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IT Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
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We increased performance on our software platforms and databases drastically

What is our primary use case?

System stability and performance to ensure a 24/7 operation with fantastic pro-active support. The 1 to many solution will fulfil your DR requirements.

How has it helped my organization?

We increased stability and availability to 99.999%, and increased performance on our software platforms and databases drastically.

What is most valuable?

  • Availability
  • Scalability
  • Performance
  • Redundancy
  • Excellent Monitoring and Admin Portal

What needs improvement?

There is a hard coded IP in the 192.168.5.x range which comes with Nutanix. This needs to be a variable, not hard coded, as this may clash with customers current IP range.

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For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

A nine out of 10.

Technical Support:

A 10 out of 10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Xen.

How was the initial setup?

It was complex, as we needed to move from a Xen environment to Acropolis. The migration process was not easy.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented through an in-house team and a vendor team. The vendor's expertise was a two out of 10.

What was our ROI?

This is still to be determined.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Even though Nutanix is expensive, it is well worth it!

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes, we did look at your traditional hyper-converged solutions.

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IT Systems Technical Specialist at a government
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We have been impressed with their level of service during any case we have had to open

What is most valuable?

  • Storage snapshots and replication
  • One-Click upgrades

How has it helped my organization?

I can now do upgrades during work hours with One-Click upgrades. I click an upgrade and walk away. I have never had an issue.

What needs improvement?

Lowering the replication window.

For how long have I used the solution?

Two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Deployment was less than half a day for eight nodes.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes, there was a bug with the new Intel chipset, but working with support, they quickly were able to issue an updated BIOS. Even with this issue, we had no downtime

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

None, scaling up is easy with Nutanix.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

10 out of 10. We have been impressed with their level of service during any case we have had to open.

Technical Support:

10 out of 10. We have been impressed with their level of service during any case we have had to open.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have used UCS with NetApp in the past. Nutanix makes keeping things up-to-date much easier.

How was the initial setup?

It is very straightforward, two clusters in four hours.

What about the implementation team?

We used a vendor team. Even though it was their first deployment in production at the time, they were on point!

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing is above average, but it is worth it.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

IBM, UCS, and NetApp.

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System Administrator for virtual platforms at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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We can deploy VM as a service and perform updates on the nodes without downtime.

What is most valuable?

The consolidated storage: no need to use central storage that has a performance penalty. For example, while using central storage that enables file-sharing NAS services & SAN services, when one VM had an IO overload, all the VMs in the same data store in the VMware environment on the same LUN suffered from I/O latency. Now, in the new consolidated storage, this does not happen.

How has it helped my organization?

We can deploy VM as a service & we can perform updates on the nodes without downtime in a very simple, direct way.

What needs improvement?

The improvement needed is for elastic clusters, meaning the ability to depart and join nodes in an automatic way. We have a laboratory that needs to perform bare metal tests and therefore needs to unjoin the nodes from the cluster and later on join them back.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used it for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not encountered any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have not encountered any scalability issues, but we are about to add another node to the cluster and it should be a very simple task .

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is very good, and good with responsive time.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using central storage and suffered from bad performance latency.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup was straightforward.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

At the time we checked, this solution was unique.

What other advice do I have?

Perform resizing. Check the needs and deploy only what is needed. Check the memory DIMMs and make sure for the price you get, you have free DIMMs.

We Added a dedicated switch for this cluster so that all layer 2 networking will be in this switch and separate from the main routers.

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Enterprise Solutions Executive (AWS Certified Solutions Architect) at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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Simple to manage, excellent support, and highly reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
  • "There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."

What is our primary use case?

We are a cloud provider and we are giving cloud services via Nutanix Acropolis AOS, such as core virtual services. This is why we implemented Nutanix Acropolis AOS into our data center.

How has it helped my organization?

Nutanix Acropolis AOS has improved our organization because of the ease of management. We don't have to deal with any other solutions besides Nutanix Acropolis AOS. If it was a three-tiered architecture, we would have to struggle with the HBA cards from the upgrade, storage area, networks, switches, and other hardware. We only need to deal with the physical servers and the Nutanix on top of it. This is why it's very easy to manage, and that is saving us a lot of time for our technical operations.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations.

What needs improvement?

There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS.

Nutanix could integrate all of its solutions into one package to allow one implementation, such as Nutanix Acropolis AOS and the other related ecosystem solutions. You should be able to integrate them all in one step. The current method is to first install Nutanix Acropolis AOS then you need to install Prism, Era, and Flow. I would like to see a setup that implements all of those Nutanix tools at once.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Nutanix Acropolis AOS for approximately three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is very high. We have only had one or two problems in our cluster over the past two years. The problems that we did have were solved very quickly by Nutanix and by our technical service engineers together. I would say that it's robust and problem-free.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

In our cluster, we have more than 50 servers and as the cluster gets larger, there are some stability issues sometimes, but they are not critical. They can improve on the scalability because when one or two servers are down in our cluster, Nutanix Acropolis AOS struggles to balance the load to the other server clusters and it can take some time. In the time it is attempting to balance the clusters some of our customers are affected by the delay problem. It is not critical, but it could be made better to avoid this in the future.

We have approximately 16 people that are using this solution in my company on a daily basis.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is very good, they solved some problems we had and they worked with our team well.

The team from Nutanix focuses on the problem and they don't let us go before the problem has been solved. They are very interested in problematic cases and their resolutions.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have used VMware and Hyper-V. We have different customers using these other solutions.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is straightforward. The whole process took no more than one day.

We have added a couple of servers each month onto our platform and it's very straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We have a department in my company that handles the implementation and maintenance of Nutanix Acropolis AOS. We have 15 technicians but we only have two that handle this solution.

What was our ROI?

We have seen a return on investment because it's a robust platform. We do not have to deal with Nutanix Acropolis AOS related problems every day or from time to time. It gives a return on investment within a year or two.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

When we purchase a new physical server or a couple of physical servers into our cluster, we always purchase it with Nutanix licensing. We are receiving the license from Nutanix directly and not from the vendor. In the way we're dealing, with the licenses it is a bit costly for us but as the company is getting larger, day by day or year by year, those licensing costs become lower each time for us. We are purchasing the licenses for three years for some of our clusters and for some others for five-year licenses and the licenses are still costly. We have good discounts for the licenses, but it is still expensive.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to those wanting to implement Nutanix Acropolis AOS is to know the solution well before they do the implementation. They will have to receive some training about Nutanix Acropolis AOS. It's not easy to implement, but once you get used to it, it is very easy to do the implementation in the later phases. I would recommend people to get the training it is important.

I rate Nutanix Acropolis AOS an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Project Manager Estonian Government Cloud at State Infocommunication Foundation (RIKS)
Real User
High performance, knowledgeable support, and well integrated
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
  • "The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."

What is our primary use case?

The Cloud version of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is not available in Estonia. We used it for a simple bookkeeping system.

How has it helped my organization?

Nutanix Acropolis AOS has improved my organization because it has a fast delivery speed.

What is most valuable?

The solution is well integrated with other vendors.

What needs improvement?

The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Nutanix Acropolis AOS for approximately six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. On the customer's side, it was perfect, it was running very smooth without any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is being used in a large company and there are approximately 1,000 users using this solution.

How are customer service and support?

I have had some interactions with the technical support from India remotely, and they were quite good and understood what they are doing. It is online support and it was good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have used other hyper-converged systems previously but there were some technical issues and the vendor did not take care of the solution well.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was not complex. We built it for a five-year period and we will need to replace it with something similar when it is ten years old. It takes approximately one day to implement the solution and then you can use it.

What about the implementation team?

We have one person from the seller side and a second person from the customer side for the deployment and maintenance of the solution. It's covered by Nutanix support too.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of the solution is expensive. However, the price to performance is good. The cost for development and installation is very low.

What other advice do I have?

It is very good to have an on-premise cloud system, it works well.

I rate Nutanix Acropolis AOS a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Owner at a computer software company with self employed
Real User
Low maintenance, easy to scale, and takes only hours for compute analysis
Pros and Cons
  • "Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
  • "The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."

What is our primary use case?

We are hosting many companies' IT. We provide IT services for our customers.

In terms of its version, I am not a system owner, so I don't know, but I guess we are regularly updating to the latest version.

What is most valuable?

Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks. 

Compute analysis is really easy. It takes hours instead of days.

What needs improvement?

The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it.

We would also like more tiering of the storage if that's possible.

For how long have I used the solution?

The company has been using it for about two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Its stability and performance depend on what kind of hardware you put in the nodes. Its performance is average. It doesn't have high performance on the storage side, but it is good enough for mainstream users.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is really scalable. It is too easy to scale. We have around three people who use it right now.

How are customer service and support?

We didn't have any issues that we had to escalate to their technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We are using Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct. I don't know if it can be called hyper-converged, but it is almost hyper-converged. VMware with vSAN is also hyper-converged, but we're using it without the NSX module, so it is not a software-defined network. It is semi hyper-converged for me. As compared to these two, Nutanix is easier to use and easier to manage. It is more complex to get VMware and Hyper-V up and running than Nutanix.

How was the initial setup?

It was really straightforward. We were up and running in hours. It was really easy.

What about the implementation team?

Its deployment was handled internally.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Its licensing model is easy, but the bad thing is that we need to pay for the whole capacity at once. With VMware vSAN, we only have to pay for the capacity that we are using, which is not the case with Nutanix. So, we have more overhead for the licensing cost with Nutanix.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise talking to Nutanix to get the right hardware from the start and only buying certified hardware. You can use the Nutanix capacity planning information that exists to get the right sizing.

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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System Adminstrator at Twin Disc Inc
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It removes wait times in getting tasks done
Pros and Cons
  • "Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."

    What is our primary use case?

    We run our primary data center on Nutanix. We run an on-prem Exchange environment along with multiple application servers. We have about 200 VMs and about 20TB of raw storage on the appliance.

    How has it helped my organization?

    Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks. We were able to replace two SANs and two blade centers with a single 2U Nutanix appliance.

    What is most valuable?

    Simplified storage management. Therefore, we do not have to rely on others to manage storage, which removes wait times in getting tasks done.

    What needs improvement?

    Extra features should not be so expensive. We would love to be able to use or even just try some of the extra features without having to buy them. Buying those features is just as expensive as buying vSphere licenses, so the cost savings is nullified.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    One to three years.
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    Development Engineer at a university
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    It's hyper-converged. Storage, compute, and network are all in a single dashboard.

    What is most valuable?

    • Overall performance of the platform
    • Scalability
    • Ease of implementation
    • Management GUI Prism

    On storage side, these features are very useful:

    • Deduplication
    • Compression
    • Erasure coding
    • Snapshots
    • Asynchronous replication.

    The One-Click upgrades are awesome and work well.

    The standardized system check using NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) performs over 150 checks to determine potential issues.

    AFS and ABS are just great!!

    How has it helped my organization?

    Green datacenter: Significant reduction in time provisioning as well as daily administration and management activities.

    Hyper-converged: Storage, compute, and network are all in a single dashboard.

    What needs improvement?

    • More 10GB physical ports
    • CVM resource requirement/consumption

    For how long have I used the solution?

    Four years.

    What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

    Nutanix Professional Services personnel are awesome. They make deployment seem so easy.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    Not yet.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    Scalability is very flexible as far as a compute or storage need is concerned.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    Customer Service:

    Customer service personnel are very knowledgeable and work real hard to determine the root cause and provide a permanent solution, not a band aid approach.

    Technical Support:

    A nine out of a possible 10.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    I switched from my previous solution to Nutanix, because this is my first hyper-converged solution.

    How was the initial setup?

    Very straightforward.

    What about the implementation team?

    We implemented through Nutanix Professional Services.

    What was our ROI?

    ROI was seen as soon as we went live with the system. it has lower hardware maintenance costs and less power consumption,

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    Pricing and licensing are definitely not cheap, but not bad either.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    SimpliVity and FlashStack.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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