Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

The solution helps our organization to store very critical data.

Implementing Nutanix Unified Storage has resulted in a reduction in the number of storage nodes by 13%.

Nutanix Unified Storage is a stable solution that provides good storage and efficiency.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage for three years.

Nutanix Unified Storage is a very stable solution.

The solution's technical support is good. We opened some cases on the website, and the support team responded very quickly.

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The solution’s initial setup is easy.

We implemented the solution through an integrator company, named Microdata.

The solution's pricing is better compared to other products.

Before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage, we evaluated other solutions. We chose Nutanix Unified Storage because of its quality.

Overall, I rate Nutanix Unified Storage a nine out of ten.

Our primary use case is for Nutanix Files and Nutanix Objects. The product has worked well, it has worked as indicated. We are also in the certification process for Nutanix Files.

We have been testing it the most for data availability and integration with backup tools such as Veeam.

I find that Nutanix’s resilience is the most valuable because it is a feature that is not found in other technologies. 

The throughput and latency of Nutanix Unified Storage for data-intensive workloads, such as AI or data analytics are excellent since we have tested it and it has worked correctly as indicated for Objects. It has worked well with Veeam backups. It has been integrated without problems. The API has worked correctly and there were no problems when it came to integration. I think it is one of the features that we liked the most.

It detects and blocks ransomware threats well. The data lens themes where we have the detection of unwanted files and the exclusion policies for files that we do not want in our data work well. Perhaps it could be improved by integrating other security solutions that can improve the detection of those files.

We haven’t used Nutanix Data Lens that much but I believe the organization started using it because of the issue of counter-threats and the intention with endpoint protection solutions. As far as I have tried it, it seems to work well. The extension exclusion policies feature seems to be very valuable and the “WORM” function that keeps the data consistent as is. It seems to me that it is one of the most interesting functions it has.

I believe that one of the most complicated parts of Nutanix Unified Storage is the configuration of the DNS issue in Active Directory. Sometimes it is a bit complicated to troubleshoot or detect an error when integrating it with Active Directory.

I've been using Nutanix Unified Storage for about a year or so.

It is very stable.

It seems to me that scalability is one of its stronger points. We do have plans to extend its use in the future.

Support is very good since Nutanix has a support presence in Mexico and for this reason, it is easier to communicate with Nutanix.

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The setup was a little complicated when it came to integrating it with Active Directory, but later it was easy to integrate it into backup tools. We didn't have any specific strategy, we just followed the official guidance forms.

The data security, data intelligence, and above all availability with the resilience of Nutanix itself is the ROI that we see.

It seems to me that the price difference from a traditional infrastructure is a little high, but I do believe that it is totally worth the investment.

I’m pretty sure that this was the first solution we evaluated and it has worked well.

We haven't seen a reduction in nodes or servers, but there’s greater ease in maintaining the infrastructure and managing it.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage a nine out of ten. I wouldn't give it a perfect ten out of ten because of the complexity it has when it comes to integrating it with Active Directory.

Our customer is in a POC for NUS for three nodes. They're using it as a backup target for Commvault. They have 120 TBs. This is what makes NUS very special. You can use it as a storage for backup or for any production storage. You can also use it for file sharing. These were our customer's needs and instead of giving them multiple products, we recommended NUS.

They will use it on Airgap with Commvault. 

Nutanix was fast and good. They have Commvault as a backup target, you can scale it as much as you want. You can add disks. Later on, you can reuse it as a production environment. So the customer was very happy with that. With Commvault, the restore and backup operations are really good.

You can also separate the networks. You can use it for production from the same appliances and another network for the DMZ. It's better than buying two storage systems or two backup targets for each one.

The capacity is very good. They use fewer nodes than before. Each node is isolated with the CPU with the performance. It is a cluster node but works separately, so the performance will be tripled.

We haven't gotten any bad feedback. 

I have been using NUS for three to four months. 

It's very good, it's very stable. The high availability feature works so that even if one node is down, you still can survive. 

Scalability is based on the nodes. You can scale as much as you want.

The support team is amazing. Our customer had one failure where it was not powering on at all. I opened the case and within two weeks, they replaced it with a new one. The customer is very happy with the help. They are wonderful.

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My client was using Data Domain by Dell. Nutanix has better pricing, features, and cloud, and they're agnostic to any hardware.

The POC was very good. The implementation went smoothly. The customer still has a Dell environment so we gave him NUS to POC.

The pricing is very good. Compared to Dell and VMware, it's very good. VMware cost has doubled. 

I don't use it for AI purposes. I use it as a backup and storage system. The performance is for a backup. It's much better than compared to other appliances.

I would rate it a nine out of ten. Everything has been okay until now. The integrations are very good. Nutanix works well with Commvault. The customer is now finishing their POC.

The primary use case is to offer a highly available Linux-based file server to eliminate the security vulnerabilities of a Windows-based file server and the pain point of having a single file server, which means you can reboot it during production hours. Besides the general performance and security improvements, it also adds analytics audit trails and, most importantly, ransomware protection. For example, it’s not uncommon for a client to migrate their Windows file shares to Nutanix Files and then File Analytics detects and blocks dormant ransomware files.

The most valuable feature is that it is highly available, solving the pain-point of delaying updates to Windows-based file servers during production hours. And then the second one would be ransomware protection and analytics. It gives you great visibility and protection on your file shares that are otherwise the most common sources of vulnerabilities.

We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that.

I have been using it for a few years. 

As the solution is highly available, it's infinitely more stable than a single file

server.

It is a super scalable solution.

The customer service team is most excellent, and a primary factor when choosing Nutanix.

Positive

It requires a bit of understanding of how Nutanix works. If you're familiar with Nutanix or a Nutanix partner, integrating is fairly straightforward.

For clients running Nutanix, the licensing cost for Files is a small add-on cost.

It does not require extra maintenance than any other software product. One needs to patch it periodically. Every client we've migrated from Windows file server to Nutanix file servers has said, I wish I'd done this sooner. I recommend exploring this as soon as you read about it. It solves issues left out in the wild by Windows file servers that no one is addressing and does so in a super powerful way.
I rate it ten out of ten.

Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes. 

We have been using the Nutanix HCI model for four or five years. 

Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product. 

We have VxRail, but we are more comfortable with Nutanix.

I rate Nutanix Volumes eight out of 10. If Nutanix is the primary solution with the web app and BP, you should use a single HCI model to reduce the complexity in the primary application.

We use the solution to provide security and access control for files.

The solution has the best features to restore the files. If the users delete the files accidentally, they can restore all the versions of the same file. 

It is challenging to set up group policies regarding user access to the solution. We have to log on to the system for it. Instead, setting them up directly through the system would be easier.

We have been using the solution for nearly two years.

I rate the solution's stability a ten.

We have around 80 solution users in our organization. It is highly scalable. I rate its scalability a nine out of ten.

The solution's technical support team works excellently to address the queries regarding the settings. It resolves them within a few hours.

Positive

The solution's initial setup process is simple. Although, it is complicated in terms of access control settings.

The solution is highly-priced.

The solution is straightforward to use and set up. I rate it an eight out of ten.

Nutanix Objects is reliable.

The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better.

I've been working with Nutanix Objects for a couple of years.

It was unstable when we first started because we didn't have the correct firmware versions, but support updated all the necessary components. After that, it worked fine.

Our configuration is already using three nodes, and I don't think the customer has tried to implement beyond that. I can't tell you if it scales well beyond three nodes.

Nutanix has great tech support, but sometimes you have to get to tier 2 or tier 3 for help with newer products. When we were implementing Objects, we were among the first users. The first-line support couldn't help us. 

They had to escalate it to a person who was a consultant or someone who uses it all the time before we got the answers we needed. We had to send engineering logs, so the technicians could tell us to update the firmware and stuff. They couldn't fix it in a couple of days. It was more like a week or two.

Objects was a fairly new solution when we got it. Not everybody was trained on it. You can't throw everybody into a scene and expect them to know everything about all the real-world situations.

Nutanix Objects is difficult to set up, but it's easy to use once deployed. It's not something you implement on a whim. You have to put some thought into it. 

I don't like that I have to pay for Objects. It's an add-on that doesn't come with the OS. 

I rate Nutanix Objects eight out of 10. You have to find a need for it. If it's right for you, go ahead and do it. After working with other Nutanix solutions, I can say that everything has a purpose, and it is pretty bulletproof. 

Our primary use case is for running an EMR through Citrix.

The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand. 

We size them accordingly but there's unexpected demand. It's much easier to scale a Nutanix node. Traditional storage doesn't scale so well but Nutanix aggregates it all into one single layer. 

A lot of times we use Golden Images through Citrix and the ability to make those Golden Images available through that entire storage stack is important to us. 

In terms of its ability to remove silos in our company storage, we still need traditional storage but NUS provides availability and single unification. You can scale much more easily versus traditional storage.

I think Nutanix does a very good job with unified storage and they continue to innovate. As they innovate it, there are new features that you can take advantage of. There was something called Shadow Clones that didn't exist with other storages. This feature is relevant for me with what I do with Citrix using the Shadow Clones. It accelerates and makes things more efficient for me.

We don't have issues with the storage. We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage. 

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage for seven years.

Their support is excellent. They are still engaged even when something isn't their problem. That's one of the biggest asks from a support perspective. I would rate them a ten out of ten. 

Positive

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage a ten out of ten. We haven't had any problems with them.