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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure reduces costs and improves efficiency by simplifying IT management and decreasing power consumption for better ROI.
Sentiment score
7.5
Nutanix Cloud Manager offers swift ROI with reduced costs, increased efficiency, and quicker recovery through enhanced scalability and automation.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.1
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's support is praised for expertise and responsiveness, justifying its cost despite some language barriers.
Sentiment score
8.3
Nutanix Cloud Manager's support is highly praised for responsiveness, expertise, quick issue resolution, and personalized service despite time zone challenges.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure offers user-friendly scalability with easy expansion, efficiently supporting various workloads and business sizes.
Sentiment score
7.9
Nutanix Cloud Manager offers scalable, centralized management with seamless expansion, predictive planning, and extensive automation for diverse enterprise sizes.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is highly stable, reliable, and scalable, offering exceptional uptime and support with minimal disruptions.
Sentiment score
8.1
Nutanix Cloud Manager is praised for stability, reliability, and support, making it a dependable choice for infrastructure management.
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Enhancements are needed in setup, pricing, performance, network, integrations, migration, security, control, documentation, licensing, connectivity, and interface.
Nutanix Cloud Manager users desire enhanced UI, VM organization, integration, automation, transparent pricing, and improved stability and support.
Quick resolution of disconnection issues and errors in plugins is crucial.
 

Setup Cost

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure offers competitive pricing, flexible licensing, and significant ROI, appealing for its performance and simplicity in management.
Nutanix Cloud Manager provides competitive pricing and rapid ROI, enabling flexible scaling and value with customizable tiers and discounts.
 

Valuable Features

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure excels in performance, scalability, and ease of use, offering seamless multi-cloud integration and cost-effective virtualization.
Nutanix Cloud Manager simplifies IT with centralized management, automation, quick recovery, predictive analytics, and improved productivity and flexibility.
The file server is the best feature because it supports different vendors such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware without locking with a specific vendor.
 

Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructur...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
196
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (3rd), HCI (3rd), Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (1st), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (4th)
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (3rd), Cloud Management (2nd), Virtualization Management Tools (4th), Cloud Cost Management (3rd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is designed for HCI and holds a mindshare of 8.0%, down 8.7% compared to last year.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 6.5% mindshare, up 4.4% since last year.
HCI
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Sisir Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Scales easily, helps with consolidation, and enables us to clone a VM
Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy. Previously, it was there, but after certain updates, we found that they have withdrawn those services. For example, you requested a VM, and based on the business use case, I approved it and gave you a bare-metal server. Now you are the owner of that particular VM, so whatever you need, you should be able to do over there, but currently, you have to request me for the installation of the OS that you need, and I have to do it. It is an overhead for the HCI administrator. If that can be offloaded to the VM owners, that will be much easier for us. I have already shared this feedback with Nutanix.
Declan Fleming - PeerSpot reviewer
We can look at all accounts with one dashboard and save a ton of money by having awareness of how we're spending
Some of the UI is a little clunky. They do listen when I tell them about this, but one thing that drives me insane is that it defaults to a cumulative view of how much you've spent, as opposed to day-to-day. Even when you've selected day-to-day, you have to turn off a cumulative switch. They've done some work on fixing that in the UI, but I don't know why they're thinking that way and why they think people would want to look at it that way. The one thing I wish it had was that it worked more closely and more cleanly with custom data inputs, which I know is a lot to ask. It could probably have a nice warning page for all the things. Not for me, not for the big administrator, but for all my users to whom I give accounts so that they can look at their own things. It would be helpful if they had a landing page that just said, "Hey, you're losing money here. You're possibly losing here or there." It expects you to have a certain amount of knowledge of what you're doing when you first come in. It does have a dashboard, but it's very esoteric. Something just right on top that says "You're bleeding cash right here," and a graphic would be nice. If I want to set up a new account, there's no API. It's all done by hand. It would help us in the deployment of new users if there was a new user API that we could call with a program, as opposed to doing it by hand. We would like to be able to report how busy our machines are so that if a machine has been sitting there idle all week, we should turn it off. Sometimes, it's not just how busy the processor was, it's also about how much RAM was being taken up when that thing was running. Often, it can run low CPU and high RAM, and we still have to keep it running because of that. There is this arcane workaround to get that to work by installing something special on the individual machines one by one. Deploying that way is very arcane. I wish there was a better way of doing that. It seems it works with CloudWatch, at least on AWS, or CloudTrail, to do it, but I don't know for sure. They probably would've done it if it was easy, but it would help a lot if, in the deployment, it also was aware of memory usage, not just CPU usage by default.
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Comparison Review

it_user244362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2015
Nutanix vs. VMware EVO:RAIL vs. FlexPod
Originally posted at www.storagegaga.com/dont-get-too-drunk-on-hyper-converged/ I hate the fact that I am bursting the big bubble brewing about Hyper Convergence (HC). I urge all to look past the hot air and hype frenzy that are going on, because in the end, the HC platforms have to be aligned…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
34%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
38%
Educational Organization
21%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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Which would you choose - Nutanix Acropolis AOS or VMware vSAN?
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Which set of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) features do you find to be the most useful?
For me, the features related to cost savings are the best part of NCM. Of course, the whole product is worth using and when it comes to cloud management, there is a reason why it is favored by so m...
Are the setup process and further maintenance of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) difficult?
When I came into my current organization, NCM was already set up. According to the team that dealt with it, the product was fairly easy to set up. Compared to other products, our IT rates are set u...
Is Nutanix Cloud Manager’s Intelligent Operations feature effective?
Yes, this is a highly effective feature and the rebranding only made things better as they introduced more improvements. You can benefit from Zero coding task automation Automated optimization Tic...
 

Also Known As

Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Acropolis
Nutanix Cloud Manager Intelligent Operations, Nutanix Cloud Manager Self-Service, Nutanix Cloud Management Cost Governance, Nutanix Cloud Manager Security Central
 

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Sample Customers

St. Lukes Health System, the City of Seattle, Yahoo! Japan, Sligro, Empire Life, Hyundai AUS, and many others.
JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco
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