Nutanix Flow Network Security needs to improve threat hunting, compliance, and policy optimization - these things that security officers would use. Making these aspects clearer would enable easier management. Creating an AI for app segmentation planning or anomaly detections could be beneficial. While it already has anomaly detection and compliance reports, a single AI solution that could create future analysis about what should be done in the network would be advantageous.
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 5
Jul 22, 2024
Last time I used it, it was not handy to see or to analyze traffic logs. As a Check Point partner as well, we have some more expectations to log in. Probably, it's possible to forward all the traffic logs to a log system, but I'm not very into it. It is not very intuitive. A lot of manual tasks are needed to achieve that. But it's possible, and it would be nice to maybe have better examples in the guides or to have another integrated log system to analyze the traffic logs.
While the graphical interface of Nutanix Flow Network Security could have been improved, and some of the reporting features needed extra work, the product's features were similar to VMware's NSX. The difference lay more in the presentation and user interface. I am not able to recall the specifics, but I vaguely remember encountering a minor issue with the product's graphical interface. My sales engineer was helpful in identifying that I was using a different approach than what was anticipated when expanding the object to view the communication protocols. However, I don't have any further information about the issue.
Telcommunications expert at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Apr 10, 2022
For customers who are running Nutanix Flow and AHV, the largest area for improvement is in the disaster recovery environments. To automate the populate of rules from one side to the other side in case of disaster you report everything on the disaster recovery site, and you have all the rules automatically applied. This was something that was being built when I left Nutanix. It might already be available. Additionally, the usability of the rules editor could improve.
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Technology Consultant at Beta Information Technology
Real User
Top 10
Oct 26, 2021
Nutanix Flow's networking features could use some improvement. Also, I don't know if it's currently supporting load balancing or not. Lately, we've been working a bit more with Nutanix Calm. We're trying to invest more in Calm and deliver solutions based on that platform. But it is still a new software. It's a new solution for automation and helping customers develop a private cloud. We are still facing a lot of challenges in Calm, but in the future, we will focus on Calm and Era our customers benefit a lot from these products. Era is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution that we plan to promote to the customer along with Calm because Calm minimizes the time and operations efforts of the customer.
Flow Network Security is a stateful, distributed, microsegmentation firewall. It is provided as part of NCI Ultimate or as part of the optional Security Add-On package for NCI Pro.
Nutanix Flow Network Security needs to improve threat hunting, compliance, and policy optimization - these things that security officers would use. Making these aspects clearer would enable easier management. Creating an AI for app segmentation planning or anomaly detections could be beneficial. While it already has anomaly detection and compliance reports, a single AI solution that could create future analysis about what should be done in the network would be advantageous.
Last time I used it, it was not handy to see or to analyze traffic logs. As a Check Point partner as well, we have some more expectations to log in. Probably, it's possible to forward all the traffic logs to a log system, but I'm not very into it. It is not very intuitive. A lot of manual tasks are needed to achieve that. But it's possible, and it would be nice to maybe have better examples in the guides or to have another integrated log system to analyze the traffic logs.
The solution’s pricing could be improved.
While the graphical interface of Nutanix Flow Network Security could have been improved, and some of the reporting features needed extra work, the product's features were similar to VMware's NSX. The difference lay more in the presentation and user interface. I am not able to recall the specifics, but I vaguely remember encountering a minor issue with the product's graphical interface. My sales engineer was helpful in identifying that I was using a different approach than what was anticipated when expanding the object to view the communication protocols. However, I don't have any further information about the issue.
We would like the reporting functionality of this solution to be improved.
For customers who are running Nutanix Flow and AHV, the largest area for improvement is in the disaster recovery environments. To automate the populate of rules from one side to the other side in case of disaster you report everything on the disaster recovery site, and you have all the rules automatically applied. This was something that was being built when I left Nutanix. It might already be available. Additionally, the usability of the rules editor could improve.
Nutanix Flow's networking features could use some improvement. Also, I don't know if it's currently supporting load balancing or not. Lately, we've been working a bit more with Nutanix Calm. We're trying to invest more in Calm and deliver solutions based on that platform. But it is still a new software. It's a new solution for automation and helping customers develop a private cloud. We are still facing a lot of challenges in Calm, but in the future, we will focus on Calm and Era our customers benefit a lot from these products. Era is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution that we plan to promote to the customer along with Calm because Calm minimizes the time and operations efforts of the customer.