Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

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.

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.

Our primary use case for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is basically everything; we are a Nutanix shop now, and it is what we are using for our infrastructure entirely, with VMware and all the VMware data and storage.

One of the main features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) that I find most valuable is the flexibility and scalability of it, as well as the ability to perform replication for our Disaster Recovery environment.

These specific features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are valuable to my organization as they reduce the overhead, and having a relatively small IT team makes it important to set it and forget it.

My team is not managing manual or repetitive tasks; instead, we concentrate on higher value projects, and that is one of the things we are interested in exploring more within Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) with other features. As we expand, having less hands-on or manual intervention becomes critical to maintain a certain overhead in the team without incurring additional costs while keeping the team focused on other important tasks.

From utilizing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we haven't had any issues for the past years since we implemented it; it has been low maintenance and has high availability or redundancy, allowing us to worry less about it. You set it, get to know it, and then you set it and forget it.

The stability and reliability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are very high; we have never had any issues. The only downside might be the licensing cost, but ultimately, you pay for what you get.

We have seen reduced overheads and increased efficiency with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

We haven't had any issues with the solution for years. It's very low maintenance and offers high availability and low redundancy. That's the value of it. You set it and forget it. 

I don't have an answer for how Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) can be improved.

The pricing can be quite high.

They mentioned that there's support for additional encryption beyond the SMB feature on Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), which would allow us to utilize other platforms alongside Nutanix. I'd like to explore that.

We are going on almost seven years now of using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

We've never had any issues with stability. It's set and forget. 

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) support has been very good; we never had issues and didn't use them much, which is a good sign. When we did need them, they were responsive, and even our account manager was proactive in reaching out for potential troubleshooting before problems arose, which my team found very satisfactory.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) support a solid eight or nine out of ten. I am trying to find a reason not to give them a ten, as they have consistently met our needs. We have had minimal interactions with them, and I don't see a reason to give them a lower score.

Positive

We were on a completely different platform with EqualLogic before migrating over to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and the initial licensing worked in our favor. The flexibility, scalability, and stability of Nutanix were well worth the transition.

One of the main factors that led us to consider a change to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) was the need for a new architecture or design, as our previous system was getting dated. We explored alternatives rather than renewing our contract with the old system, and the impressive demos and presentations we experienced with Nutanix did not disappoint us.

We have witnessed ROI. Luckily, we haven't had the need to use it. Especially with data replication, we need to simulate the resiliency of the data when doing tests. Everything in a simulated environment has been positive. Instead of spending four to eight hours to do it, we're able to do it in one hour.

I have been encouraging other companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to switch, despite the initial high software licensing cost, because it justifies itself in the long run. While the cost of ownership is high, it offers a good return on investment overall. The scalability challenge with previous systems is lessened with Nutanix since we can expand by adding new hardware without needing migrations.

The cost is high, however, you get what you pay for.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has changed since we started; especially with the Smart DR, the cost has doubled for the same amount of data, which was a challenge when presenting use case justifications for the increased cost. We've been working with Nutanix to maintain a certain amount of data on a reduced cost basis.

The advantage of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) over other providers like Dell or Cisco is the full package; while they can host Nutanix environments, my confidence in Nutanix comes from our experience over the last six to seven years, where we have never had any issues.

We are going to explore the Data Lens cost optimization feature very soon; I was introduced to Data Lens last month, went through a demo, and I am very much interested in seeing what Data Lens offers, looking into implementing it in the near future.

My impression of the cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data like ransomware threats is that it is always a concern. We are looking into the Data Lens for that reason. We are worried about having lots of data and there's always this worry about security. While we currently have our backup provided by the colocation data center, we are considering Data Lens to start performing our own data backups.

Overall, if I were to rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) based on the licensing cost, I'd give it a seven out of ten.

Our main use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are for infrastructure, serving the entire agency, including Active Directory. It's the main part of the agency. If Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) goes down, everybody goes down.

The migration and transition from VMware was less trouble. The replication and clustering have also been useful. When we need to shut down one node or Nutanix hardware, it automatically moves to a different one. This is less of a headache for us and ensures no service interruption. 

What I find most valuable about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that it's a smoother transition from VMware, and currently, it's more stable than VMware, especially after Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) updated many things a couple of years ago to meet requirements from our infosec and security team.

The features I find most valuable have benefited our company through the migration process.

The migration from VMware to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is less complex and less troublesome, and the replication and clustering are very good. When we need to shut down one of the nodes or hardware, it automatically transitions to the others, taking less headache from us and not interrupting our service during the upgrade or migration.

We're looking for a hybrid environment. We're working to consolidate to the cloud or to go hybrid. That will be our goal in one to two years - to do things with less complexity in a hybrid cloud environment. 

We haven't had any security events. Nutanix is good in that regard. 

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) needs improvement, particularly for firmware upgrades, as sometimes updates take a whole day and it can be unclear whether the issue is with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) or the hardware, requiring us to reconfigure everything, which is a main point we want consolidated into one solution.

Regarding the cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data such as ransomware threats, we haven't seen any issues yet, and the security looks good. However, it always needs improvement as technology evolves.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for almost four years already.

The reliability and stability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are very good, and after almost four or five years of usage, we haven't encountered significant issues.

It has scaled to our needs, but currently, we are unclear on what the agency specifically wants to achieve concerning cost and space reductions.

Regarding customer service and technical support, I find the technical support to be good, while customer service is very strong due to our good relationship with our Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) account manager, although technical support can sometimes be challenging due to time zone differences.

I would rate the customer service and technical support as an eight out of ten.

Positive

We considered VMware and Windows Hyper-V, along with some cloud solutions. We opted for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) because it offers a lower total cost and requires less space in our data center.

I would describe my experience with the deployment of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) as easy; it was easier than the other products, taking almost less than three or four days to deploy the entire cluster, and we migrated from VMware to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) in under a month.

Using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has reduced our cost of ownership significantly. For example, we've gone from five racks to only two racks. This represents nearly a 50% reduction. The reduction benefits us through power consumption and other hardware efficiencies and provides us with a good ROI.

My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that the licensing costs are better than VMware, especially with our decade-long experience with VMware.

There aren't many differences between these products we considered since the technology theory is similar, but Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has less complexity compared to the others, which is why we chose it.

We are currently looking into AI. We haven't implemented it yet. We need to find a service that meets our AI requirements. It's a new agency requirement. We're observing right now to figure out what will work for us in AI.

We haven't decided to use it yet because we want to see how that feature helps us, and sometimes we don't have enough people to manage it since our shop only has two or three folks running Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

To make it a ten, we need improvements in customer service, and after using it for four or five years, we want to see how smoothly future upgrades and migrations go, especially if we consider moving to a Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) cloud solution.

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

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

We are deploying Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for a client. We are using Nutanix Files for one of the Kubernetes platforms for storage volume. We need to map the storage, so we are using Nutanix Files and a CSI driver. We are mapping Nutanix Files to OpenShift.

Additionally, the main objective of using Nutanix Files is to replace on-premise storage appliances. Customers are spending substantial money on buying NetApp, EMC storage, or a separate storage unit for NAS file systems. We have a Nutanix platform for compute. They are already onboarded. They can utilize our Nutanix HCA hardware for file systems. It helps to avoid storage costs.

The benefit for our customers is cost effectiveness. The customer is spending substantial money refreshing NetApp storage. We identified a use case from a NAS point of view. Using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) helps in reducing costs, as they are not spending a dedicated cost for storage procurement. They can use our HCA hardware itself for the NAS file system.

With traditional NAS file systems, we have a challenge with archiving and how data is modified. We don't have control. We just onboarded Nutanix Lens. From a cybersecurity point of view, it gives a view of changes, and it also provides visibility into the archive aspect, such as the data not changing for more than a year or a long time. It gives very good visibility.

Its features can be further enhanced from the DR and high availability points of view to match other vendors, such as NetApp. It has snapshot, replication, high availability, and other data and storage-level replication, but there are some limitations.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for almost three years.

The stability and reliability depend on the VMs deployed while creating the namespace.

So far, scaling Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is not challenging. It is performing well. At the same time, we are also not giving a lot of workload. We will come to know if we add more load, in terms of applications or user onboarding, which will show the real performance. As of now, it's good.

Nutanix support is awesome and good. For the last three to five years, we have been on a journey to make our customers exit VMware and onboard AHV. We have 90% of our environment virtualized, with 88% already converted to AHV. Only 2% is still run on VMware because some applications do not support AHV for some unknown reason. We have a dedicated Nutanix team to support us, so there is no challenge. We get very good support.

I would rate their support an eight out of ten. I'm reducing two points because there are still some ongoing issues that we are following up on. It's not that they are not supporting us, but it may take time to resolve some issues, such as compatibility issues with other tools.

Positive

The customer is using NetApp File share, and they also explored EMC storage. They wanted to standardize the vendor with respect to storage and compute. 

They evaluated NetApp for the benefits of NAS file systems and file sharing. However, EMC involved more costs and added additional physical devices in the data center, which is a challenge they are still facing.

They went for Nutanix because of the desire to go with a single vendor. They don't want to engage with multiple vendors for storage, such as IBM, NetApp, EMC, etc. They want to standardize the vendor for storage and compute.

As part of the NAS deployment, we have to create a file system cluster in Nutanix Central. Based on the requirements, we then create three or five VMs. Whenever we create a new namespace, we need to add more servers and more VMs, which generates CVMs inside Prism Central. 

Managing CVMs and managing VMs is not storage-specific. It is completely compute-specific. Hence, the storage team doesn't have complete visibility. It is still the compute team that has that visibility. The customer is trying to educate the storage team to explore Nutanix.

Our customers have seen a return on their investment with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). As mentioned, we are trying to avoid purchasing NetApp storage. We are utilizing existing Nutanix hardware to create a NAS. There is a very good return on investment from the customer's point of view.

The licensing currently works based on a software license. If we have files, volumes, and other licenses combined, that would be more valuable. I don't want to go for a separate license for files and a separate license for volumes. We have unified storage, so the licensing should also be unified. That would be helpful.

Other companies considering Nutanix can seriously adopt Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). If they want to go for software-defined storage and think about a future software-defined data center, they can utilize Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

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