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Nutanix Prism pros and cons

Vendor: Nutanix

4.4 out of 5

60 reviews
98% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Nutanix Prism boasts impressive dashboard customization, centralized management, and effective storage solutions, offering speed that surpasses VMware. It garners appreciation for efficient cloning and snapshot features. However, concerns exist over pricing, absence of a built-in backup tool, unsupported Linux distributions, and stability. The lifecycle management is complex and unpredictable, requiring users to seek more information. These limitations affect the overall user view and operational completeness.

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PROS

Nutanix Prism provides excellent technical support, described as helpful and responsive.

With Nutanix Prism, virtual desktop performance has significantly improved.

The dashboards are customizable to user requirements.

Users find the centralized management feature very effective for streamlining operations.

Nutanix Prism offers robust disaster recovery and high availability features, making it ideal for enterprise-level deployment needs.

CONS

Pricing is an area of concern where improvements are required.

There can be constraints on scaling, making granular scaling difficult.

Nutanix Prism lacks interoperability for multi-cloud or multi-site tasks.

Built-in backup tools are absent in Nutanix Prism, complicating data protection.

Detailed documentation for troubleshooting and support is insufficient.

Nutanix Prism Pros review quotes

JT

reviewer2059110

Senior Systems Engineer at ePlus inc.

Dec 21, 2022

The most valuable feature is that, when you log in, you have customized dashboards. You can add widgets to those dashboards and you can change the density of certain data points in the dashboards. When I log in, I quickly see where the cluster lies, as far as memory and CPU resources go.

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DP

Sr. Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health

Jul 21, 2023

Prism provides us with insights and the ability to access all the sub-components of Nutanix's hyperconverged platform.

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RS

reviewer2049372

IT Support Supervisor at a local government with 201-500 employees

Dec 9, 2022

The most valuable feature is the solution's single-pane-of-glass approach to consolidating all of the various metrics and interfaces that I would typically have to access via multiple screens in other products. The ease of use would probably be the single biggest selling point.

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YS

Data Center Admin at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 12, 2022

The recent life cycle management feature is really helpful to us. Before that, we had to do everything manually, but now it's like a one-stop shop. We can upgrade firmware and all of the software from there. Also, managing storage information and other hardware-related resources is easy using Prism.

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Olaf Van Heeswijk

Service Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 15, 2022

Because in my role I create a lot of reports, it is very handy to be able to show the customer, "This is your cluster. At the moment, you are using this much CPU, this much RAM, and this much storage." I can give them information on what they're using, how many VMs, and the amount of data they're using.

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KK

reviewer1855257

IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 13, 2022

You can go directly to the Prism dashboard and it gives you all the information. It's easy to use. I have worked on other platforms but the single pane of glass that Prism has is very helpful for seeing what's going on in your environment: usage, storage, capacity, and behavior.

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JS

Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 13, 2022

What I like the most are the self-healing and the ability to see everything at a glance, from metrics to the resiliency status of the hardware. As soon as you log in, that's what you see.

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TB

Senior Server Analyst at McGough Construction

Jun 12, 2024

We were impressed with Nutanix, overall. Some of the other main drivers for our switch to it were the simplicity of setting up our Nutanix clusters, ease of management, and that their support is very respected. There is an overall ease of use, compared to VMware. I'm sold on their product.

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DP

Sr Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health

Dec 6, 2022

I don't know how to explain how much time and effort switching to Nutanix HCI has saved us. It's 80 percent more time-efficient and convenient than having to use multiple interfaces to deal with storage and compute in our hypervisor.

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GK

Cloud Operations at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 14, 2023

Before implementing Prism, we had an issue with too many alerts for similar issues, so it was difficult to maintain them. The alerts kept coming, and we had a hard time keeping track of everything. We had multiple alerts about CPU, RAM, and storage. Prism helps us identify and eliminate false alerts because most of them were redundant.

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Nutanix Prism Cons review quotes

JT

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Senior Systems Engineer at ePlus inc.

Dec 21, 2022

With our previous storage solutions or hardware platforms, when there was a failing component, the replacement component was shipped out the next day. There was no user interaction needed for that process. With Nutanix, sometimes I have to open the ticket to begin the hardware issue... The process itself is not extremely clear and I've been assured that that process will be improved in the very near future.

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DP

Sr. Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health

Jul 21, 2023

The licensing cost has room for improvement.

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RS

reviewer2049372

IT Support Supervisor at a local government with 201-500 employees

Dec 9, 2022

The simplicity that Prism provides is something of a dual-edged sword. It can be almost too simple at times. When there is an issue and something is really wrong, it can make it a little more difficult to track it down because the Prism interface is very limited for drilling down into those highly technical or highly complicated errors.

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YS

Data Center Admin at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 12, 2022

When we get a request from a user for a file-level recovery, there are self-recovery options, but they only work if the replication is available to that cluster locally... In VMware, we could restore a VM and attach the hard drive to any other server and copy the file easily. But that kind of facility is not available in AHV.

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Olaf Van Heeswijk

Service Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 15, 2022

On the technical side, although you don't need a shutdown to upgrade Nutanix, for downgrading you do. If it were possible that when downgrading CPU or memory you didn't have to reboot the VM, that would be very helpful for us.

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KK

reviewer1855257

IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 13, 2022

There are a few areas related to visibility on the dashboard that can be improved. It's good, but the visibility can be improved in terms of single locations.

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JS

Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 13, 2022

We're running VMware's ESX hypervisor and a lot of networking isn't done in Prism, it's done at the vCenter level. But for the few proofs of concept that I've done, Prism hasn't been a good experience because there's a lot of command-line work that needs to be done to configure the network.

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TB

Senior Server Analyst at McGough Construction

Jun 12, 2024

The three clusters we have at our remote offices are just one-node clusters. If there were an easier way to upgrade items such as the BIOS, SATA drives, the BMC, et cetera, on those, that would be helpful.

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DP

Sr Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health

Dec 6, 2022

One thing I would like to see is one-click migration. I know that's on the roadmap, but we don't have it yet.

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GK

Cloud Operations at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 14, 2023

I would like more insights about virtual machines. It would be helpful to have more detailed information about resource allocation and usage, so we can distribute resources and reassign them more efficiently.

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