Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

Right now, my main use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are running most of our server and database. When you are selling; you are selling all in a box, and the minimum storage is more than the maximum that we need. It means that I have enough storage to do whatever I need there. I manage everything in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). 

The main purpose that I used it for in the beginning was for Citrix, and for Citrix, everything was on Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS); all the database, all the file server, and everything was on the servers.

In the beginning, when they sold us Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), they told us the performance would be 30%. Then we came to them and said, 'You are a liar. It's not 30%, it's 800% increase.' The processes that we used to do over five or six minutes now only takes 20 seconds. It is much faster, much smoother, and I don't need to deal with all the network and everything; everything is in one place. Everything is within one box. It works without any interruption.

If one physical server goes down, immediately, in five or six seconds, it shifts to another physical server. For us, this is nothing; it freezes for five to six seconds, and then immediately, we continue to work, and that's crucial for us since the business can continue.

I am very happy with the cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats; so far it's all working effectively for me, and it works with Palo Alto, another company that they're collaborating with, and so far it's all good despite a few attacks.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is helping reduce my total cost of ownership. This is why I have been using it for six years and have renewed it three times. I have seen a return on investment while using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS); anywhere you are paying, it does not matter if you are paying EMC or Nutanix. The issue is that you are getting everything in one company, and you don't need to work with three companies, and the system's stability is the main benefit for me.

Regarding Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)'s performance for high throughputs and low latency requirements in AI and ML workflows, the problem is that we need to invest a lot of money to get AI, and therefore, we are not going to purchase AI right now because I work in a global company, and they need to figure out who we are working with, and everything. It's not something I can decide; if it was packaged or something similar, maybe I would use it. Right now, in the way that it is, I don't know where I'm going.

I really want some AI or even basic AI to be included in the Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) license. Even if it's basic, if I can do some AI on the information that I have already, that could be great, even if it's simple. I think they are making a mistake by adding everything extra because for big organizations, you need to show ROI, and if you are just playing with it, you won't have ROI.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for six or seven years already.

I assess the stability and reliability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) very positively.

It scales well. I started with two or three servers, and I have added almost 20.

Customer support has been fine. I rate the customer service and technical support of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) as nine out of ten.

Before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), I used VMware and EMC.

The setup was good. We had a great team that helped. 

The deployment of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) support worked effectively; I have good people, and I have a great team supporting me from Nutanix. I can manage it by myself.

The solution is helping reduce TCO. In six years, we've renewed three times. 

What could make my rating of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) a ten out of ten is the price. It is a bit expensive. Generally, I am okay with the pricing. When we negotiate we come to a price that is affordable. 

I considered VMware as another solution before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and I pressured them very hard.

We are not working in a real cloud with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS); we are working in a private cloud, which means we are hosting the machine, and it's our cloud because of security and all this stuff, and it's working great.

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

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

Our primary use case for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that we have all the critical workloads, such as SQL DBA and application servers. More than 1000 critical applications are running on Nutanix in our environment.

The most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are its unique storage features. It provides robust performance, and we are using all NVMe drives. Our SQL database previously was on SSDs, which had less performance on VMware; after migrating to AHV in Nutanix storage, we are seeing a significant difference in I/O performance, and the database performance is excellent compared to the previous setup.

The performance of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) increased almost 50%. Earlier, we experienced many issues with latency and SQL performance, but now we are not receiving any incidents. 

We have additional benefits from using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), as we are using it for Nutanix files and Nutanix objects, which are performing exceptionally within the system. We are mostly using all Nutanix files within their cluster, and our performance is very good compared to our old NAS storage.

I assess the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be one of its notable features, as we don't see any issues; it's seamless to attach additional nodes whenever we need to scale or if we only want to increase storage. We have the option of adding only storage nodes, which is a very good feature.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) can be improved in the area of big data workloads, as we still need to improve performance there. With big data going with Kubernetes, we need to have something more robust than the existing performance.

We have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for almost five years.

Compared to earlier, our infrastructure is more stable, and we have not seen any P1 incidents in the last five years.

The scalability is seamless.

In terms of overall support from Nutanix for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), I have been providing good feedback to them for the last five years, stating they are excellent in terms of support. What's missing to get it to a ten is that I'm hearing that the Indian time zone is not getting proper support from the US zone right now. As a result, we are experiencing worse support.

Positive

Before this, we were using NetApp. Before selecting Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we considered other solutions such as NetApp storage and IBM storage as well.

The primary reason we switched to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that we were moving from VMware to AHV, and during that time, we discovered compatible hardware within Nutanix. We are using NX models, with more than 1000 nodes, which gives us a robust infrastructure.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped reduce our total cost of ownership. I don't have exact figures, however, it might be around 20%.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that compared to other vendors, Nutanix is very reasonable. Compared to vendors such as NetApp and others, we are getting the host and storage together giving more robust performance.

We are not using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for high throughput and low latency requirements in AI or ML workloads currently, but we are planning to use it along with the NKP in our future roadmap, which is to use NKP in both on-prem and Cloud.

My impression of the cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, is that we are using different tools for that, and we are not owning the Nutanix tool. I know Nutanix Data Seek or some tool is being used for detecting malware, however, we are not leveraging that tool since we already have different tools in cyber managing it and we are depending on them.

We are not using Data Lens, the high-cost feature of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), not yet. My advice to other companies thinking about purchasing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that we always prefer Nutanix with NVMe drives so that performance will be better. I would rate it an eight because in terms of big data performance, we still need a more robust solution. They currently fall on a scale of six to seven for me in terms of big data performance. 

The overall rating for this solution is six out of ten.

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.

Day to day, I use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for storage backups, backing up virtual machine databases, Kubernetes workloads, and object storage for backups and application data.

In Nutanix NKP cluster, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) provides shared file storage for my applications and supports multi-site disaster recovery environments while providing centralized storage management across different Kubernetes clusters.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) best feature is the unified storage for different platforms. It supports file storage, object storage, block storage, and strong integration with different types of platforms.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is helpful in multiple environments as it integrates with Nutanix AHV hypervisor, Kubernetes platforms, and hybrid cloud environments as a backend storage for different platforms with strong integration. Additionally, centralized management through Prism Central makes it easier to use.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has simplified my storage management across different workloads and improved application performance and availability while supporting hybrid cloud and modern applications with centralized management. This has reduced my operational overhead.

Performance was improved and time was saved for managing storage and DC/DR environment through Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

Licensing cost of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is higher for smaller organizations. Additionally, advanced configuration requires Nutanix expertise, which can be improved.

There is limited third-party ecosystem compared to traditional storage vendors for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), so that can be improved.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the past one and a half years.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is stable in my experience.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has great scalability. It can scale out or scale in to different architecture with all nodes to expand capacity. It also supports enterprise-scale storage workloads and is capable of handling large VM environments, container workloads, and big data applications.

Customer support for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is ten out of ten.

Previously, I was using SAN storage. I faced challenges with complex management and scaling limitations, which resulted in high operational overhead. I switched to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) as it is a single unified storage solution with better scalability and automation using Nutanix AI.

I did not evaluate any other options before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

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

I chose nine out of ten because cost can be high and it requires Nutanix ecosystem knowledge, which is where I deducted that one point.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) provides good security, management becomes easier, and with integration with Nutanix AI, it becomes easier to manage and monitor.

I find Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) accuracy to be ninety percent plus, which is good. It provides great capability and data accuracy, and you can rely on their output as it provides good results that can be easier to manage your data and use it in your workloads.

If others are looking for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), it is a strong solution for organizations seeking to simplify their enterprise storage management with support for virtualization, cloud-native applications, and hybrid cloud from a single platform. They can easily switch and manage it.

Time was saved using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), but it required a few more employees with great knowledge of Nutanix. I rate this solution nine out of ten overall.

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.

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 primary use case for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is centralized data storage and management across different workloads, as it provides file, object, and volume storage from a single platform, making it easier to manage unstructured data, application data, backups, and user file shares. I also primarily use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to simplify storage management while supporting enterprise applications.

I recently used Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to provide centralized file storage for virtualized workloads. Instead of managing multiple storage systems, we were able to use a single platform to host shared files, application data, and backup repositories while maintaining consistent management and security policies.

One additional benefit I noticed was the ability to manage file, object, and block storage through a unified interface, which simplifies operations and reduces administrative complexity.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the past six to seven months, and based on my experience, I can say that the unified storage platform is one of the best features. There are also different features such as simplified management, scalability, data protection, and security, and all of these are the best features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

Out of these features, the most valuable feature for me is unified management because having file, object, and volume storage available from a single platform reduces the need to manage multiple storage products and simplifies day-to-day administration.

The biggest positive impact I have noticed is simplified storage operations and improved visibility. By consolidating storage services onto a unified platform, administrators can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time supporting business requirements.

One area for improvement I noticed while using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is expanding advanced analytics and predictive capacity planning capabilities to help administrators make even better long-term storage decisions.

More guided deployment and migration workflows could definitely help organizations adopt the platform more quickly and reduce implementation effort.

I have been working in my current field as a professional for more than nine to ten months.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is designed for enterprise environments and has been reliable for supporting business-critical workloads, so I can say it is quite stable in my opinion.

Scalability is one of its strongest features, as organizations can expand storage capacity and performance as requirements grow without significantly changing management processes.

Nutanix provides enterprise-grade support, documentation, knowledge bases, and technical assistance, and the support experience is generally considered strong, particularly for organizations running critical infrastructure. I would definitely rate the customer support a ten.

My advice for others looking into using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is to clearly understand your storage requirements before implementation and evaluate current and future needs for file, object, and block storage while taking advantage of the platform's unified management capabilities. I would rate this product a nine overall.

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.