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Nutanix Database Service pros and cons

Vendor: Nutanix
4.3 out of 5
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PROS

Nutanix Database Service offers efficient database provisioning, reducing setup time to minutes and enhancing operational efficiency.
The built-in automation features of Nutanix Era simplify database patching and management, greatly reducing the time and resources needed for such tasks.
Nutanix Database Service's Time Machine feature minimizes downtime by allowing quick database restoration without frequent snapshots.
Users value Nutanix Database Service for its ability to manage multiple vendors and its robust infrastructure management tools.
Nutanix Era streamlines database deployment and management processes, supporting faster business analysis and new application development.

CONS

Nutanix Database Service needs enhanced SQL compatibility and improved integration with other backups and products.
Patch management should be more stable and ideally be a one-button function to reduce manual intervention.
Compatibility with multiple environments like VMware and Red Hat would make Nutanix Database Service more versatile.
The pricing structure has room for improvement, making Nutanix Database Service more accessible.
Enhanced logging and error pinpointing are needed, as users find it challenging to navigate logs.
 

Nutanix Database Service Pros review quotes

JP
Lead Systems Administrator at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
May 7, 2025
The Time Machine feature in Nutanix Database Service has definitely reduced turnaround time for when we need clones or other environments spun up off of our existing environment, such as for corruption.
GA
Director enterprise virtualization at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 7, 2025
What I appreciate the most about Nutanix Database Service is the standardization and ease of deployment. It makes it easier for the database administrators to deploy without either the database administrator or the business needing all their staff and waiting a long period of time to have their request fulfilled.
AC
It manager at Indra
May 7, 2025
What I appreciate the most about Nutanix Database Service is that it's simple; it's all in one bundle, and everything is pre-configured so that you can deploy your database and protect it.
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reviewer2703339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems administrator at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
May 7, 2025
The provisioning and other features of Nutanix Database Service have improved my company by making it easy to deploy the databases, and DBAs can just deploy what they need as needed instead of having to manually create VMs for them individually and install the databases and setting everything up with DBAs provisioning databases themselves.
reviewer2703333 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
May 7, 2025
I appreciate being able to provision a database quickly from our side. We provision it and hand it off. It makes work much easier. Previously, it would take a week or two to do the same in a traditional way, whereas now, it gets completed within about an hour.
Sanjay Pandhare - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Optimistic Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Sep 26, 2025
Nutanix Database Service is a scalable solution.
reviewer2114211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Sep 26, 2025
The benefit I see from the product in terms of its solution is that flexibility regarding where the workload runs is probably the biggest advantage with Nutanix Database Service.
AS
CEO at Winov
May 21, 2024
I like how easy it is to implement MySQL, SQL, and open-source database platforms.
Prasad Pimple - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Information Technology at network techlab
Nov 18, 2024
Nutanix Era effectively reduces operational overheads by streamlining the application team's implementation of multiple environments.
FA
Head of IT, Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 23, 2024
The time to provision the database went from taking a couple of days to now taking a few minutes. That is the immediate impact we saw. It helped the team to focus more. They can now be focused on support rather than spending time provisioning, which is a repetitive activity.
 

Nutanix Database Service Cons review quotes

JP
Lead Systems Administrator at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
May 7, 2025
Nutanix Database Service can be improved by enhancing logging; when we're trying to look for errors, one of the hiccups we always run into is that it's very hard to pinpoint and look through the logs.
GA
Director enterprise virtualization at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 7, 2025
One of the things that we've discovered specific to SQL is that the deployment options that are available do not match our company standards, so we have asked the Nutanix team if that is something that is customizable or if we need to adjust our deployment strategy. That's the only thing that we've discovered so far.
AC
It manager at Indra
May 7, 2025
In the past, there were built-in templates, and now, for some particular databases, I have to create my own templates and push them to NDB, so bringing back those templates would save more time.
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reviewer2703339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems administrator at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
May 7, 2025
Nutanix Database Service could be improved by making it just a little bit less complex regarding the interface. That said, it's definitely in the right direction.
reviewer2703333 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
May 7, 2025
The only improvement I would suggest is making the template creation and updating process more straightforward and automated.
Sanjay Pandhare - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Optimistic Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Sep 26, 2025
Nutanix Database Service can be improved by implementing more AI capabilities.
reviewer2114211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Sep 26, 2025
There have been instances where clients have been using databases that are not supported by Nutanix Database Service, though I cannot recall which ones at the moment.
AS
CEO at Winov
May 21, 2024
It would be helpful if Nutanix added a billing system for databases. We need to automate this with a separate solution. We are service providers, so it would be easier for our customers if there were a built-in system that we could use for billing.
Prasad Pimple - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Information Technology at network techlab
Nov 18, 2024
Era should be compatible with various environments, such as VMware and Red Hat, to be hypervisor agnostic.
FA
Head of IT, Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 23, 2024
There will always be room for improvement, there is nothing perfect from day one. There are some technical challenges that we have with NDS. I believe with time it will be sorted out.