Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Reviews

• Prism 
• One-Click

Now, we can worry less about the technology and focus on other business value initiatives.

A fantastic product that could spend a bit more time in QA between releases.

Five years.

None.

Compatibility issue with Nutanix and Zerto.

None.

Customer Service:

10 out of 10.

Technical Support:

10 out of 10.

We switched from a legacy 3-2-1 solution to HCI due to its ease of use and scalability.

Very straightforward; no issues.

We implemented through a vendor team, although the setup was so easy that we could have handled the process in-house.

We have realized a 3:1 ROI.

The upfront cost can be higher than traditional solutions, but the ROI can be quickly realized for most organizations.

SimpliVity and Dell EqualLogic.

A great product from a great company with world class support.

Nutanix Prism.

Nutanix provides the best migration to cloud platform. It has helped our company aggregate most of our workloads into a centralized platform improving the efficiency for the IT team and infrastructure resources. Throughout the journey, Nutanix provides the best support that we have ever had, from solution providers and vendors, adding big value to our operations and support our SLAs with our customers.

We have achieved great stability and scalability with Nutanix. We are currently running Hyper-V in Nutanix. After setting it up, we are very happy with the provisioning of new VMs as we do not need to worry about space requirements.

Three years.

Implementation was a breeze.

Initially, we had some issues with the deployment and it was resolved in future updates by the great technical support from Nutanix.

We have not faced any issues with scalability. It is one of the best features.

An eight out of 10.

An eight out of 10.

Not applicable.

Initial setup was little bit troublesome, but we received very good technical support from Nutanix

Not applicable.

It really is worth the price you spend.

No.

• Single pane of glass view for all components.
• Excellent after-sales support.
• Easy updates and upgrades.

Reduced hours wasted on troubleshooting failed updates.

• Uptime
• HA
• Redundancy
• Disaster Recover (DR)

Three years.

None, except when they sent an engineer who was still new.

None.

None. It scales seemlessly. The hardest part is negotiating for the budget to do so.

The customer service is excellent.

The technical support is excellent.

3-tier infrastructure. We switched due to the complexities of multiple vendors with multiple points to blame.

It was straightforward. We used their professional services to assist with the deployment.

We used both an in-house team and a vendor team.

Not applicable.

The after-sales support is amazing and worth investing in.

None.

We have used Nutanix for three years now and have scaled and upgraded four clusters in that time with no issues.

Hypervisor-agnostic: I can use a VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have one. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in a Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything that I need without spend more money on licenses.

Hyper-convergence makes the whole datacenter simpler. I don’t need to manage servers, SAN, and storage as I used to, but instead, manage everything from one simple and complete dashboard. I can manage my resources to get any information I need to monitor and scale.

For the past three years.

No.

Sometimes, I had to install it twice to place the solution. Errors in the middle of installation require you retry, then it goes well. Other than that, it is very simple and does not requires deep knowledge.

No.

An eight out of 10.

We had very good technical support from Nutanix during the implementation and post implementation.

I worked with Dell EMC VxRail, but this product is tied with VMware ESXi which requires expensive licenses. It is also a great solution if you have already those licenses. VxRail has a limit in scalability (64) in the 3.5 version.

I know Nutanix and VxRail have similar prices and licenses. Nutanix is a go ahead if AHV is used as the hypervisor because it is already embedded in the price.

I have some customers who tried Cisco HyperFlex and HPE HC380 instead of VMware vSAN. None of these were so attractive as Nutanix when they compared hypervisor flexibility, scalability, and support.

• Storage snapshots and replication
• One-Click upgrades

I can now do upgrades during work hours with One-Click upgrades. I click an upgrade and walk away. I have never had an issue.

Lowering the replication window.

Two years.

Deployment was less than half a day for eight nodes.

Yes, there was a bug with the new Intel chipset, but working with support, they quickly were able to issue an updated BIOS. Even with this issue, we had no downtime

None, scaling up is easy with Nutanix.

10 out of 10. We have been impressed with their level of service during any case we have had to open.

10 out of 10. We have been impressed with their level of service during any case we have had to open.

I have used UCS with NetApp in the past. Nutanix makes keeping things up-to-date much easier.

It is very straightforward, two clusters in four hours.

We used a vendor team. Even though it was their first deployment in production at the time, they were on point!

Pricing is above average, but it is worth it.

IBM, UCS, and NetApp.

• Overall performance of the platform
• Scalability
• Ease of implementation
• Management GUI Prism

On storage side, these features are very useful:

• Deduplication
• Compression
• Erasure coding
• Snapshots
• Asynchronous replication.

The One-Click upgrades are awesome and work well.

The standardized system check using NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) performs over 150 checks to determine potential issues.

AFS and ABS are just great!!

Green datacenter: Significant reduction in time provisioning as well as daily administration and management activities.

Hyper-converged: Storage, compute, and network are all in a single dashboard.

• More 10GB physical ports
• CVM resource requirement/consumption

Four years.

Nutanix Professional Services personnel are awesome. They make deployment seem so easy.

Not yet.

Scalability is very flexible as far as a compute or storage need is concerned.

Customer service personnel are very knowledgeable and work real hard to determine the root cause and provide a permanent solution, not a band aid approach.

A nine out of a possible 10.

I switched from my previous solution to Nutanix, because this is my first hyper-converged solution.

Very straightforward.

We implemented through Nutanix Professional Services.

ROI was seen as soon as we went live with the system. it has lower hardware maintenance costs and less power consumption,

Pricing and licensing are definitely not cheap, but not bad either.

SimpliVity and FlashStack.

Processes that used to take hours to complete have been drastically improved due to the nature of Nutanix. Data locality means things complete faster and our users now have more time to complete their work rather than having to wait for a certain job to finish before they can continue on.

• One-Click upgrades
• Software defined storage
• The capacity savings

One click upgrades are an absolute godsend. Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy. Previously, we had to schedule downtime to perform upgrades on our infrastructure and that quickly becomes painful and time consuming.

Because the entire Nutanix system is contained in a VM, we don't have to reboot physical hosts to apply patches. It's just a restart of a guest VM and we're off. This also brings amazing space saving capabilities (given that it's software-defined) across the hot and cold tiers by way of compression, deduplication, and erasure coding.

Given all the amazing features, there is room for improvement around the support ability of different hypervisors. Sure, Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity. If you want all the benefits of Nutanix, you need to be on AHV. For some businesses, that's just not an option. I find we miss out on some of the great features due to being on ESX.

No issues at all with stability.

No.

Customer Service:

This is where my experience varies. Previously, I had deployed Nutanix with Dell hardware, and currently, I have deployed Nutanix on Nutanix hardware.

Customer support through Nutanix is excellent. Regardless of the level of priority, I usually hear back from Nutanix support in less than three hours from when I submit a support request.

With Dell kits, you have to call Dell support first who then liaise with Nutanix support. So, there is a bit of a breakdown and resolution that takes a little longer because you don't have direct access to Nutanix support.

Technical Support:

Again, my experience varies.

Nutanix support, amazing. I can't fault them. They know the product and can resolve your issues fast.

Dell support, not as great. Mainly because they aren't Nutanix employees. It's because of this that they aren't as knowledgeable and have to hand off to Nutanix support for more complex issues.

In both organisations where I worked, which migrated to Nutanix, we were on traditional 3-tier architecture. We switched over to Nutanix for the ease of management, scalability, and performance gains. In both organisations, we were on aging hardware and it needed to be refreshed.

It is very straightforward. The deployment process is extremely easy thanks to the 'foundation' process. A simple WebUI that guides you through the deployment process and imaging of your new nodes.

Both implementations were done by me. With the ease of deployment, I didn't feel it necessary to engage a vendor.

I haven't calculated it yet.

While cost may seem higher than your traditional 3-tier architecture, you need to look at the bigger picture. You're not just buying hardware here. You're buying a complete environment that not only is super-fast to deploy, it's amazingly easy to manage. I find that I'm spending less time managing my infrastructure and more time listening to the businesses needs and tailoring our infrastructure to their needs.

We looked at SimpliVity and VMware vSAN.