Nutanix Prism vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

The compared Nutanix and VMware solutions aren't in the same category. Nutanix is ranked #5 in VM , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 13.9% mindshare in the category. VMware is ranked #41 in IM , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Nutanix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

Nutanix Prism

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98% willing to recommend

vRealize Network Insight

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89% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Nutanix Prism and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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

Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Prism

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (5th), Data Center Infrastructure Management (3rd)

vRealize Network Insight

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (38th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (41st)

Mindshare comparison

Nutanix Prism and vRealize Network Insight aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Nutanix Prism is designed for Virtualization Management Tools and holds a mindshare of 13.9%, up 12.9% compared to last year.
vRealize Network Insight, on the other hand, focuses on IT Infrastructure Monitoring, holds 0.5% mindshare, down 0.6% since last year.

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Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

Efficiently manage virtual machines with robust disaster recovery

Nutanix Prism is mainly used for our daily operations, similar to VMware. Despite the lack of extraordinary features, it efficiently manages our daily operations now that we are managing our VMs. One of the most useful features is the disaster recovery setup, which includes two clusters, one for our production server and another for our recovery site.

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NiteshKumar1

Principle consultant at Infosys

The tool's configuration is easy and artifacts are easily accessible through professional services and the web

The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Nutanix Prism is very simple to use compared to other products. I have tried a number of tools, including VMware ESXi. Nutanix Prism is much simpler to use and we feel data transfers in it are very fast."

"I don't know how to explain how much time and effort switching to Nutanix HCI has saved us. It's 80 percent more time-efficient and convenient than having to use multiple interfaces to deal with storage and compute in our hypervisor."

"In the six years we have been using Nutanix Prism, we have never had a problem with stability."

"The auto-update option is a valuable feature for us."

"Has a user-friendly UI with a centralized console."

"The automation part for Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) is great."

"Prism provides us with insights and the ability to access all the sub-components of Nutanix's hyperconverged platform."

"Nutanix support is excellent, and their response time is extremely fast."

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"The initial was straightforward. You can have it up and running in one hour."

"It has really tightened down the security. That was something that we were lacking. It has also given us deep visibility into our network. We can really get down and see all of the traffic within the data center, between the VMs, between the applications, database servers, other application servers, web servers. We can identify everything that is communicating, and we can see it all on one product."

"It's very user-friendly in the sense that the querying is just regular language like you and I speak or write. You don't need to know any SQL-query type of language to be able to get what you want out of it."

"The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable."

"I find it user-friendly and intuitive. With the GUI interface that we do use on a regular basis, it's easy to navigate, it's easy to see, easy to query. We get reports. It's easy to use."

"It's user-friendly. It's similar to the GUI that most VMware products are moving to, and the consistency across those makes it easy to switch from one product to another. Also, the search bar at the top is plain text and it helps you, it guides you along with your search query, so that helps. The first day you're in there you can start building actual queries."

"The most valuable feature for me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."

"Also, the ability to troubleshoot all the way across the NSX part of it to the physical and actually watch the packets go through and then see where the bottleneck is or where the interruption is. We run queries on the network flows within the application to find where they are in it and it graphically tells us how the packets are actually going through the system."

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Cons

"There are some things that you can only do via the command line. Over the years that I've been using Nutanix, they've slowly integrated those into Prism, but they're still trying to catch up with a solution that has been around longer, like VMware."

"Nutanix is a great product, but I won't say it is a data center product. If it could leverage or work with non-Nutanix infrastructure, it would be a total data center solution. Right now, with Prism Central, we can only manage Nutanix clusters."

"Nutanix Prism does not have a built-in backup tool."

"The three clusters we have at our remote offices are just one-node clusters. If there were an easier way to upgrade items such as the BIOS, SATA drives, the BMC, et cetera, on those, that would be helpful."

"Nutanix Prism can be more stable because it's not as stable as VMware."

"The main area where an improvement could be made would be the pricing."

"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly. The dashboard and configuration should be much easier to use."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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"After Broadcom acquired VMware, I would rate their support at five or less in many cases. It's difficult to find necessary documentation, open tickets, and get support."

"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."

"The only real improvement they can make is to add more third-party vendors into the environment, mostly switch manufacturers, because it's really limited to Cisco equipment and there are a lot of companies out there other than Cisco."

"If it had some kind of plugins with vSphere, more effective plugins with Horizon View or other VMWare products, if it had interconnectivity, I think it would be more effective than it is today."

"The virtual appliance has rebooted."

"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."

"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."

"vRNI needs more remediation where it hooks into NSX."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is one factor that could be better. The cluster licensing and how it works is another."

"It's expensive in comparison to the rest of our infrastructure. But the quality is there."

"I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap."

"This product is cheaper than using VMware."

"I consider it a worthwhile investment."

"Nutanix have bundles for pricing. On a single bundle, we get everything including vSAN or VMware and there are no additional costs. It is just a single license that is needed."

"Prism is cheaper compared to competitors like Cisco HyperFlex or HP vSAN."

"The good thing about Nutanix Prism is that we don't have to pay for a hypervisor, but their licensing cost is a little bit on the high side."

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"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."

"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

27%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nutanix Prism?

Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?

At first, the cost seemed heavy, but over time, its cost-effectiveness became evident.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?

The lifecycle management and upgrade procedure should be automated. With a single click, all critical upgrades should be completed. Additionally, the presales and marketing team should inform clien...

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What do you like most about vRealize Network Insight?

The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?

Broadcom is known for increasing product prices, making them expensive compared to what people used to pay. I liken the subscription model to not truly owning what you pay for.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Right now, I do not see a specific area for improvement. My main concern is understanding the intentions of Broadcom, which has acquired VMware. Broadcom should improve by going back to what was wo...

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Overview

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

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VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

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Sample Customers

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet

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