Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) pros and cons

Vendor: Nutanix

4.4 out of 5

18 reviews
94% willing to recommend

205 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) offer full features of Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud, providing scalability and resiliency for business-critical workloads. Highlights include micro-segmentation, cluster scaling automation, and robust data protection capabilities. Faster disaster recovery ensures business continuity. Adoption issues arise due to low customer awareness, pricing, technical support, and documentation needing improvement. Challenges have been faced with NC2 implementation.

Buyer's Guide

Get pricing advice, tips, use cases and valuable features from real users of this product.

Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Full features of Nutanix on-premises applications are available in the cloud.

Scalability aspects are strong, supporting business-critical workloads effectively.

Disaster recovery capabilities are significantly enhanced, providing recovery in a matter of hours.

Redundancy at all levels ensures high resilience and uptime.

Quick configuration and installation streamline operations.

CONS

Customers don't know enough about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), leading to low adoption rates.

Pricing can be better.

Technical support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved.

Documentation around Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved.

Customers often need to open support tickets about bugs when upgrading, such as issues with static IPs switching to DHCP in Azure.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Pros review quotes

MZ

ITOps at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

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.

Read full review

NM

Senior Digital Infrastructure Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees

May 24, 2023

In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution.

Read full review

LB

owner at Xinaptics

May 21, 2024

We can do anything throughout the infrastructure from one console. This is the best for us.

Read full review

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Free Report: Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Reviews and More

Learn what your peers think about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: November 2024.

815,854 professionals have used our research since 2012.

reviewer2183865

Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2023

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.

Read full review

GO

George Oliveira

Infrastructure Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

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

Read full review

reviewer2183748

Director of Infrastructure at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

May 13, 2023

I've been very pleased with their support overall.

Read full review

RA

Rachid Abdelkhalak

Data Center Manager at MTDS

May 22, 2024

There is ease of use. It is very important for our customers to have one centralized management console. Scalability is also very important for our customers.

Read full review

JH

Juan Gabriel Hernandez Arreg

Gerente De Infraestructura En T. I. at Alcione

May 23, 2024

Its performance and speed are valuable. Its performance has helped me reduce costs.

Read full review

Benjamin Bodenehim

Chief Technology Officer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 14, 2021

The scalability is good.

Read full review

SA

reviewer2403291

Vice president of operations at Digital.ai

May 21, 2024

The most valuable feature of the solution is the redundancy on all levels.

Read full review

Show 8 more reviews (out of 18)

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Cons review quotes

MZ

ITOps at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

Our biggest complaint is that we constantly need to open support tickets about bugs when we upgrade to the latest version. For example, our static IPs failover into Azure but switch to DHCP.

Read full review

NM

Senior Digital Infrastructure Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees

May 24, 2023

Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the documentation around the solution.

Read full review

LB

owner at Xinaptics

May 21, 2024

I don't have the expertise to build a hybrid cloud. We are starting to build one and haven't tried that part yet. I want to try because that is the most critical part for us. I want to see what, if anything, could be improved. The product is fantastic locally. Now, I want to try it in the cloud. My problem is not in the infrastructure; it is in the application, a different thing.

Read full review

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Free Report: Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Reviews and More

Learn what your peers think about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: November 2024.

815,854 professionals have used our research since 2012.

reviewer2183865

Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2023

We've had some challenges with the implementation.

Read full review

GO

George Oliveira

Infrastructure Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

In the current version, we've noticed many false positives when we check the alerts in the morning. For example, it told us that services stopped working, but there was nothing wrong when we checked it out. We've already raised the issue with support. They told us it's a bug in the version we use. We're about to upgrade to the recommended version, so it should be fine.

Read full review

reviewer2183748

Director of Infrastructure at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

May 13, 2023

I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes.

Read full review

RA

Rachid Abdelkhalak

Data Center Manager at MTDS

May 22, 2024

The interface organization can be better. If we can, for example, organize virtual machines by groups, folders, and sub-folders, it will be easier to administer and monitor.

Read full review

JH

Juan Gabriel Hernandez Arreg

Gerente De Infraestructura En T. I. at Alcione

May 23, 2024

It should not be so expensive. Its price is high, but at the same time, it does give the results it offers.

Read full review

Benjamin Bodenehim

Chief Technology Officer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 14, 2021

The pricing can be better.

Read full review

SA

reviewer2403291

Vice president of operations at Digital.ai

May 21, 2024

The most significant improvement would be to streamline the starting point so that we could kick off the deployment with one node and then scan out that deployment without a need to restructure or reformat anything.

Read full review

Show 8 more reviews (out of 18)

Product Categories

Product Categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

Cloud Management

Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

Popular Comparisons

Popular Comparisons

Microsoft Azure vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Amazon AWS vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Azure Stack vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Azure NetApp Files vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

VMware Cloud Director vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Morpheus vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

VMware Cloud Foundation vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

AWS Outposts vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

DigitalOcean vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Equinix Metal vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Google Anthos vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

VMware Cloud on AWS vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

High Performance Computing (HPC) vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

See all alternatives

Product Categories

Product Categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

Cloud Management

Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

Popular Comparisons

Popular Comparisons

Microsoft Azure vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Amazon AWS vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Azure Stack vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Azure NetApp Files vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

VMware Cloud Director vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Morpheus vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

VMware Cloud Foundation vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

AWS Outposts vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

DigitalOcean vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Equinix Metal vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Google Anthos vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

VMware Cloud on AWS vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

High Performance Computing (HPC) vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

See all alternatives

Related questions

59

Which Commercial and Open Source Software Do You Recommend for Private Clouds?

47

When evaluating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

44

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for IaaS maintains Amazon Web Service at the top of the Leaders quadrant. Do you agree?

73

Pros/cons of Rackspace vs. other leading vendors?

131

Which virtualization platform would you recommend to a healthcare company with 1000-5000 employees?

13

Are there any reasons to opt for Rackspace vs. its cloud competitors?

22

IaaS Solutions: Which did you choose, and What problem(s) has the solution solved for you?

131

What is the difference between IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS?

42

Which cloud IaaS/PaaS platform would you recommend learning to a newbie?

5

Rackspace, Dimension Data, and others that were in last year's Challenger quadrant became Niche Players: Agree/ Disagree