Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

We use Nutanix Files Storage for sharing and storing critical data with different divisions and for various services within the company.

What I found most valuable in Nutanix Files Storage is its high availability and ability to scale out with many VMs.

Nutanix Files Storage lacks a user access auditing feature, and that's the feature I want to be added to the solution.

Managing other storage infrastructure on Nutanix Files Storage is an area for improvement. In particular, I want to add other forms of storage from different vendors not currently in Nutanix Files Storage, to the file server, for better management.

I've been using Nutanix Files Storage for four years.

Nutanix Files Storage is stable, so I'm rating it as ten.

Nutanix Files Storage is very scalable. In terms of scalability, it's a ten.

The support for Nutanix Files Storage is excellent. When I open a case, mainly when it's critical, I get a direct response at a maximum of four hours. The Nutanix technical support team always has a solution. My company has opened many cases with Nutanix, and it always gets a solution for each case.

As the technical support for Nutanix Files Storage is very good, I'm giving it a ten out of ten.

It was easy for me to set up Nutanix Files Storage. I didn't experience any difficulty with the initial setup, so setup-wise, it's a nine out of ten.

Deploying Nutanix Files Storage took a few minutes. It's a process of adding a new file server, selecting the number of VMs, and taking care of the local storage, DNS, and the network.

I implemented Nutanix Files Storage. I am NCSC-certified. I am a consultant, so I could implement the solution without help from the vendor.

As an engineer, I don't have information on the pricing for Nutanix Files Storage. A different team handles that part.

I've recently updated Nutanix Files Storage, so I'm using the latest version.

I didn't experience any problems updating or maintaining Nutanix Files Storage whenever there's a new version. My company updates and upgrades immediately.

I recommend Nutanix Files Storage to others because it's easy to install and has high availability. It's one of the most useful solutions.

My rating for Nutanix Files Storage is nine out of ten.

My company is a Nutanix customer.

We store a lot of our R&D-related files in Nutanix Files Storage.

What I like most about Nutanix Files Storage is the way it makes copies of the data. The solution also has high availability, which is excellent.

Another valuable feature of Nutanix Files Storage is self-service, so users won't have to depend on the IT team much. Users can independently work with the solution.

What's missing in Nutanix Files Storage is the support for multiple intranets or VLANs on the same file from different networks and network devices. That feature doesn't exist today, so the Nutanix product team is working on it, as requested by my company.

There's a limitation with using multiple VLANs on the same file. Right now, it's coming from two different network switches, and the product doesn't support it because it expects all VLANs to go to the same physical switch. This isn't tolerable in my company's LAN environment, so Nutanix Files Storage needs this product enhancement or feature.

I've been using Nutanix Files Storage for over two years.

I didn't experience any outage since Nutanix Files Storage was implemented, so stability-wise, it's going well. I'm rating its stability as nine out of ten.

Nutanix Files Storage is easy to scale out. My company had grown, so it expanded the cluster; scalability-wise, the solution is a nine out of ten.

I contacted Nutanix Files Storage technical support about the product enhancement, and the team was proactive and knowledgeable.

I'd rate support as seven out of ten because there was no solution to my issue, though the team took it as a product enhancement request.

Neutral

Before using Nutanix Files Storage, my company used the traditional NetApp-based vFiler solution. There was no self-service feature in NetApp, so you have to always depend on a storage administrator to set things up, versus Nutanix which was certainly easy to set up, configure, and use.

Scaling vFiler was challenging, so you always had extra capacity compared to Nutanix Files Storage.

Nutanix Files Storage is straightforward to set up, so I'm rating it, setup-wise, as nine out of ten.

Deploying Nutanix Files Storage took weeks, but my company had to transfer a lot of data from the legacy system, which took time. Overall, the project went well.

We implemented Nutanix Files Storage through a system integrator, Wipro.

I find Nutanix Files Storage competitively priced, even its feature set. Its price is seven out of ten.

I would advise people new to Nutanix Files Storage to see how often data is being utilized and decide on a storage strategy based on that. If you only need simple file sharing that requires less access, then you have other solutions that can leverage the public cloud, so you won't have to worry about capacity issues. However, if you're focused on latency and performance, then Nutanix Files Storage would be a great fit. The product is self-explanatory and straightforward, so there's nothing to worry about.

Around one thousand people use Nutanix Files Storage within my company.

The solution is heavily used daily.

My rating for Nutanix Files Storage is eight out of ten.

My company is a Nutanix customer and not a partner.

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.

Positive

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.

My company uses the solution for the filing system purpose. My organization also uses the tool for the application and the APIs installed in Kubernetes to synchronize with the workload services.

The product was useful for my business since it allowed for syncing between the on-premise and the cloud applications, which helped us in a very good way. With the tool, my company was able to have applications that were highly available.

My company has the product installed in a hybrid environment.

Nutanix Unified Storage's throughput or latency for data-intensive workloads, such as AI or data analytics, is good and perfect. The capacities or abilities of the product are based on the configuration and use cases that my company deals with, and I see how the product already works well for us.

Nutanix Unified Storage detects and blocks ransomware threats very well. I rate the tool's ability to detect and block ransomware threats an eight out of ten. The product needs to work a bit more on its ransomware detection capabilities.

In terms of false positives, I would say that I think it is a stable tool that is growing in the right direction. I think that within one or two years, it will be a fully flexible tool.

Implementing Nutanix Unified Storage has resulted in a reduction in the number of storage nodes used in our company, and I think it is possible due to an increased storage capacity per node. With less capacity, the tool can support more applications. In my company, we have been able to save around ten nodes using Nutanix Unified Storage, and such a reduction has been helpful in terms of cost savings.

The solution's most valuable features are its support and speed. In case of any support cases, the tool's technical team provides help seamlessly. The product is very light, so adopting the technology is very easy.

I don't know how the product can be made perfect. Till date, my company has not faced any significant issues with the tool. Considering that my company is already an existing partner of Nutanix, if we plan to scale up, then some improvements are required on the pricing front and the scalability feature offered by the solution.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage for two years.

The product is stable.

Scalability-wise, the solution is very nice. The scalability feature of the product is actually available as an add-on which allows users to scale the existing environment by allowing one to put more nodes, more applications, while being able to move it between cloud and on-premises, which is something very great.

In a short period of time, the support team provides a proper solution. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

My company used VMware in the past. We switched from VMware to Nutanix Unified Storage because of the seamless stability offered by Nutanix. Nutanix products are scalable in a nice way, and we can move the tool from the cloud to an on-premises version and vice versa.

The product's initial deployment phase was neither hard nor easy, making it a neutral process for me.

In case, anything happens during the tool's implementation phase, you can open a case with the support team and they can provide a fair resolution.

The solution can be deployed in a span of forty days.

Using the tool, my company has saved around 30,000 USD.

My company did not evaluate any other options against Nutanix Unified Storage.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

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.

Positive

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.

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.

We are a managed services provider, and we customize solutions for every use case. For example, we have a client who built up file servers on Azure and found it very cost prohibitive. Thus, they wanted to move back into Nutanix Unified Storage to reduce costs. Our clients have seen a 7% to 10% reduction in storage costs. We have been able to achieve a 4:1 compression using Nutanix Unified Storage.

We have one client who is currently doing a POC with Nutanix Data Lens.

We have been able to improve efficiency metrics such as performance, dedup, and energy savings by using Nutanix Unified Storage.

One of our clients has 14 different locations, and having a single pane of glass with Nutanix Unified Storage would be a great help for them. We would not have to create 14 different consoles.

Nutanix needs to improve their cybersecurity options at the storage level.

We've been working with this solution for a year.

We have not seen any issues with the stability of the solution.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand your storage up. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem.

We have seen an ROI. When we build a solution for a five or six-year contract, we factor in the total cost of ownership. The total cost of ownership for Nutanix is very competitive.

Compared to other solutions, Nutanix Unified Storage is cost-effective and efficient. It also has good performance.

I would recommend Nutanix Unified Storage and rate it a ten out of ten. You will be able to bring in scalability and flexibility. 

We use Nutanix Unified Storage and Nutanix Data Lens for optimization. We move files to the cloud, run analytics, and upload about 18 GB to the cloud.

We have been able to save local disk space by using Data Lens. We upload 18 GB to the cloud and are able to save 20% to 25%. We don't need to buy new nodes, so we are able to save money as well.

Nutanix Unified Storage gives us greater visibility into what is in our storage, and we have been able to clean it up.

The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler.

We've been working with Nutanix for eight years, and we implemented Nutanix Data Lens six months ago.

I expect the stability to be good.

The scalability should be good as well. We should be able to extend storage as needed. Locally, our environment is 150 TB.

I have experienced the best technical support from Nutanix. I can reach an engineer immediately and get full support. I get responses immediately to tickets, unlike with other services where it can take forever. Therefore, I would rate the technical support a ten out of ten.

Positive

The reseller helped us with the deployment, and it went smoothly.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage a ten out of ten.

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.

We mainly use the solution for consolidated file servers.

The solution's valuable features include reporting, a management dashboard and file analytics. Through the file analytics feature, we can detect any file anomaly.

They should integrate additional security with Multi-Factor Authentication. Also, if they can add an integrated DLP feature, it would be great.

We have been using the solution for four years.

It is a very stable solution as it has already inherited the HCI hardware resiliency and high availability of the HCI infrastructure. 

The solution's scalability is a ten as there's no limitation yet regarding its capacity. It automatically expands another VM node if you want to increase capacity. Presently, our organization has around 100-150 users of the solution.

The solution's tech support is very good. The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive. It is easy to open a case.

The solution's setup is straightforward. You need to upgrade the installer, and then it follows the wizard. Next, you have to integrate an active directory service, and it's good to go.

If you already have a Nutanix HCI environment, add per-terabyte licensing. That would be cheaper than acquiring new Nutanix files. It is expensive otherwise, as it comes with three-tier underlying hardware. I rate the solution's pricing as a seven.

We have compared the solution with LenevoNetApp. They have a unified storage that supports file services and block services. But we found Nutanix's features availing richness of reports and dashboard more promising. We are able to get  dashboard and granular reports on how our data is accessed and used with Nutanix Files Storage compared to traditional unified solutions. Also, in terms of hardware redundancy during deployment, Nutanix Files is much better. In addition, Nutanix Files Storage is deployed on top of the HCI service. That makes the software-defined in terms of protection resiliency. In the case of traditional file storage, if we want to have redundancy and resiliency, we need to buy two appliances and enable them to get that resiliency.

I rate the solution as an eight, with room for improvement.