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Morpheus vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.4
Morpheus improves cloud efficiency, reducing provisioning time by 40-50% and manpower by 30-40%, achieving ROI within 12 months.
Sentiment score
6.8
Users expect significant ROI from Nutanix Cloud Clusters, citing cost savings, boosted productivity, enhanced management, and future long-term savings.
Morpheus return on investment was usually realized within 6 to 12 months.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
In time, it has proven beneficial because we no longer have to have hands-on management of a server environment; really, one engineer does it.
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
In comparison, five years ago, we purchased 30 nodes on-prem, and now we are only using six nodes in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).
Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
I would say our total cost of ownership has been reduced by approximately 30% to 50%.
Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
Morpheus support is praised for responsiveness and technical assistance, but smaller users face accessibility issues and occasional communication barriers.
Sentiment score
7.4
Nutanix Cloud Clusters support is praised for expertise and efficiency, though some note response times could improve.
In the past, if we required any support from a configuration standpoint or if anything broke, we used to get really quick and easy customer support.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The people I get are intelligent and know how to fix the issue the first time I call them, so it's been great.
Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines
The customer service and technical support have been very helpful; they jump on calls with us and stay engaged until any issues are resolved.
Director at Lightpath
They're good and help us whenever we need them.
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Morpheus offers scalable solutions with modular distribution, supporting easy upscaling, though some find challenges with infrastructure dependencies.
Sentiment score
7.6
Nutanix Cloud Clusters offers efficient scalability, supporting easy expansion and addressing diverse enterprise workload requirements despite configuration challenges.
We can start with one node and extend to three nodes as needed.
Morpheus specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Morpheus's scalability is impressive as it scales very well for hundreds of cloud accounts and thousands of workloads, especially in a multi-tenant MSP operations standpoint.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
During builds, it was very scalable, and adding or removing nodes was far quicker than if we were to do that on-prem in our own data center.
Virtualization engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
In the cloud clusters, we can instantly request a host-level host to add to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), and it will automatically expand.
Associate Tech Specialists at Seatrium
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) scales very effectively with the growing needs of my company, and it does so very fast and quickly.
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Morpheus shows strong stability and performance, though high memory usage and complex abstraction layers present challenges.
Sentiment score
7.8
Nutanix Cloud Clusters are highly reliable, offer strong performance and support, and are praised for uptime and self-healing.
Morpheus is stable, and I can confirm that the platform is quite stable across different clouds, business units, and large environments.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is very reliable with 99.99% uptime.
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
The stability and reliability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are commendable.
Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines
I have found Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to be stable and reliable.
Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Morpheus needs better user-friendliness, documentation, and customization, along with improved integrations, GUI, bug fixes, and advanced features.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters needs better pricing, interfaces, scalability, and enhanced tools for setup, integration, and cross-platform compatibility.
It would be good to have more blueprint examples which are comprehensive so that users can create complex blueprints and elaborated workflows.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I think that adding artificial intelligence or a large language model inside Morpheus would be very useful for clients.
Morpheus specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The one thing that stands out is the costing, especially if you check the NCM module, where you see the cost of the VM, which is defined by the customer rather than how the calculations work if that VM is a reserved instance.
Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
My suggestion would be getting up to speed on ransomware and evolving, as attackers are always one step ahead of what's out there.
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
Some features that people say Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) lacks could be simplified to make it easier, such as a single pane of glass, and getting more into Google Cloud would be very helpful for our team as we're working on GCP interfaces.
Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC
 

Setup Cost

Morpheus offers flexible, cost-efficient pricing for enterprise buyers, scalable with virtual machines but may escalate with high usage.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters pricing is costly but fair, with migration challenges, license portability, and expense optimization benefits.
Our partners at Nutanix did work with us recently and reduced a huge licensing cost for us.
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
For us, the pricing and costs have been fair.
Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines
When working with my sales representatives, everything is included, they've been very helpful, and it's been within our price range for the most part.
Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC
 

Valuable Features

Morpheus offers hybrid cloud management with automation, centralized control, and seamless integration, enhancing accessibility and flexibility with strong support.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters provide efficient management, scalability, cost optimization, and seamless integration across hybrid environments, enhancing disaster recovery.
The service catalog stands out for me because it allows me to prepare or develop something for a client to automate or clearly prepare forms for a client who may not be familiar with more specific details of the product, such as the provision of virtual machines.
Morpheus specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The multi-cloud abstraction layer is definitely one of the best because there is a single pane of glass for all the different cloud providers.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
We're not limited based on the hardware that we have. We allow ourselves room for growth, and we can literally grow from today to tomorrow to ensure that we're handling our growth.
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
We used to have a light-for-light kind of build-out in another data center in a different location. Now, we can pare that down to just a couple of nodes and know that we can burst it out when we need to.
Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines
Nutanix's license portability is a very valuable tool for us because we were building our own data center, so we've bought on-prem licenses and then utilize that for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).
Director at Lightpath
 

Categories and Ranking

Morpheus
Ranking in Cloud Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
Ranking in Cloud Management
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (6th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Morpheus is 4.4%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Morpheus4.4%
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)1.2%
Other94.4%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Unified cloud governance has reduced provisioning time and simplifies multi-tenant operations
Morpheus offers several best features. The multi-cloud abstraction layer is definitely one of the best because there is a single pane of glass for all the different cloud providers. You don't need separate tooling in place. Morpheus is an MSP-friendly platform where we can have multi-tenancy, role-based access control, metering, chargeback, and showback. The user interface of the application is really good. Tenants can easily log in and see their specific environment. We can create white labeling for each of the VMs or deployments. The deployments of VMs are made really easy, and the user interface is appreciated by all new users who log into the platform and see the ease of provisioning a new virtual machine with a predefined template. Out of those features, the one that has had the biggest impact for my team and clients is, from the MSP perspective, definitely the most helpful because, as an MSP ourselves, we handle multiple end customers and clients. Our teams, because they handle multiple customers, didn't have to switch from one platform to another. They could leverage Morpheus and manage their end customers. The second aspect I would point out is the governance and policy engine functionality, where we could leverage quotas, put in a tagging strategy, and security policies in the environment. That really helped. Third, it also helped to decrease manual workflow because we had created different workflows and policies which were all automated. So it highly reduced the day-to-day activities which our operations teams used to conduct. Morpheus has positively impacted my organization by really helping to reduce provisioning times from days to minutes, which is one of the value-adds we also tell to our customers. Second, it has allowed our MSP teams to compartmentalize the tenants in a secure fashion. Third, it has decreased all manual workflow overhead which our operations team used to feel. Morpheus policy enforcement aspect has been really helpful because it has helped lower operational risk. Finally, it enables self-service workflow without sacrificing control over the different environments.
JY
Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank
Enables us to grow at the speed of business and be ready for whatever is coming
What I admire most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is its scalability; that option that everybody seems to eventually go to is cloud, and we're ready for that when we decide. This scalability feature has improved my company because we can grow at the speed of business, and that's very important. We're not limited by the hardware that we have. We allow ourselves room for growth, and we can literally grow from today to tomorrow to ensure that we're handling our growth. The scalability is critical for us, especially in the banking industry, where we just get bigger every year.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
University
6%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Morpheus?
The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Morpheus?
We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.
What needs improvement with Morpheus?
Morpheus can be improved, particularly from an analytics standpoint. The cost insight feature is really good, but I think advanced FinOps features could be a bit stronger. I would like to add more ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?
I'm not familiar with the contracts, but I thought the process was pretty seamless. Licensing for the Nutanix part was the same as licensing something on-prem, and since it runs on bare metal EC2, ...
What needs improvement with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?
From an improvement perspective, I cannot see anything at this point because I used those Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) at that moment, but I am currently not using it. The pricing could be lower.
What is your primary use case for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?
I use the workload migration feature between clouds, such as migrating from VMware to Nutanix. I use Nutanix Move to migrate workloads from Nutanix Move. However, in some cases with our failover cl...
 

Also Known As

Morpheus Cloud Management Platform, Morpheus CMP
Nutanix Clusters
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Morpheus CMP, mcdonalds, blackrock, HSBC, astrazeneca, arris, WGU, GBG, pennstate, beyondtrust
The Home Depot, JetBlue, Hyundai, ShiftLeft
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