Nutanix Prism vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

The compared Nutanix and Progress Software solutions aren't in the same category. Nutanix is ranked #5 in VM , with an average rating of 8.8, and holds a 9.7% mindshare in the category. Progress Software is ranked #26 in NMS , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Nutanix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

Nutanix Prism

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98% willing to recommend

WhatsUp Gold

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85% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Nutanix Prism and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Virtualization Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Nutanix Prism vs. WhatsUp Gold Report (Updated: July 2020).

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Nutanix Prism vs. WhatsUp Gold

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Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Prism

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (5th), Data Center Infrastructure Management (6th)

WhatsUp Gold

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (29th), Network Monitoring Software (26th), Server Monitoring (16th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (24th), Configuration Management (19th), Log Management (32nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (23rd), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (10th)

Mindshare comparison

Nutanix Prism and WhatsUp Gold aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Nutanix Prism is designed for Virtualization Management Tools and holds a mindshare of 9.7%, down 15.2% compared to last year.
WhatsUp Gold, on the other hand, focuses on Network Monitoring Software, holds 2.0% mindshare, up 1.2% since last year.

Virtualization Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nutanix Prism	9.7%
VMware Aria Operations	26.0%
IBM Turbonomic	12.6%
Other	51.699999999999996%

Virtualization Management Tools

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
WhatsUp Gold	2.0%
Zabbix	5.7%
SolarWinds NPM	3.4%
Other	88.9%

Network Monitoring Software

Featured Reviews

Usha Rani

Director at Eglobe infra solutions

Provides comprehensive management with AI-driven insights and predictive analytics for seamless IT operations

The major improvement recommended for Nutanix Prism is more multi-cloud cost optimization. It shows performance and usage but is limited in detailed cross-cloud cost analysis. Improvement is needed for deeper FinOps-style ML insights that compare costs between on-premise, AWS, Azure, etc. Enhancements for the current mobile version of Prism are necessary as its functions are limited. Full mobile native control with real-time alerts and AI suggestions are required for one-click actions. Better integration with third-party tools and predictive maintenance for hardware is needed; currently, the focus is on VM and storage, not hardware life cycle. Predictions for node-level hardware failures or SSD wear-out, fan sensor alerts in advance are essential improvements, as is AI-based security threat detection focusing on unusual login patterns such as ransomware behavior or privilege escalations.

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Erik Cheng

Technical Manager at Quan Hung Gourmet

Efficient monitoring with detailed customization, yet complexity remains

The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless. I have used the automated device discovery with this topology feature. The interactive map feature helps me manage the topology because sometimes we cannot draw the topology correctly, so we need to manually edit the connections. The alerting system is very tunable and customizable, but it's a little complicated to use. Many customers cannot manage it by themselves and need support from us, the provider. We always use the dashboards in the SOC, where we constantly display a dashboard or multiple dashboards. This allows us to know immediately if the connection or bandwidth is full or if the connection is broken.

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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

"You can go directly to the Prism dashboard and it gives you all the information. It's easy to use. I have worked on other platforms but the single pane of glass that Prism has is very helpful for seeing what's going on in your environment: usage, storage, capacity, and behavior."

"The pricing is very good if you compare it to other competitors."

"The ability to do snapshots is fantastic. It does a great job. Not only do snapshots work great, but you can take a snapshot on the fly. The snapshot takes a second to complete. You can then make a change and test it out to see if it works. If you have any problem, just roll it right back."

"Nutanix Prism is mainly used for our daily operations, similar to VMware."

"I am very satisfied with the technical support."

"Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation."

"Everything is available within one console."

"It is stable and reliable."

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"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."

"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."

"The documentation is very good."

"The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless."

"Our local support team provides excellent service."

"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."

"The user interface is good enough."

"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."

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Cons

"Regarding Nutanix Prism's single pane overview, the limitation is that you cannot troubleshoot all errors from Prism Central; you sometimes need to log into the CLI to change settings such as the IP address of the CVM in the AHV."

"The interface is good, but it needs improvements. There are a lot of functions that are only available in the CLI. In addition, some of the hardware components could be improved. We already had some trouble with disks."

"It would be ideal if there was more of a community around the solution so that it would be easier to learn things about the solution from other users."

"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."

"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."

"The solution does not support creating hybrid disc clusters."

"The cost is a negative aspect."

"The lifecycle management and upgrade procedure should be automated."

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"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."

"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."

"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."

"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."

"I might like to see a better interface in the future."

"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."

"The technical support does not bother to respond."

"Regional product team support is not very good."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved."

"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."

"Microsoft Hyper-V is free, whereas Nutanix isn't. Nutanix isn't so expensive. VMware is more expensive than Nutanix, but with VMware, there aren't many licenses, whereas, in the case of Nutanix, we need to upgrade the license periodically. It could be every three years or five years. It depends on your license. There are no costs in addition to the licensing fee."

"Nutanix Prism is quite an expensive solution compared to VMware."

"As far as pricing goes, it's competitive for what you get. There are probably less expensive hyper-converged solutions, but I don't think they're as mature or have the feature set that we get with Nutanix."

"The pricing is comparable to other software initiatives."

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

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"There is a license needed to use WhatsUp Gold."

"The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."

"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."

"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."

"This is a well priced solution."

"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."

"The tool's price is reasonable. WhatsUp Gold is cheaper than SolarWinds."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

24%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	25
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	28

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

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?

I hear that Nutanix Prism is more expensive than others, but as a technical person, I don't know the details about the pricing aspect.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?

Regarding Nutanix Prism's single pane overview, the limitation is that you cannot troubleshoot all errors from Prism Central; you sometimes need to log into the CLI to change settings such as the I...

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What do you like most about WhatsUp Gold?

The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one l...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

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What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

It would be great if WhatsUp Gold could add features that simplify management with AI, as it is currently too complicated to manage.

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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.

Nutanix

Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.

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Sample Customers

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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