Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Reviews

We primarily use this solution to deploy to clients. We suggest the best solution for their requirements, which is often Nutanix, and we implement it for them. Each client has different requirements, so each user's primary use might be slightly different.

The solution brings a lot of convenience and ease of use for the customer. 

The product is easy to manage.

It has easy scalability, which is one of its great advantages. A customer will often look for this feature. 

The solution is highly compatible with other platforms.

I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides.

I'm not really using the solution. I am a reseller and I sell it to clients who are actually the end-users.

The solution is stable. There aren't bugs or glitches and it doesn't freeze or crash on us. It's reliable.

The scalability is very, very good. It's one of the selling points. If a company needs to scale the solution, they can do so easily.

The technical support is very good. We don't have any complaints about how they interact with us or our clients.

We have some integrators on our team. We implement the solution for our clients as resellers.

I'm not sure what the pricing on the solution is.

We're a Nutanix reseller.

We would recommend this solution to others. We tend to recommend it often to our clients. 

All of our customers rate this solution very high, so I would rate it overall at an eight out of ten.

• Prism 
• One-Click

Now, we can worry less about the technology and focus on other business value initiatives.

A fantastic product that could spend a bit more time in QA between releases.

Five years.

None.

Compatibility issue with Nutanix and Zerto.

None.

Customer Service:

10 out of 10.

Technical Support:

10 out of 10.

We switched from a legacy 3-2-1 solution to HCI due to its ease of use and scalability.

Very straightforward; no issues.

We implemented through a vendor team, although the setup was so easy that we could have handled the process in-house.

We have realized a 3:1 ROI.

The upfront cost can be higher than traditional solutions, but the ROI can be quickly realized for most organizations.

SimpliVity and Dell EqualLogic.

A great product from a great company with world class support.

It is now our single most powerful server that is easily scalable and has an HTML5 site that manages all aspects of the system.

Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements.

It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level.

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability except for cost and feature requests.

Local support has been wonderful so far in my case, but I didn't have many support requirements for my projects.

I was using a standard server infrastructure previously and found an offer for Nutanix so we switched.

The setup was handled by our local IT vendor hence you can say it's convenient.
However I was there to observe how it was done and I can say that you need network experience to link the hardware together as the nodes inside the hardware communicate using TCP/IP.

The software is set up on the get-go (off-the-shelf) but due to my project requirements I have to customize the software, hence the complexity.

If you're willing to spend on hyper-convergence technologies be prepared to pay more and be locked down to a specific hardware vendor.

The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.

Before the purchase we were evaluating VMware only.

Please be prepared to be locked down on the hardware.

Our 125 seat VDI implementation went from barely usable, to a good alternative, to desktops. The performance of our server apps has never been better.

One-click upgrade and data locality are valuable features. The one-click upgrade provides simple management and upgrades. Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency.

The focus on performance improvements over new features is more important to me. It is always fun to play with new buttons in the platform.

In reality, it is hard for me to find flaws in this platform because it is without comparing. For me, the fact that I run all of my workloads on Nutanix, which is a software defined datacenter platform, the biggest advantage for me is performance increases with updates. I was once asked what does "Software Defined" mean to me. My response was "a platform that allows for your next feature or performance upgrade to be as easy as a software patch or update."

To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most. I do understand that new features provide the wow in the platform and I completely understand this value. However, for a datacenter admin, performance increases without cost, and sometimes unexpectedly delivered, is real wow.

There have been no stability issues so far.

There were no issues with scalability. It's built for scale.

Nutanix support is second to none. There has never been an issue when interacting with them.

We previously used Vblock, a converged solution. We switched for many reasons. Footprint, power, cooling, savings, and support time.

I did the setup myself in less than 45 minutes from box to data.

You get what you pay for here.

We evaluated VMware VXRail/Rack and SimpliVity. We did PoCs. The hands-down winner was Nutanix!

Do a PoC and judge for yourself. It costs nothing but time.

• Distributed storage fabric

We don’t need to be SAN or virtualization experts J

• Manage virtualization layer with Hyper-V

I have used it for three years.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is 10/10.

We previously used DataCore, but scaling it is too difficult.

Initial setup was too simple. Our datacenter was on in two hours.

Pricing and licensing is so correct compared with other solutions.

I have not evaluate other options because for the past three years, Nutanix has been the leader in hyperconverged solutions.

Choose Nutanix for the simplicity and performance ahead of other products.

• Metro availability
• Fingerprinting
  

Metro availability with synchronous replication is most appreciable for my customer. Its benefit is high avaibility in production.

Maybe more functions for Prism with VMmware, for example, cloning VMs in Prism, exactly like Acropolis.

I've used them for almost three years.

One time, with IPMI not reachable for CVM. I troubleshot this problem with Nutanix US support.

It's at a high level.

No previous solution was used.

It is small but complex. Howerver, if you have a good skills with virtualization solutions, and Linux systems, you can install it without any problems.

I installed the solution alone. My advice is to read the Nutanix documents before your installation.

I have am immediately gain, as it has lower hardware maintenance costs, and lower electricity consumption.

I have evaluated SimpliVity OmniCube.

All the software-defined, hyper-converged, and cloud-based infrastructure provide our network with VMs and storage.

It centralizes management, so we can build clouds anywhere. Regardless of the hardware platform, it still works.

The processing power is OK, but for the future it needs to be better. Replacing all the hard drives with SSD would dramatically improve performance.

• Very good compression
• QoS is very good

It's highly scalable because it's all in the cloud.

We often use technical support, but usually we grab an account manager who sends an entire team.

It was very easy.

The solution you choose will depend on your budget. If you want to build a hybrid cloud, and have a good balance between cost and performance, then Nutanix is good option.