Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

We use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for storing the profile and related data for all of our end-user computing VDI sessions like their FSLogix profile and O365 data.

Prior to having NUS and Nutanix Files, we were hosting profiles on some older Dell Isilons. Due to their age, they were using hybrid storage, so we had some old-style spinning disks in addition to all-flash, which create a performance bottleneck. Nutanix's platform and the NX hardware that was purchased with it allowed us to move profiles to an all-flash solution. We're also able to utilize a 25 gigabit per second transfer speed, as opposed to the 10 gigabit per second maximum for the Dell Isilons.

The biggest advantage we find with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is the performance due to it being hyper-converged while using all-flash nodes. The storage is very responsive and it's easy to manage from the Nutanix Files platform that comes with NUS Pro. 

We appreciate the cybersecurity and ransomware protection features that are built in. We appreciate that it's included and that they maintain a regular digest of file extensions and behaviors to analyze data for malicious intrusion.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) sits in a good place for us. The biggest improvement would be to make it more cost-effective from a storage node and storage perspective, so that the solution isn't so cost-prohibitive versus other vendors.

We have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for pretty much the life of our Nutanix, which we installed roughly about two years ago.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable. With Isilon, we encountered issues with some profile disks not detaching when people would sign off. Sometimes we would have to use the CLI or command line to tell the system to disconnect those disks so they would be ready to be presented to another virtual session. We have not experienced these issues with Nutanix, which I attribute to the all-flash technology, the quality of their platform, and the responsiveness of the hyper-converged infrastructure.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) would scale very easily, simply from the ability to buy storage-focused nodes, as opposed to having to buy full-on compute and storage nodes. We would be able to scale very easily if the need arose.

Nutanix support is built from an administrator's perspective first. Anytime we see a problem in Prism Central, we can click on that alert or problem, and we can see a linked KB that tells us exactly what that problem is and how to resolve it. If we don't feel comfortable resolving it, or we feel we can't, we can raise a ticket or escalate with them very quickly. In our experience, they've been very responsive.

Nutanix support deserves a rating of nine out of ten. Nutanix should continue pioneering its current approaches, allowing administrators to self-service while maintaining quick access to support when necessary.

Positive

We were using older Isilon systems that were on hybrid storage.

With Nutanix Files, we have to use Nutanix's own management console snap-in to perform some management features with Nutanix Files. It's not as easy as just clicking on Windows File Explorer and doing what you need to do. It was just a process change for us, but I wouldn't call it a drawback.

While I cannot provide a specific dollar figure for return on investment from Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we've seen a perceived return in terms of time. As administrators, we are able to focus on other issues. The business has gained more of our time to focus on other areas, saving approximately 2 - 5 hours per week.

I was not involved in much of the pricing, setup costs, and licensing. In the manufacturing industry, we operate under very lean principles where costs are heavily scrutinized. There was some initial hesitation, but the performance we've experienced since switching to the Nutanix platform, along with the peace of mind from having confidence in our platform to not cause issues that keep us up at night, has smoothed over much of that scrutiny.

Right now, we have Dell Isilon, and we are in a migration process to move that from Dell Isilon to Nasuni. Nutanix NUS Pro was definitely in the running, but it was just ultimately a decision by the business to not do any more capital expenditures on hardware.

For the specific use case of user profiles, we decided to leverage Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). However, for our main file storage conversion, we considered newer versions of Dell Isilon, more Nutanix nodes, and Nasuni, with Nasuni being our ultimate selection. The benefit with Dell would have been the technology advantages of quickly seeding the new Isilon with the old Isilon data without any conversions. 

For Nutanix, if we had gone with more NUS nodes, we would have gotten the Data Lens product, providing a fuller view of unstructured data and a more comprehensive library of malicious and intrusion signatures. Nasuni distinguished itself by not requiring additional hardware to implement its product since it is a virtual appliance that tiers off into the cloud. The absence of capital expenditures for additional hardware, which would have been required for Dell and Nutanix, ultimately led us to choose Nasuni.

We are not currently running any AI/ML workloads as we're part of the manufacturing industry, which tends to be slower in adopting new and emerging technologies. The driver for AI adoption would likely come from our engineering group and not IT. 

I would advise companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to thoroughly understand their business needs before making the transition. Moving to Nutanix and its price point required us to deeply understand our business requirements. The platform is built to accommodate both current and future feature needs, with continuous evolution to address emerging requirements. 

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) a nine out of ten, considering the scalability, performance, and ease of use with the Nutanix Files console.

A lot of our documents are ingested through Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and since we're a financial institution, we're receiving a lot of PII, PCI, and looking for data protection along with a lot of financial documents that are rolling through pretty frequently. We also have a lot of VDI profiles that are hosted or linked to NUS right now, making it a really great solution for us. We have to have our compute and the data has to be right there.

The overall management interface of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has been very comprehensive, giving us a very easy overview into our environment. 

We love the scalability features of NUS and the ability to not have an all-in-one storage package where you drop money on something, and that's what it's going to be. 

The availability of the environment is incredible, and with Prism Central, you're able to diagnose and go over issues quickly. If you don't know what's going on, you can contact Nutanix support if you have an agreement, as we do, and their specialists will help you quickly.

I appreciate Nutanix is taking the steps towards data isolation and protection features and enhancing them for public and private sectors. They're really trying to treat their environments as an all-encompassing environment on the security side of things as well and not just focused on the, for NUS, the storage side.

A more consistent flow of information would improve the solution, as I've noticed some inconsistencies, mostly stemming from the coordination between the hardware vendor and Nutanix. 

I've encountered issues while doing manual firmware upgrades on all of our nodes, trying to locate the specific ISO image to upload through the HPE iLOs. Sometimes I've received mixed information on which one to utilize, causing a roadblock. When working within a change window and a maintenance window overnight, I need to get this done immediately and have someone online. Narrowing that down and getting it on the first try would be great.

We have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for about two and a half years now, deploying back in 2022 after we had a lot of success with Nutanix Compute clusters.

I haven't encountered a time where we've had a file share or a file server go down with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), which is very impressive. Prism Central is also very comprehensive in providing those critical alerts, warning alarms, or informational alerts if there's something that can improve in the environment. 

It's able to mention if something could be done better without currently causing an impact. The replication across our NUS clusters has been fantastic; we've had no issues there, and exploring data protection and recovery policies that you can implement in the environment has been very impressive. 

Therefore, I would rate that very high in my book as we've run into little to no issues, and when we do, they resolve very quickly with Nutanix support if needed.

The scalability benefits of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are impressive as you're not sitting on pins and needles wondering when that project's going to be dropped, and when somebody says we need more storage. You have the ability to add additional nodes to that same cluster and just expand on it. This creates a lot of breathing room for our entire team in my department because we're taken care of in that regard, making this feature big for us.

I would rate Nutanix's support for our organization a nine out of ten, placing it pretty high. I have not had many bad experiences, if any, with the support given by Nutanix. 

The cost efficiency is fantastic in terms of scalability, and they're very experienced. Anytime I've had an issue or a critical error with NUS, there's always an engineer available within two hours or, if I call with a case number reference, they've been on the phone with me in less than 30 minutes, which is impressive. 

They always follow up on cases, providing us with case notes, which I really enjoy. If there's something I don't understand as an administrator, they inform me about the issue, how they resolved it, and the commands they ran. This empowers us as administrators, allowing us to resolve issues on our own without waiting for support, making their assistance fantastic.

Positive

We did use a different competitor in the storage solution space. However, Nutanix is thinking ten years out, considering AI and mitigating risks. They aren't just looking at the present.

I was not involved of the initial deployment. I have moved around nodes and physical servers. It was likely a two-week process to get the hardware and everything set up, however, it was pretty plug and play. 

The migration takes a little while. That's the more difficult process, however, it still wasn't a tall order. 

We have seen savings in overhead management and manpower. Operationally, it's led to cost savings and cost efficiency and budget as a team. 

We're also increasing efficiency in that we're not seeing latency.

The setup costs and pricing are not within my scope. However, it is very scalable. When looking to create space, you're looking at a lot of risks with very little reward. The funding of a whole other project on a whole other storage solution. The scalability is going to reduce cost even if, upfront, you're looking at a large sum of money. You'll really have a return on investment if you run into roadblocks of running out of storage in the future. With Nutanix, we just scale up, expand and add nodes to it. It's cost-efficient for us.

I would advise other companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to first examine the landscape of their industry, understanding what kind of data they have, the connections to that data, and what currently supports or houses that data. 

We're just looking into AI right now. We're emerging into that technology. We're not there yet. I would also recommend looking at the AI and security landscape since, for financial institutions, a lot of our business is dependent on our reputation, not just on how secure we are, but also on the audits we go through. Thus, how secure STVC is in managing storage solutions is crucial for us, and that's where Nutanix really came into play as they help with security compliance, ensuring availability and securing all data flowing through those clusters. 

We're not currently utilizing the Data Lens feature. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

We use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for our Oracle workloads, providing storage to Oracle using NUS.

We are using it for the data-intensive workload, and I feel that the performance is better than the previous external solution we had. We initially had some challenges with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). Those issues were mainly because of the way our solution was deployed. We worked with Nutanix support to fix them.

What I appreciate most about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is how easy it is to use and how simple it is to create new volumes and containers, and it's pretty quick. Whenever we get a request from our Oracle team for a new disk, it takes minutes to get it done. Our company, before we had Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), was using Vblock and external storage. Using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), I've noticed that the workload is faster and the team is happier; they're not complaining about storage being slow. That's the biggest improvement I'm seeing.

We couldn't access Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) from Prism Central due to bugs. The bugs that Nutanix fixed in newer versions prevented us from accessing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) from Prism Central. There's always a solution where we can use Prism Element to access it. Improvement-wise, Nutanix should work on avoiding bugs and fixing them faster for clients. As we rely on Prism Central for many workflows, access issues are problematic. That particular issue took four or five months to get fixed due to the slow response from Nutanix. Other than that, I'm satisfied with the performance, and our Oracle team is also happy with how it's performing. I'm not seeing many complaints from them about our storage side, which is a good sign. When I'm not interacting with it every day, that means it's working as intended.

Additionally, Nutanix could enhance its knowledge base with more articles relevant to Oracle. There is a lot of content available for SQL, but not as much for Oracle-related queries. Increasing the number of knowledge base articles on Oracle would be beneficial because when facing issues, I often don't find much Oracle-related content.

I've been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the past one year.

So far, I haven't heard about anything being wrong. The platform is super reliable and stable. There hasn't been any issue on the Nutanix front. We have three technologies coming together to provide what the team needs. The issues that I usually see are related to other technologies. With Nutanix, we are pretty happy.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is definitely able to scale with the growing needs of our company. The way the licensing works, scaling is super easy.

I've communicated multiple times to potential Nutanix customers that Nutanix support is the best in the market. I usually rate support ten out of ten unless there's a specific issue. About 90% of my tickets receive a ten rating because they've always been on top of their tickets. There hasn't been a day when I opened an issue and someone hasn't contacted me within 30 minutes. Sometimes, it takes longer to fix issues due to their complexity, such as the bug we encountered for logging into NUS through Prism Central, which took three to four months to resolve, but most of the time, they handle our issues very effectively.

Positive

Our company, before we had Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), was using Vblock and external storage.

We had some challenges initially, but their support was very good. Nutanix provides the best support in the market. When we got stuck during deployment, within 30 minutes, I had somebody on a Zoom call giving a solution.

We had minor challenges during deployment, but they were taken care of quickly. It didn't take us days. It took us hours to fix the issues.

We set up Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) ourselves as we are capable engineers.

The biggest return on investment when using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is simplicity and performance. We implemented this solution because we were having numerous tickets and concerns from our Oracle team related to their daily performance. As a team, we're getting maybe 10% of what we used to get, which is already a win for us. As a small team, we don't want to deal with issues that technology can solve.

I don't deal with pricing. Licensing-wise, I have no complaints. Their license is pretty simple and easy. It gives us everything we need, so I have no complaints about licensing.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) will help reduce our total cost of ownership as we move from VMware. We currently pay for VMware licensing and NUS Pro licensing, and if we eliminate VMware, we won't need to change anything with NUS, and everything will function the same way. It's definitely going to save us money. I know our renewal is going to save us at least $20,000 a year, which is a decent amount. I don't know percentage-wise how much we're paying or what the Nutanix cost is.

We considered Dell PowerFlex, but the pricing didn't work out for us. Nutanix provided better pricing than Dell, which is why we chose them.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) an eight out of ten. The perfect version would involve fewer bugs, as that has been a significant issue for us. While that hasn't prevented our workflow entirely, as we managed to use Prism Element, it would help if they kept improving to eliminate any GUI-related bugs.

It's mostly for object storage for a backup solution. The other use case is that it's our primary file server now. We use it for central storage for all primary documents within the enterprise.

Users are able to access the files during upgrades with Nutanix Unified Storage. Everything is accessible faster than the old EMC NAS ever could manage. We never hear from the users because it just works. That's the beauty of it. With it, there is at least a 60% increase in performance.

We have found that Nutanix Unified Storage has blocked several things we didn't know existed in the environment. That has been a really nice secondary, tertiary level of protection. It's been beneficial to have that feature set natively built-in. It gives the security team confidence that the data is protected from ransomware attacks.

The effectiveness of the deduplication feature of Nutanix Unified Storage for our needs is about 15%.

We appreciate how Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) performs very well. We appreciate being able to have the duplication of the data to a secondary location.

Users never have a problem. They can also do a bit of self-service. They can do their own previous version restores. We never get calls about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), which is beneficial. The users don't have problems, so they don't need to contact us.

It functions as intended. We don't have any real requests or improvements. We're primarily focused on protecting our data. However, we use Varonis, so it would be nice to have better integration with that.

We've been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for a little over six years.

The only time we've ever had any downtime was when the object got deleted from Active Directory. Otherwise, it's always been up. We've never had a problem with it.

I would say Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable with uptime of probably 99.9%.

Nutanix Unified Storage scales very well. We can add another node into the cluster and the data footprint grows with it. Users never know about it as it's all seamless. We have about 128 terabytes of data.

We experience probably a 1% to 2% increase year over year with Nutanix Unified Storage. It doesn't grow by exponential amounts, but as we've been collapsing some remote sites and bringing things back, that's how our footprint really grows.

They're always very responsive. They always come up with answers quickly for us when we have issues.

We were previously using SAN and it was just old aging hardware. We were already a Nutanix customer using it for hyper-converged infrastructure. We decided to look at Nutanix's solution since we were already managing their platform.

It was very simple. We deployed it like a regular Nutanix cluster. The hardest part was just migrating the data and getting users migrated over there. That's probably the longest piece of it, but that goes with data.

It was completed within a couple of hours. We had the VMs and the setup of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and it worked perfectly. It was really easy.

We had someone who was proficient with scripting who was able to mirror the data for us.

It was definitely less expensive than buying a new EMC array for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). We bought a five-year commitment on all the hardware and software. As our data footprint grows, we just buy more. It has definitely been more cost-effective. We maintain 30 days worth of storage requirement.

It's definitely a lot cheaper than buying a new EMC array. We bought a five-year commitment on all the hardware and software.  I don't know what the cost was back then, but I do remember it was cheaper. The DR piece is all baked into it as well. It's nice as our data footprint grows, we just buy more.

We looked at EMC and two or three other solutions at the time. We went for Nutanix because of the ease of use, hyper-converged technology, and familiarity with it because we were already running Nutanix as a platform, so just getting rid of the traditional storage management pieces of it was a benefit. Our team can manage it.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage a ten out of ten.

My main use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) basically revolve around unified storage, as we had a situation where data was spread out across several storage platforms, and we wanted something to give us a single pane of glass that was all from one vendor and one vendor infrastructure.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped my company by being beneficial in terms of time saving, as we can manage all our data under one roof without having several systems where data is spread across, allowing us to back up a certain subset of data and maintain it with other backups, ensuring we don't have to do a bunch of searching to find out where everything is or where everything lives across all the different storage platforms, which is really nice.

What I find most valuable about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is definitely the manageability from one platform.

On databases, IOPS, read-writes, transaction logs are critical, and storing and organizing those log files and databases, as well as transaction throughput for ERP, is essential. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped us overcome a couple of Oracle-based challenges that we've had with IOPS and read and latency, providing hands-up visibility and insight into our data with graphs and charts, which allow us to know exactly how much data is flowing over the wires.

The cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, provide the ability to detect and back up block-based storage, allowing me to restore repositories or sets of block storage with one button click, which is automatic. It really helps when a user has encrypted data from ransomware, as we can click a button and restore that data to a previous snapshot, which is great.

I haven't dug deep enough into Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to know where improvements are needed yet, so from an improvement standpoint, it has done everything we've thrown at it so far.

Instead of looking at it as an improvement, what's missing is not clear at the moment. There is direct integration with Pure Storage, but it's hard to say what needs improvement.

Regarding Nutanix Files, I remember they sold an appliance solely that handled file-based expansion for clusters, which raises questions about why they sold that appliance versus all the other integration partners they're compatible with. The initial features and integration with Pure Storage are impressive. The ability to plug and play with any storage solution is incredible and allows us to utilize viable storage without spending millions on Cadillac storage providers for larger flash-based arrays.

In summary for improvements, I would say stay on the integration path, keep those integrations heavy, and let us use the software and technologies with everybody.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for about a year, a little over a year now, since we did all of our licensing last April and started utilizing the entire Acropolis hypervisor, so it's been around 13 to 14 months.

I have yet to have a problem with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) where data was unavailable or we were in a down state; I would say we have 99 to 100% reliability in uptime.

On the scalability tip, adding storage is as easy as expanding, and you can add as much storage as you can pay for, so there haven't been any issues in scaling, and we haven't reached a scale cap yet.

Customer service and technical support for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is great, as during business hours, every ticket I've submitted has received a reply within an hour, often through a call back or online session to help rectify any issues.

I would rate customer service and technical support an eight.

Positive

Since I've been with the organization, we've always been a primary Nutanix shop for our hypervisor, but for storage solutions, we've previously had EMC, several PowerScale appliances, and Seagate appliances in the flash storage side. Now, we try to bring everything in-house, getting a cluster with a lot of space and using all the hyper-converged storage on that cluster to minimize moving parts and points of failure.

I haven't had any major problems with pricing or setup for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS); everything was pretty easy from this plug and play perspective, and any problems I've had, I've always been able to hop on support and get a response within a 48-hour window. So, I don't find any issues with pricing or setup.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has definitely helped reduce our total cost of ownership, as centralizing that storage allowed us to eliminate all the other players we had on our premises and NASes, bringing everything under one roof.

If I had to guess, I would say we've reduced overall costs by approximately 35 to 40%, due to the various mileage agreements some other appliances had that we had to adhere to.

The biggest return on investment for me when using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has been time. Before we had to dig into numerous systems, leading to fragmented files scattered everywhere, but now everything is under one roof, in one place, and hands-up displays everything, which means I no longer have to worry about anything.

I would estimate the reduction of time or increase in efficiency is about 40% to 45%.

We did consider other solutions before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and we wanted a solution that the vendor supported, that was directly integrated with our hypervisor.

We looked at storage solutions from Quantum Store, from Veam, and almost every vendor in some capacity to integrate with Nutanix, but we found Nutanix solution was easy to get the licensing set up and install, and they supported it.

We are deployed on-prem.

My experience using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads, such as AI and ML in a hybrid cloud environment, is that we are actually looking at the Nutanix MC2 licensing to get a DR site spun up and run off a hybrid model, so I can't really speak to what that does for us now, but it is a solution we are considering to increase our DR footprint.

I am not using the Data Lens high cost feature of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) currently, but I actually just sent a message to my systems engineer about Data Lens to see what kind of feature sets we can use there to enhance how we handle storage today.

I found that the auditing features stood out to me, and they mentioned something about being able to integrate with our SOC SIM, which I definitely want to dive into to see how that integrates and what data they can offer our SIM, which will be useful for detecting advanced or basic attacks.

There is an occasional language barrier between some of the technicians, which can be challenging; however, that doesn't prevent us from being assisted, as they can remote in and use Pulse to view our cluster and gather logs and reports. It's more about my desire to understand deeply what's being done, modified, or changed so I know how to rectify issues myself in the future.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) an eight or nine out of ten.

Our main use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) include using it as a backup repository. 

We began to use NUS, historically known as Nutanix Files, as storage for backing up all the information from our Citrix profiles. We decided to use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the repository of our backup. 

We aim to improve our backup solution, and while we don't have all the results yet, we are implementing the solutions and expecting more from the integration between the nodes of Nutanix that process all the requests from the backup.

The most valuable feature of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for us is how it manages the requests from thousands of users we are hosting on our solution. I'm not sure of the name of the feature, however, the network storage we're using right now is very good.

The velocity and performance have been good. We typically struggled with slowness. Our previous storage solution named StorSimple, a Microsoft-based cloud solution, and after migrating to Nutanix Files, we see an improvement in velocity and performance.

Instead of using third-party storage repositories, we're working to integrate with Nutanix. 

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) needs improvement in compatibility with Windows solutions. Right now, we need to put it on Linus to use it effectively. As a Microsoft-heavy customer, it's important to work with Windows applications and infrastructure, and there are currently no solutions from Nutanix for that.

I've been using Nutanix Files for three years now.

I assess the stability and reliability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) as pretty stable since we haven't experienced a major incident since our first deployment.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) scales with the growing needs of our organization. It's easy; we just need to buy another physical node, and we can integrate it into the existing cluster.

I evaluate Nutanix's support services as very good; it's easy to access support, and the representatives who contact you usually have all the solutions ready and are very skillful. On a scale of one to ten, I rate their support as a nine. There's always room for improvement.

Positive

We used a cloud solution from Microsoft - StorSimple. We struggled with it being too slow. We migrated over to Nutanix and saw an immediate improvement on the performance. 

The deployment was very easy. We already had all the Nutanix nodes in the data center. We received the licensing and put it to work. 

We don't have that study yet on return on investments. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped reduce our total cost of ownership. 

We've reduced TCO. The move to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is profitable for us. In the past, we used to buy solutions from third parties, and now, with our large install base, the discounts we receive are very beneficial for us. We are saving approximately 20% to 25% compared with the competition.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is favorable. We are already involved in all the licensing features, and platinum solutions. It's a marginal cost to access these features is very reasonable.

Before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we considered solutions from Pure Storage, Dell Isilon, and also a traditional solution from Azure called Azure Files. What stood out positively in our evaluation of these products was Nutanix's more profitable pricing, and right now, we appreciate the performance we are experiencing.

Our impression of the cybersecurity features of Nutanix when dealing with unstructured data such as threats or malware is minimal since we don't use it for unstructured data repositories; we usually use it for a database. We're not using structured data yet, however, we are trying to do so; we have a license available for a proof of concept. We haven't started that yet. 

My advice for other companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that every company has their own needs, however, they should try the solution, compare it, and then make the best decision for their situation. 

I rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) nine out of ten.

Our primary use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) include having SQL servers located onsite at each of our locations, and we're using those to sometimes shoot that up into our Azure database or also into our centralized database in DC.

The feature that I find most useful in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is the integration with Nutanix Move where you can seamlessly integrate it into your storage. We use it initially to migrate from ESXi to AHV, and now we're using it to integrate into our EUS storage. After we're pushing that directly to our data center as a backup or easier centralization of it.

We've definitely had some cost benefits with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), which has been really nice, but also some speed benefits and ease of use. We've been able to click inside of one centralized management area, which has been a nice, centralized management platform to be able to transfer those off storage offers.

The overall costs saved with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is about $100,000 annually. We probably saved our engineers eight to ten hours per week of remedial tasks in terms of having to back up storage, push scripts, and set up automated scripts. Now, it's just a click of a button inside the platform. 

It's really efficient using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). It has an automatic check policy where you can just one-click check, and every day it goes and scrapes pulls everything. You also have that nice implementation security checks that automatically go nightly, and that also checks your EUS storage. It's a really nice feature we didn't have previously.

The integration feature with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) could be improved, maybe into a more stabilized version. It seems we've been having to update a lot with simple bug fixes, which is expected with a newer integration with the Cisco servers that we have. Having a long-term stable version would also be nice for customers who are more used to that.

We've currently been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for about five to six months now.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable. We came from the HX and that was more of a long-term stable one. They released the initial long-term support and kind of left it and didn't touch it. There is some differences with having to keep up with NAS firmware versions. LCM definitely helps keep that more seamless and integrated within that. 

Scaling up resources with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is seamless; it features one-click licensing all through the portal. It has definitely exceeded our expectations, and we very much appreciate the licensing and the way that we set up the support contracts.

Customer support has been super helpful. I had an incident last week and Nutanix was super quick. We were sent a Zoom link within ten minutes and we were back on in 30 minutes. It would have been nice if he had sent me the KBs afterward. I had to search for it myself. 

Positive

Before we had an outside HX Hyperflex data store, and now we all manage it integrated. We were using ESXi and Cisco. Now it's all Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) integrated, which helps with the EUS storage. I really appreciate that feature. 

I'm not the CIO, and I'm not the money manager. That said, comparatively, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is cheaper versus the current storage environment that our company had been leveraging since you don't have to overpay for storage, and you can build that as it is, then add those costs to the production value, the business sector. It makes sense that you can scale out as needed instead of over-provisioning or over-buying upfront because you're going to grow in three years.

We looked at HPE SimpliVity. We prefer Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is not for forcing you all into their platform as a software service. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is definitely more of an engineer mindset of, this is what we do, these are all the platforms that we have and use. You can go do your own research and see which ones you prefer, not 'This is our service that we only sell kind of platform,' which HPE SimpliVity forces us to use.

They also went into partnership with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and that's why their partnership with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is important - if they trust them, we should probably trust them as well. So, that's why we followed suit.

If anybody wants to see what's going on with their environments using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), if they could unlock it where File Analytics can hit any FSV and cluster, then that would be perfect. We're not there today. That will be something that they have to implement.

Definitely talk to your partners regarding Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS); see what options are best available. It was a really good option for us because we currently have Cisco's hardware everywhere. Our Cisco and CDW reps were definitely able to help us with the licensing, and it was 100% worth this for us. You need to always talk to your partners and make sure it's a viable option for you.

In the long run, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) will make it easier for us. Based on my experience, I rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) ten out of ten.

My use case for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that backups are supported, and I keep the hard disk of the virtual machines, and use it as a regular storage solution.

One of the best features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that it can be accommodated in every physical server in every cluster, and it can be migrated very fast, with no need to change in other private setups. When we remove the storage from one physical server to another, the virtualization allows for seamless migration—after clicking on the migration of a VM from another cluster to another, the storage automatically gets migrated. Everything is autoscaling in Nutanix, which is a great advantage.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) saves time complexities, and even though it is high priced, it improves performance significantly.

Based on the real-time scenario I mentioned, there is a 30% performance improvement observed with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

In terms of improvement areas for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), pricing is a significant issue, and another aspect is that the export of Nutanix backups does not support CD-ROMs, which is a disadvantage. Currently, it only supports QZ bus types for backups, which limits compatibility.

When comparing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) with other solutions in the market, it falls short because it only supports iSCSI backups, while competitors also support QZ, iSCSI, fiber channel, and NVMe storage.

The solution requires no maintenance for patching since it is designed effectively, but Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) does not support fiber channel connectivity or external attached storage through NAS, limiting its compatibility. Additionally, technical support response time and efficiency are lacking in comparison to competitors.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the last 2.5 years.

I am not using the Datalens high-cost feature of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

For stability, I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) at 8.5, as it shows good scalability under pressure.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) support at five out of ten.

My rating of five is based on the solution itself, not on the response time, which is actually well-designed, averaging 10 to 20 minutes. I'm looking for solutions rather than just quick responses.

Neutral

My experience with the deployment of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that it is very easy, extremely straightforward, and user-friendly.

It takes hardly an hour to deploy Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), which includes accommodating all the storage, adding the LUNs, and mapping the WWN number to the host from the storage box.

Regarding the cybersecurity feature for dealing with unstructured data like ransomware threats, I haven't encountered any ransomware issues on the Nutanix side, but I can say it offers strong data protection and centralized management via Prism Central, which is a beautiful architecture to protect the private cloud from hacking techniques. Its inbuilt data protection features, such as password management, key pass, and the ability to fix vulnerabilities with auto patch schedules, are noteworthy.

Overall, my organization has experienced feedback that is somewhat negative from clients regarding Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), primarily because it is high-cost in terms of storage and cloud management compared to competitors like VMware, which offers similar features at almost one-third of the price.

I have not seen anything related to AI in the storage side, but regarding workloads, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very fast in terms of migration and data access with respect to VM, OS, and storage. I experienced a scenario where we migrated a customer from Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to VMware, and after the migration, there were significant performance issues related to storage in VMware. We understood that there was a 30% lack of performance with SAP applications in VMware, which ran 30% faster on the Nutanix side, leading us to remigrate back to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

I would not recommend Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to other users or developers because it does not support fiber channel (FC) or NVMe storage, and only supports iSCSI, which I believe is outdated technology in today's market.

The primary drawback of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is its pricing, which is quite high. Another point is the lack of a practice lab for training users before they start using the platform; without an accessible practice lab, it's difficult for engineers and developers to understand how to work with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). Additionally, Nutanix lacks partnerships with other cloud vendors like SUSE KVM, which hinders migration opportunities between platforms and could limit its adoption among potential clients.

Overall, I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) a six out of ten.