Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Reviews

Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use and there are no hardware limitations.

You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware.

Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better.

In an upcoming release, it would be a benefit to have live updates.

I have been using Nutanix Acropolis AOS for approximately three years.

The stability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is good. It has high availability.

The solution can scale well.

The technical support was great they were very helpful.

I would rate the technical support a five out of five.

The installation is simple.

I would rate the initial setup a four out of five.

Nutanix Acropolis AOS price includes no additional costs for features.

I rate Nutanix Acropolis AOS an eight out of ten.

Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent.

I feel like the flow chart and the automated processes have some room for improvement. They're nearly there, and the rest is fine. They've improved a lot over the past few years. 

I've used Acropolis AOS daily for the past three years.

Acropolis AOS is highly stable.

Acropolis AOS is scalable. 

We've seen a return on investment. Hundred percent.

I would rate Acropolis AOS 9.5 out of 10. 

We're looking for a solution that integrates with cloud technologies, so we want to adopt a Nutanix service.

Acropolis could help us build a cloud environment for our company.

We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution.

We've been trying out Acropolis for about two weeks to a month, so I'm not an expert.

It has been stable so far.

During our trial, we have 30 users, but we plan to implement for around 300 or so in the future.

I had a good experience last time I contacted Nutanix support. 

My tech team handled the setup so I can't comment on that, but it took about a week. Maybe five staff members would be enough for deployment and maintenance.

The license for Acropolis is monthly.

I rate Acropolis AOS eight out of 10. 

Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability.

I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it.

I've been using Acropolis for more than five years.

I haven't seen any stability issues.

Setting up Acropolis is straightforward.

SonicWall is more expensive than some competing solutions like VxRail and vSAN. That's its main disadvantage

I rate Nutanix Acropolis AOS 10 out of 10. I think it's a perfect solution. I can't think of any improvements that could be implemented or disadvantages. My advice is to buy Acropolis, not vSan.

Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform.

In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS.

I have used Nutanix Acropolis AOS for approximately six years.

The scalability is very easy. You plug in another node and that's it.

The support provided for Nutanix Acropolis AOS is very good. They know the products well, if you have any error on a cluster or any problem with workloads on Nutanix, the engineer's support is great.

The initial setup was very simple. You only need to deploy the clusters and Nutanix configures all the clusters. In one day we were in production. When comparing the process to the VMware solution, it is less complex.

The solution could be a little less expensive.

If you want to run Nutanix on Windows, you have to pay for a license and if you want to have an Oracle Database, you have to pay a license for Oracle.

With the simplicity of the deployment and the one-click operations over the cluster, Nutanix Acropolis AOS is a good solution. You have to have cloud experience.

I rate Nutanix Acropolis AOS a ten out of ten.

We are a managed service provider (MSP) using Acropolis AOS to host our customers' servers and data.

Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price.

We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging.

I've been looking forward to Layer 3 networking, which Nutanix is expected to add to Acropolis soon. When I think of a feature I would like to implement, I check the Nutanix site to see if it's coming. Layer 3 networking is a release candidate right now. It's on the roadmap already. They're working on all of the features that I want.

Acropolis is stable.

Acropolis is scalable. We are increasing the usage every day, and we are planning to purchase a couple of nodes more soon. We have maybe 300 virtual machines and 30 customers.

Nutanix support is good. We contact support when we have any problems, and they quickly put us in touch with the senior technicians.

We switched to Acropolis from an older Hyper-V cluster. It was old — not outdated per se — but it lagged in terms of feature sets like hosting containerized solutions and things like that. Acropolis gave us a solution that improved a lot of areas. 

For example, they have built-in firewalls for the services if we want to use them. We use a different solution for firewalling our customer environment, but I would say that the feature sets are developing rapidly. They come out with new features every year, and it feels like they are on top of developing new things to implement in Acropolis.

Deploying Acropolis was quite easy. It took a little bit of light tinkering to get everything to work with the VLANs and isolate all the networks in the beginning. I and my colleague went into our data center and put everything into place then configured everything, so it was straightforward. Also, you only need one person to maintain these nodes. 

I rate Acropolis AOS eight out of 10. If someone is thinking of implementing Acropolis, it's essential to read the documentation and use any technical resources you can use with Nutanix before deploying it. They need to know what they're doing before deploying a Nutanix solution. Before deploying, I would suggest reading all the documentation and talking to a Nutanix expert. Everything needs to be correct when deploying it because it's harder to adjust everything after.

I primarily use Nutanix Acropolis for anything that I can't engineer in the environment, such as redundancy between the database servers and the clustering. 

This solution is deployed on-premises. 

Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable. 

The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier. 

I have been using this solution for five or six years. 

This solution is very stable. 

This solution is scalable. 

In our organization, there are around 1,400 users of this solution. 

Nutanix technical support is good. Whenever I contact Nutanix, they reply to me and solve my issue. I think that Nutanix support is better than the support of other companies—with a previous VMware solution, we were using it for three or four years, but when a problem came up, it took their support three months to resolve the issue. After that, we switched to Nutanix. 

Nutanix is the third virtualization solution that I have used. We previously used a VMware solution. In comparison, Nutanix support is much better, but the installation process for VMware was easier. 

The installation for Nutanix was not easy. We needed to do many interactive things in order to install it, and there were many controllers. You will need a technical engineer to help with installation. Installation takes about two days, maybe three days, maximum. 

We implemented this solution through an in-house team. 

We just have a support license for Nutanix. 

I rate Nutanix Acropolis a ten out of ten, and I would recommend Nutanix products to others. 

I am using Nutanix Acropolis AOS for virtualization.

Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation.

The compatibility and integration of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved. For example, we have a WAF application firewall and it does not work on this solution. Not all the OS's run on AOS. You need to have a newer version of an operating system if you want Nutanix to perfectly run all the different options.

I have been using Nutanix Acropolis AOS for approximately four months.

Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable.

I have contacted the support during the installation. I did receive a quick and informative response. However, I don't use the support very often. 

I would advise others this is a good product for virtualization.

I rate Nutanix Acropolis AOS an eight out of ten.

We are the service partners. Generally, we are taking care of the Nutanix systems for the customer.

One customer, for example, uses it widely in a hospital environment. 

The support is quite good.

We have found the solution to be stable. It offers good performance. 

The scalability is great.

The product offers a general easy configuration of disaster recovery. That's the major thing. Disaster recovery and business continuity are very good.

Frankly speaking, there are some issues. For example in the newer version could be better. If there could be good documentation in some instances. While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users. 

In the next release, I would like to have a multi-tenant environment. That way, you could set up a special VM for a special group of people and the other group will not be able to see certain things. It would make the solution better. 

I've used the solution for about three years at this point. We've used it for a while. 

The hypervisor is very stable. Overall, the performance is good. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and it doesn't have bugs or glitches.

The product is absolutely scalable. A company can expand it if it needs to. It's not a problem.

We have three people currently using the solution.

The technical support on offer is the best part of the product. They are excellent. We are extremely satisfied with their level of service. 

I've found the product to be absolutely easy to install.

However, for this particular system, it's hard. It takes longer to do the hardware. Physically it may take about three hours.

You do not need a lot of people for the deployment or maintenance. It's a one-man show. The person also does not need to be overly technical or specialized in Nutanix to be able to handle the implementation or maintenance. 

ROI is hard to calculate, as we are in Eastern Europe, where the pricing may be different or higher than in other places, however, we do expect an ROI with this product within three years or so.

I'm a technical person. I don't directly deal with licensing costs or arrangements, and therefore cannot speak to pricing. 

We did look at other solutions before ultimately deciding on Nutanix. We choose Nutanix due to the fact that it's easier to operate and maintain.

We are a partner of Nutanix.

I'd recommend the solution to others as its stability is so reliable. Companies should strive towards finding a good management system. It's far worse without this.

I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten.

My major use case is the Nutanix distributed file system based on the NDFS file system, which allows customers to consolidate and reposition.

The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters.

In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage.

Acropolis is pretty stable - it works perfectly within the production environment.

This solution is scalable - I can go up to a 64 node cluster from a 3 node cluster. In one organization, I configured around 316 nodes, distributed across file locations, the biggest implementation even in Asia-Pacific.

The setup was straightforward, taking between 15 days and a month.

I would rate this solution eight out of ten.