Nutanix Prism Reviews

Name: Nutanix Prism
Brand: Nutanix
Rating: 4 (59 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

59 reviews
98% willing to recommend

What is Nutanix Prism?

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

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Nutanix Prism is the #3 ranked solution in top Virtualization Management Tools and #4 ranked solution in top Data Center Infrastructure Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Nutanix Prism an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Nutanix Prism is most commonly compared to Veeam Data Platform: Nutanix Prism vs Veeam Data Platform. Nutanix Prism is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 64% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 26% of all views.

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Arpan Rakshit

IT System Administrator at Bandhan Bank

The feature that stands out for me is the simplicity and ease of use. That is what comes to mind when I think about the Prism console. You don't need to be a core technical person to manage a cluster. Everything is available in the console itself. Anyone with basic knowledge can work on a Nutanix Prism cluster. The beauty of this product is its simplicity and ease of use. The single-pane-of-glass user experience means you can manage multiple clusters, not only a single cluster, in your data center. You can do pretty much everything from the same console. Prism management and the day-to-day activities can be done through the single console. We use the Prism Flow module, which has the microsegmentation functionality for Nutanix clusters. That module can be accessed from Prism Central, the single pane of glass. We can build the microsegmentation and manage and visualize all the traffic.

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BradBurgess

Sr. Infrastructure Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

All of it is valuable. With Nutanix, you can run VMware or you can run Nutanix's own hypervisor, called AHV, and the Prism solution lets you manage both from one place. The single pane of glass user experience that Prism provides is pretty intuitive and simple, it's not over-complicated. And the user interface for compute, storage, and networking is very easy because everything is right where you would expect it. Any options that you need are all within the Prism interface. Overall, it has a nice GUI and it's easy to understand and navigate. And for optimizing performance, it does a pretty good job because there's a feature that lets you drill down into VMs that may be constrained or that are "bully" VMs. You can tell which are the ones where you may need to adjust the memory or CPU. In addition, it's easy to spin up VMs and makes cluster maintenance easy, especially with the LCM (Life Cycle Manager) that is built-in. That helps do installs of AHV or even ESXi. You can also upgrade the AOS software that runs the Nutanix clusters. And you can upgrade the firmware, which is nice. And while we don't have it set up, you can turn on self-service so that people can create their own VMs and manage their own machines.

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Vuong Pham

Senior Solutions Architect at Nth Generation Computing

We run some workloads on the cloud but mostly on local data centers. We could also have a ROBO office installation, like a remote branch office. Nutanix is used for just the management of the cluster. Nutanix is used for databases and generic virtualization workloads. We even have some desktops. I have all the use cases that various customers and various sectors describe. Using Nutanix Prism has reduced the complexity of the management of the solution. There's not a lot to configure for Prism to work. It's preinstalled out of the box. It’s good. Our operations are simplified. Nutanix Prism’s user interface is very powerful and very simple. The single-pane-of-glass user experience is very powerful. Prism Central is very powerful and very simple. We can get a lot done. There are versions of Prism for each node and each cluster. We can manage multiple Nutanix clusters with Prism Central. It can control all the different clusters together. I do not use Nutanix for automation much. However, we can take advantage of the built-in features if we need them. The network visibility and micro-segmentation of Nutanix Prism works, but it's a limited use case with just micro-segmentation. The same tag we use on-premises can't be reused in the cloud. It's limited. Nutanix Prism can do some predictive analysis, which is helpful. Especially when we're trying to manage capacity, it can determine workload based on past behavior. The statistical analysis helps us to preplan. It has helped improve the efficiency of our organization’s IT management. It works to improve the efficiency by simplifying the task at hand. It has decreased our effort by 30 to 40%. Nutanix Prism has helped the productivity of our organization’s application developers. We can provision environments for them faster with less effort. It helps DevOps because the team can get the environment it needs to start working on its projects. Nutanix Prism is a little behind on some things related to security posture. Prism has a built-in life cycle management, so we feel more enabled to tackle the tasks. Nutanix Prism is a good product. However, there’s still room for improvement. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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Nutanix Prism mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of Nutanix Prism in the Virtualization Management Tools category stands at 15.8%, up from 9.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Jul 31, 2024

Valuable Features

"Simplicity, automation, and efficiency are some good areas associated with the tool."
"Everything is available within one console."
"Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling."

Room for Improvement

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Nutanix Prism does not have a built-in backup tool."
"There can be some constraints on how it scales, making granular scaling difficult with the product."

Pricing

"I rate the product price as an eight out of ten."
"Sangfor is cheaper than Nutanix."
"I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap."

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