Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Reviews

We use the solution as a private cloud management tool in our company.

We create some VMs using Nutanix Cloud Manager Self-Service. The solution's simplicity to use and its configurable features are some of the solution's valuable parts.

I am very satisfied with the solution. The pricing of the solution is an area of concern that needs improvement.

I have experience and work with products from Nutanix. I have worked on the solution for three years. I am a customer of Nutanix.

The solution is very stable. I mean, we don't have problems using the solution.

I'm very satisfied with the product's scalability since it's very good.

Customer support is very good. For everything we need, we call the support, and they work together with us to solve the issue and find a solution quickly. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.

Positive

It's simple and not complex to do the first setup. For deployment, around four people who were from a technical background, who knew how to operate the system, were required. For the maintenance of the product, four people are required.

On a scale from one to ten, if one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the solution's pricing a six.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Some people use a hybrid environment with a combination of on-premises and cloud resources, while others are moving towards a multi-cloud approach. The multi-cloud aspect of Nutanix Cloud Manager Intelligent Operations is becoming increasingly popular. That's also our primary use case. 

The ability to cross between different clouds is a valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Manager Intelligent Operations. This allows users to take advantage of pricing for storage in the cloud and switch between different cloud providers or vendors without incurring egress fees or movement fees. So, that's the reason why we like to use it. It also provides ease of use to change workloads between cloud providers or vendors.

There is room for improvement in the initial setup. It is quite complex to setup and requires professional services.

I have been using this solution for around a year. 

Nutanix has very good scalability as long as you are not limited to just their features. This is a common issue with virtualized solutions, where the more features you want, the more you have to pay. However, all virtualized solutions can scale well, including Nutanix.

In my opinion, Nutanix's ability to scale well is due to its partnership with different vendors. They now offer regular BYO(Bring Your Own) computing and storage, which is not limited to only Nutanix appliances anymore. Other vendors, such as HPE and even Cisco can now be used, and you are not required to use Nutanix appliances. This has helped Nutanix to scale even better than before.

So overall, the ability to use different vendors and not be locked into a Nutanix appliance has been a big advantage for users.

The customer service and support team is good. 

Positive

Most of the time, customers need to bring in professional services as they don't have the expertise to do it themselves. It's not that intuitive as there's always something missing, which can cost more if a mistake is made.

Nutanix is priced in between VMware, and Hyper V. Hyper V is the cheapest, while Nutanix falls in the middle. However, Nutanix is not cheap, as it has many good features, but you have to pay for them. This is the same with VMware.

Nutanix is cheaper than VMware but not as cheap as Microsoft's Hyper V.

Overall, I would rate the solution a six out of ten. 

Our primary use case is cloud computing for government clients of the territory, which has all its services in the cloud.

So far, the level of performance in each client has been satisfactory. This has helped to earn our organization a high reputation, with thanks to the service provided. Being a hyper-converged infrastructure and market leader, we can have many benefits and a lot of return on investment.

The main benefit is to improve and increase the portfolio of products in the Corporation. The slogan of our cloud is hyper convergent, and the results have been satisfactory.

The administration components are the most useful since, with them, we have been able to win and perform preventive measures in the administration of the hyper-converged Nutanix infrastructure.

It has a very useful and intuitive interface. Administrators trust it to perform preventive diagnoses on the platform, which helps in the administration of the infrastructure. We have been able to gain a lot of experience in all aspects of administration, which has made us a competitive organization in the Cloud Computing market.

All of the tools that Nutanix brings have supported us to improve the service provided to our customers.

The most innovative part of the platform is the set of predictive monitoring tools. They help IT administrators in preventive monitoring and as a service in Cloud Computing services.

We would like to be able to provision virtual machines at the computing level, as that would give us an added value against the competition. Being an infrastructure free of licensing and being able to count on the over-provisioning of resources would be helpful.

We have been using Nutanix Prism Pro for about five years.

This product is highly stable.

The scalability is high.

The Prims Pro tool, being free, improves the ROI in the organization. The most important thing is to have a return on investment, which we have achieved. We have also gained prestige in the face of the competition, and we hope to continue growing in infrastructure.

We evaluated other products before settling on this product. It really has its qualities and as a service provider, we have been able to compare it with other infrastructure and we have seen that it wins in all aspects.

We use Nutanix Xi Beam for cost optimization and security compliance.

Nutanix Xi Beam's executive dashboard is valuable. It provides a complete sense of the whole infrastructure, right from a costing standpoint and a billing standpoint. It also shows your compliance requirements and solution insights.

I think Nutanix Xi Beam can be more cost-effective. 

This product should have a sense of what their users need. Few systems are not business-critical, but they run 24/7. This product usually works on average utilization. It should help us by showing the peak utilization and make recommendations. Otherwise, we play a blind game of cost optimization. If you reduce the configuration of the servers' recent size and the peak workloads come, there'll be a huge outcry because of business disruption.

Integrations are mostly based on APIs. It needs to build some good level of interoperability between the platforms, like in the multi-cloud environments. Otherwise, the process infrastructure isn't fully-fledged, and we won't know what kind of workloads can be offloaded from the cloud to on-premise. This can reduce the cloud's footprint, not just from a cost-saving standpoint within the cloud, but also from understanding the whole ecosystem and the infrastructure. 

I have been using Nutanix Xi Beam for more than a year. 

Nutanix Xi Beam is a stable solution. Our expectations are a bit average and not high. In that sense, it's good.

Initially, we had tech support, but now we're solely dependent on our in-house workforce capability.

I have used a startup solution called CloudOptics, as well.

The initial setup is straightforward. We didn't integrate it with anything, but we plan to integrate it with many other solutions to bring some interoperability to it. 

We started small and then started expanding. Now it's targeting only AWS, and we don't have any difficulty with cloud deployment.

A reseller, a Nutanix partner, implemented it.

Initially, it was monthly, and now it's on a yearly basis.

I have used a startup solution called CloudOptics, as well. We had a good demo of Nutanix Xi Beam in 2018 0r 2017, and it was one of the best tools at that time. We stuck to two or three products. I think one was Tableau. We tried the Nutanix Xi Beam one-month free trial and saved a lot of dollars within that month. That's when our leadership made the call.

On a scale from one to ten, I'll give Nutanix Xi Beam a seven.

I'll tell potential customers to explore their options because there are a number of competitors in terms of competency and pricing.

The most valuable features are the: 

• Compliance features 
• Chargebacks.

It is stable. 

It is scalable. We work with small, medium, and enterprise-size customers. 

Their technical support is very good. 

The initial setup is simple. It only takes a few minutes, maximum one hour. 

The pricing should be lower. 

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

In the next release, I would like to see more cloud providers like Micro BH or local providers.

We are a reseller and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our clients. We do not use this solution for our company.

This solution is used by customers who want to manage a hybrid cloud, with part of it on-premises and part of it on the public cloud.

In this solution, it is difficult to organize the VM folders and subfolders. If in the next version they could make this easier then it would be a great product.

The Nutanix technical support is very, very good.

I do not have enough experience with this product to fully judge it, although I have seen many of the features in demonstrations. I will know a lot more once I deploy it for the first time.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.