Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Reviews

Our business needed a disaster recovery solution. We wanted something that could failover into Azure if our on-prem data center crashed or we lost power. We used to have bad power issues and needed a solution to failover into another data center to get everything running in under an hour. 

We need to figure out which VMs and applications to stand up first in Azure to get our business operational the fastest. That's what we hope to achieve with Nutanix Cloud Clusters. We need to have our failover scenario prepared with our existing infrastructure and Azure. 

Our existing infrastructure is a hybrid setup. We use private direct peering from our data center in Providence, Rhode Island, and we have a 12-gig express route with hub-and-spoke technology. We deployed NC2 on a spoke, and our hub is set up as a peer to that spoke. 

We have been looking for a good DR solution for about two years, and Nutanix Cloud Clusters has been awesome so far. We wanted a reliable platform that could shift our workload. We have a very low-latency connection. NC2 is excellent for disaster recovery versus Azure Site Recovery, Microsoft's DR solution. 

We spent a year on this ASR project and had so many issues when we attempted to do a failover. It took four to 24 hours to failover a couple of SQL VMs. During our first test deployment of NC2, it only took three or four minutes to failover and recover our VMs. This blew the Microsoft platform out of the water.   

One of the biggest reasons we switched to Nutanix Cloud Clusters was the VMware acquisition. A lot of customers are in the same boat. When the time came to renew our license, it was almost $2 million extra for the licensing alone without the additional hardware. We would spend $2 million for the licenses and not get anything else. We would also need to maintain the data center, rack space, switches, SAN, etc.

By moving to NC2, we could consolidate a ton of rack space and hardware and go hyper-converged everywhere. There is still maintenance that requires work, but it allows us to reduce the footprint inside our data center, making portability and manageability much easier.

We purchased Nutanix as a replacement for our previous disaster recovery solution. We originally used Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, but we had many problems. One of our partners who helps us with our major solutions suggested we check out NC2.

We are leveraging NC2 for our products to ensure they work how we want them to. In the event of a true disaster, we can failover into any cloud solution or back down to on-prem. Some of our applications run better on-prem, and some aspects of our operation must be on-prem. 

Our previous solution was inconsistent and took a long time to recover. NC2 consistently delivers full disaster recovery in a few hours. That was a huge selling point. We need to know that our business can be up and running in hours, not days. We didn't have a real disaster recovery plan before NC2. That's a goal we've been trying to achieve, and Nutanix gives us what we need to make that a reality

Hopefully, we never need to use it, but it's good to know we have it. It's like an insurance policy. We've never used it in a real DR situation, but based on test cases, I estimate that we've saved around a week's worth of time compared to ASR. NC2 has the potential to replace some of the other solutions that we use today, but we don't know yet.

We use Nutanix Cloud Clusters to deploy the organization's VMs and clusters. We are running those VMs now on OpenShift. Our current deployment is on-prem, but once we finish our Kubernetes deployment, we'll take the next step toward an AWS hybrid cloud. 

We can do anything throughout the infrastructure from one console. This is the best for us. NC2 has reduced our TCO in the private sector but not the public sector. In the public sector, state money is simply paid, no matter how much it costs. There is no need for efficiency. In the bank, there is a higher need for efficiency, so we are constantly looking for ways to reduce the TCO with NC2.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters simplifies our IT operations. What happened is that when we migrated from KVM to Nutanix, we had different clusters, and everything was mostly manual, including scripting, shells, and managing different blades. Switching to this graphical tool was something special. 

NC2 has increased our speed and given us the power to plot things faster than before. Before the deployment, everything was more complicated, and now managing the infrastructure is more seamless.

We started using the CICD theme a year ago, improving the infrastructure relationship even more. Now, it helps us be more productive and move faster.  Problem detection is much more accurate for us. Previously, we had specific clusters and had to look for where the most complicated problem was.

We used to have one data center with the Nutanix infrastructure cluster for disaster recovery purposes. The main data center is replicating the DR business continuity data center. Last year, we analyzed whether we could replace this data center with another cluster in the public cloud. That's what we did.

We installed Nutanix Cloud Clusters in Amazon AWS and replicated the VMs and the data from the main center to the data cluster in the cloud. The next step was to release this data center because we didn't need a physical data center with the infrastructure anymore, and the data would be replicated into the cloud and Nutanix Cloud Clusters.

We did this because of the cost, management, and administration. We don't need to lease the data center for DR anymore. We have physical equipment to manage over there because it's a data center that we are leasing. The second aspect is the flexibility for restoration or recovery.

Before this DR data center, we were in a fix if there was a problem with fire. We need to fix it first, and then we need to see if the equipment is not available anymore. With Nutanix Cloud Clusters, we can do a very quick recovery to the main data center or any other data center we choose.

If the main data center is not available anymore, we can restore it to any other data center. We have many data centers worldwide, so it adds more flexibility to us.

The solution's most valuable feature is its quick configuration and installation. They are really quick compared to any other configuration clusters I've seen before. Nutanix Cloud Clusters can be configured and installed in a couple of hours.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters has helped us reduce our total cost of ownership by 50 to 70k because we used it to replace a physical data center.

The license portability is excellent. We already had the Nutanix clusters and license at our DRP data center. We didn't need to buy more licenses when we moved to Nutanix Cloud Clusters because we migrated and used the licenses that were already available.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters has simplified our IT operations. It has saved us efforts in administering the entire data center.

One use case is for virtual machines or virtual servers.

NC2 improves team performance and productivity. It is very efficient for managing our organization’s applications and data. It is easy to use and very user-friendly.

There is also license portability. It is very good that it no longer depends on a physical team, and it can be contributed to different teams. It is very useful.

NC2 has helped us reduce our total cost of ownership by 15% to 20%. Because everything is integrated, in general, it helps to reduce all costs.

I believe without any doubt that Nutanix is ​​one of the few companies that focuses on making the lives of systems engineers easier. All their applications are very easy to use. The philosophy of doing everything with one click is applied in Nutanix technology.

We use it for disaster recovery protection for our enterprise applications in AWS S3. It allows us to have high availability and safeguard the information very easily without having additional expenses.

I have used NC2 to migrate enterprise applications. NC2 is very fast and efficient. It synchronizes, and it compresses. I have done many activities of this type, and it works very well.

We need to exit our private data center and migrate to the public cloud. Transforming all our systems and the native cloud is very challenging. NC2 gives us the ability to migrate to the public cloud while giving us more time to transform all these applications that we have into modern apps.

The product gives us the ability to migrate to the public cloud without external resource recruitment. 

We did not need to spend a lot of money transforming our apps. That allows the technologists and IT to focus on other areas of the business, including AI and automation, and improve these instead of worrying about migration to the public cloud. 

We primarily use the product for sports betting. It was for nonregulated applications.

I was able to lower the number of people I needed to do the same level of work as on VMware. Where I needed a team of six on VMware, with Nutanix, I only required a team of two.

We have some workloads that we want to get from on-premises to the cloud, and we're doing some test cases on the migrations of our virtual machines to NC2. That's part of the plan (especially for the G4 nodes, which are out of support).

We're looking into the pros and cons of replacing the actual hardware versus moving it to a Nutanix cloud.

Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful. The integration within Prism Central is great.

We're looking at it for our application team so that they can have choices and allow them to use cloud clusters.