Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

Our organization is utilizing Nutanix Objects Storage for backup purposes, but it has a variety of applications, such as video recordings, database systems, and other backup needs.

The inclusion of it in the Nutanix Objects Storage platform simplifies my process as I am no longer required to acquire a separate platform. Instead, I can simply purchase additional licenses as needed. All management can be performed from a single unified interface, making it a convenient and streamlined experience.

Nutanix Objects Storage added the cluster on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure recently, which was a large improvement. The fact that we're constantly making enhancements and improvements is a large benefit.

The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market.

I used Nutanix Objects Storage within the last 12 months.

The stability of the system is remarkable. No disruptions have occurred and the upgrades are carried out smoothly. The process is automated, allowing us to initiate the upgrade and let it proceed on its own, one note at a time.

The ability to easily add another node as your business grows is a major advantage. Nutanix Objects Storage allows for flexibility in the type of nodes added, whether it be for more object storage or increased compute power for databases. This mix-and-match capability, combined with the ease of scaling, makes the solution highly scalable solution.

I rate the scalability of Nutanix Objects Storage a ten out of ten.

I have not personally dealt with Nutanix technical support, but from what I have heard, it is highly rated. The support team is said to be efficient and knowledgeable, allowing for quick resolution of issues. The process of reaching the right person is reportedly smooth and avoids the need for multiple escalations. Nutanix Objects Storage tech support is said to be good and effective in resolving problems.

The initial setup was extremely straightforward. The process involved simply activating the license and enabling the feature, and it took mere minutes to complete. Hence, it was a hassle-free deployment and easy to manage.

If we compare the cost of Nutanix Objects Storage to other solutions, such as VMware licenses, our current choice is Nutanix Objects Storage. This solution is more cost-effective. However, adding VMware to Nutanix would not be a cost-efficient decision, which is why we do not use it anymore.

Nutanix Objects Storage is fantastic. It offers excellent value for money and has the ability to scale up seamlessly. Nutanix is a top-notch company to work with. Their platform is highly scalable, and stable, and offers greater flexibility than any of its competitors.

I rate Nutanix Objects Storage a ten out of ten.

I rate the solution a ten out of ten because of the versatility it offers. The ability to choose from a range of nodes with varying CPU and storage capabilities allows me to have flexibility in my operations. Additionally, the expandability is great as I can grow according to my needs without having to waste resources.

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.

Positive

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.