Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs VMware Cloud Foundation comparison

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs. VMware Cloud Foundation

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

ROI

Sentiment score

6.8

Users expect significant ROI from Nutanix Cloud Clusters, citing cost savings, boosted productivity, enhanced management, and future long-term savings.

Sentiment score

5.7

VMware Cloud Foundation promises future returns with potential savings, despite high costs, through increased efficiency and stability.

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).

Venu Karate

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%.

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Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

VMware Cloud Foundation allows cost and time savings by quickly deploying infrastructure requests and integrating automatic ticketing and backup services.

Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank

In terms of ROI, although VMware Cloud Foundation is expensive, it saves time in most cases, which indirectly saves costs for users.

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Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.

Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.4

Nutanix Cloud Clusters support is praised for expertise and efficiency, though some note response times could improve.

Sentiment score

7.0

VMware Cloud Foundation's support is generally responsive and professional, but some users seek improvements in speed and issue resolution.

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.

ScottMorgan

Director at Lightpath

They're good and help us whenever we need them.

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Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

There are times when support is unclear, and even VMware support personnel may lack familiarity with certain parts, causing difficulties.

Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.

Based on my nine years of experience with VMware, I would evaluate their technical support as effective.

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VMware Administrator at Infosys

The technical support from VMware Cloud Foundation deserves a nine out of ten rating.

MONICA I.

Cyber Security Analyst at Amdari

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Nutanix Cloud Clusters offers efficient scalability, supporting easy expansion and addressing diverse enterprise workload requirements despite configuration challenges.

Sentiment score

7.8

VMware Cloud Foundation offers excellent scalability, adaptable for various businesses, though dependent on licensing and hardware configurations.

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.

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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.

ShyamikaThamel

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.

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Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

When more hosts are added, performance goes slow.

Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems

VMware Cloud Foundation supports scalability and company growth.

Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank

VMware Cloud Foundation is quite scalable, receiving a rating of eight and a half to nine out of ten.

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Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Cloud Clusters are highly reliable, offer strong performance and support, and are praised for uptime and self-healing.

Sentiment score

7.7

VMware Cloud Foundation is stable and reliable, with high performance and minimal issues, despite some migration complexities.

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.

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Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

I have found Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to be stable and reliable.

Venu Karate

Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

The stability of VMware Cloud Foundation is very high.

Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems

If one component fails to operate in a timely manner, the entire infrastructure can go down because everything is interconnected.

Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.

I am currently satisfied with the stability of VMware Cloud Foundation, though having started only two to three months ago, I am still in the monitoring phase.

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VMware Administrator at Infosys

Room For Improvement

Nutanix Cloud Clusters needs better pricing, interfaces, scalability, and enhanced tools for setup, integration, and cross-platform compatibility.

VMware Cloud Foundation requires improved integration, security, user-friendly features, better pricing, and enhanced support, especially post-Broadcom acquisition.

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.

Venu Karate

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.

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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.

Bill Illis

Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC

VMware Broadcom needs to include auto resource allocation at the VM levels.

Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems

The maintenance cost has increased significantly, especially after Broadcom acquired VMware, with a shift from socket-based licensing to core-based licensing.

Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank

Each user needs deep knowledge of every aspect of virtualization.

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Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.

Setup Cost

Nutanix Cloud Clusters pricing is costly but fair, with migration challenges, license portability, and expense optimization benefits.

VMware Cloud Foundation is costly but valued for comprehensive features, despite post-acquisition price hikes; bundles offer savings.

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.

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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.

Bill Illis

Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC

The cost has become very high, especially after Broadcom's acquisition, altering the licensing model to a more expensive core-based system.

Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank

When comparing prices of both clouds, AWS is cheaper because they offer a free section for practice.

MONICA I.

Cyber Security Analyst at Amdari

The price is quite higher than some other vendors.

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Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems

Valuable Features

Nutanix Cloud Clusters provide efficient management, scalability, cost optimization, and seamless integration across hybrid environments, enhancing disaster recovery.

VMware Cloud Foundation offers scalable automation, disaster recovery, and seamless management, enhancing operational efficiency and infrastructure modernization.

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.

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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).

ScottMorgan

Director at Lightpath

The solution now offers auto-deployment of VMs.

VMware Administrator at Infosys

All features of VMware Cloud Foundation are valuable to us, as it covers every industry standard protocol and requirement protocol.

Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems

VMware Cloud Foundation allows for extensive customization, aligning with our customer requirements.

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Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank

Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

8th

Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (9th)

VMware Cloud Foundation

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

9th

Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category, the mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is 9.4%, down from 14.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Foundation is 18.3%, down from 23.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)	9.4%
VMware Cloud Foundation	18.3%
Other	72.3%

Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

Featured Reviews

Enables us to grow at the speed of business and be ready for whatever is coming

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

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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There is progress in performance and stability, but further advancements are needed for end-user satisfaction

VMware Administrator at Infosys

VMware Cloud Foundation's best features include its advanced capabilities, security purposes, and performance levels. The solution offers efficient licensing options. Previously, vSphere essential was available, but now it has moved to VMware Cloud Foundation 8.0. It includes advanced features such as lifecycle manager, patching level, and cluster level patching options. The solution now offers auto-deployment of VMs. Previously, I had to use the content library, right-click, and create VMs manually. With VMware Cloud Foundation, auto-deployment is possible by simply right-clicking and assigning a specific DHCP IP, enabling physical to vCenter level communication for automatic VM deployment. The workload portability feature in VMware Cloud Foundation provides good workload balance. For instance, in a cluster level with four to five ESXi hosts, each host has minimum resources allocated for CPU and memory, resulting in significantly reduced utilization at the VMware Cloud Foundation level.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

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...

What do you like most about VMware Cloud Foundation?

VMware Cloud Foundation provides us with the vSphere dashboard through which we can manage, monitor, schedule, and spin up your virtual machines. We can manage, monitor, and get reports of your inf...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Foundation?

The price for VMware Cloud Foundation is not cheap, as the market is competitive with AWS cloud. When comparing prices of both clouds, AWS is cheaper because they offer a free section for practice....

What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Foundation?

In VMware Cloud Foundation, areas that have room for improvement include the experience between VMware Cloud Foundation and the cloud. I prefer working with the cloud due to my study with the archi...

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Also Known As

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Overview

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) provide scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure management across cloud and on-premises environments. With features like data portability and ease of setup, NC2 enables seamless migration without application refactoring.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) supports businesses in managing hybrid IT environments, enhancing disaster recovery, and optimizing workloads. Users value NC2 for its unified management platform and redundancy features, facilitating cloud migration and integration with major cloud providers. Challenges include pricing and initial setup complexity, as well as feature parity between different cloud services.

What are the key features of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?

Scalability: Easily scales resources to meet business demands.
Cost Management: Controls and reduces cloud-related expenses.
Data Portability: Ensures seamless migration between environments.
Unified Management: Manages both cloud and on-premises platforms from one place.
Integration: Connects efficiently with multiple cloud providers.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Redundancy: Enhances disaster recovery capabilities and operational resilience.
License Portability: Simplifies license management across different environments.
Optimized Workloads: Maintains performance and reduces unnecessary costs.
Efficient Setup: Simplifies initial adjustments, ensuring quick deployment.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) find application in industries requiring reliable infrastructure management, like finance and healthcare, to safeguard critical systems. Organizations leverage NC2 for virtual desktops, application modernization, and smooth transition to cloud operations, improving data security and replication processes.

Nutanix

VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to deploy and run a hybrid cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and security) and cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

The Home Depot, JetBlue, Hyundai, ShiftLeft

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