Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

Score8.9 out of 10

170 Reviews and Ratings

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 and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.

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#1 most frequent

Manufacturing

32.7%

16 installations of 49

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

26.5%

13 installations of 49

#3 most frequent

Information

6.1%

3 installations of 49

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are looking for multi-cluster platform with reasonable cost for the total package and Nutanix become the first in the list. We are getting application, terminal and database running in Nutanix with High availability. Production able to run the system with best performance ever and as such less complaint we receive from end user.

Pros

Easy to manage.
Deployment was seamless.
Top notch performance.
One-click upgrade was awesome.

Cons

VM listing at least please make it easy to navigate like vmware vm list.
Event alert is not user-friendly.
Roles and responsibilities assignment is difficult to navigate, especially if the user is from the Domain.

Return on Investment

Easy to manage.
High performance.
Less problem.
Automation is available.
Enterprise-level, not suitable for small organizations.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware Cloud Foundation

Other Software Used

VMware Blockchain, HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were dealing with multiple vendors for hosts and storage. Nutanix meant we could use one vendor for both. Their support is the best we’ve dealt with as well, quick response and resolutions. Cost-wise, they were cheaper than their closest competitor. Nutanix was hosting our whole production estate and test.

Pros

Hyper-converged architecture.
Support
Ease of management - one interface.

Cons

It would be nice to have the ability to schedule snapshots.
Some settings are really hard to find.
licencing could be a bit better, as adding more features can get quite expensive.

Return on Investment

Time spent on management.
Fewer vendors and renewals to deal with.
Update process is a lot faster and automated.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware vSphere, Rubrik and VMware vCenter

Other Software Used

Rubrik, Veeam Data Platform, Azure Virtual Machines

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Nutanix AOS for several Web Servers, core business applications, and mail servers. The obstacle we face is the renewal price is quite expensive.

Pros

Informative dashboard
Good and fast Support
Very good performance
Easy to operate

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dell PowerEdge

Other Software Used

Nutanix AHV

Ryan Arnold View profile

Director of IT in Information Technology at Acumen Fiscal Agent (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

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.

Cons

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).

Return on Investment

Less time to manage infrastructure.
Increase in productivity with Nutanix files.
Increased RPO using native Nutanix snapshots.

Alternatives Considered

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)

Dave Jung

internal it in Information Technology at FM (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 wanted to standardize and be equipped to scale out when future mergers happened. We managed with the standard Hyper visor as a individual company but as we acquired more companies it became unmanageable and the cost savings with this made ROI sense.

Pros

single access point
utilized excising resources to maximize usage
train up is steep but once they get it it's a breeze

Cons

It could have been a for use but the initial integrations we hit a few bumps but that could be the consultant that were provided

Return on Investment

Added staff to other areas as cross training allowed to have fewer dedicated folks for VM infrastructure
better resourcing of current hardware

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HPE SimpliVity

Other Software Used

Jamf Now, Lifecycle Manager by ScalePad, N-able Take Control

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