable
  • Stability
  • Performance
  • Easy to used
  • Backup and Replication
Innovative Uses
  • Manage to handle multiple high performance and utilization server
Future Planned Uses
  • Reliable
  • Stability
  • Performance
Likelihood to Renew
10
Satisfaction
Products Replaced
Yes
Oracle Virtualbox and VMware ESXi
Evaluation Lessons Learned
Nope
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Third-party professional services
Setup the box, fixed IP address, join cluster, do testing
Implementation Phases
No
Implementation Issues
  • So far no issue on that
Implementation Rating
10
Smoothly and implementation is straight forward.
Training Types Used
  • Online training
  • in-person training
In-Person Training
9
Transfer of technology (ToT), Hands-on in non production environment
Online Training
10
Completed and video explanation
Ease of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Training
Easy to learn the product but the proper way and guide from expert how to used also required
Product Configurability
9
Straight forward and simple
Configuration Lessons
In how, must follow the proper guide and how to
UI Customization
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Extensibility and Customization
No - we have not done any custom code
Additional Customization Considerations
Mobile version is required
Exceptional Examples of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Support
Nope
Easy Tasks
  • Backup and Restore
  • Unlimited licensing for created VM's
Difficult Tasks
  • When use and access through mobile
  • Still not support in mobile format for basic management
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
No
Usability
10
Stability and performance
Scalability
10
Can add on new cluster and join it to existing cluster
Reliability and Availability
9
So far no issue on availability during no issue on network or power outage
Systems Integrated With
  • MsSQL DB and Web Application
  • MySQL DB and Web Application
  • e-Learning System
  • Web Conference
  • Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
  • Network Appliance
  • IP-PABX System
Fully functional and operational
Future Integration Plans
  • Financial System
  • Help-desk System
  • Asset Management System
Both
Types of Integration
  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
None
Ease of Integration
9
Not much issue on it
Integration Lessons Learned
Planning, Sizing, Integration and Executing
Pre-Sale Experience
9
Understand what they mention about the product
Post-Sale Experience
9
After sales support is continued and frequently do tech update session
Key Negotiation Points
None
Dealing with Nutanix
Mention what we want and must suite to our environment.
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