What advice do you have for others considering Nutanix Database Service?

I rate Nutanix Era five out of ten. The core-based licensing model is restrictive, and I would recommend that consideration is given to use-case-based license models to improve adoption. I have recommended Nutanix Era to others after increasing awareness of its functional limitations and support challenges.

My customers don't use the solution's automation features. DB as a service solution is new to my customers, who don't know the solution. Our goal is to increase the knowledge of our customers. I would recommend the solution to other users because it's a new solution that has more functionalities. It's similar to a cloud solution but can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud according to the customer's needs. With this solution, the customer can recreate a cloud environment in their private cloud, and it's really interesting. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I recommend the solution to medium and large enterprises. It makes sense if a customer has multiple instances and has internal dev teams. It will not make any sense if it's just a production database. The product is suitable if an organization has a CI/CD pipeline to develop new functionality. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

I would rate the solution a ten out of ten.

There are quite a few competitive products out there that offer similar features. I could say that Nutanix performed very well when competing against these other products regarding feature sets; Nutanix came out on top. Nutanix Database Service requires significant hardware resources to perform. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Overall, I would rate Nutanix Database Service as an eight out of ten.

I rate Nutanix Database Service an eight out of ten.

I use the latest version of Nutanix Database Service. Nutanix Database Service requires minimal maintenance, and just one person is required to do it. We absolutely recommend users to use this solution. When you factor in all the different aspects of the product and compare it to other alternatives, Nutanix Database Service is the best solution. Overall, I rate Nutanix Database Service a nine out of ten.

Overall, I would rate this solution an eight, on a scale from one o 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

I would recommend this product for any medium to large enterprise. It's not that relevant for a small enterprise because of the cost. With the enhancements and the features that have been added in the new releases, it's getting much, much better.

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. I recommend this solution to others because it saves operation time and day-to-day tasks. This is a big deal because if you're managing a big infrastructure, the operation time is critical, and with the use of Nutanix Database Services, resources can be better utilized.

I would rate this solution six out of ten.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I would rate Nutanix Era eight out of 10. I would recommend it to anyone who is considering it. It has some very good features. It really works with multiple silos in terms of infrastructure, database updates, and migration. So many things are easy with Era. You really don't need to follow the cycle that DBAs usually follow. It's really fast also. It really speeds things up.

My advice would be to engage with the Nutanix Era team as soon as possible to plan the implementation and to learn what you need to know about it. Make sure you read the documentation and work with the team so that you're comfortable troubleshooting any problems. In addition to the product being good, the support for Era is excellent. Take advantage of that to make it easy on yourself. We don't use it for snapshots and to clone databases, but if we did I believe it would decrease the time it takes to do those things. In our organization, there are three people who use the solution on the Unix team, and there are three DBAs who are the primary users. Overall, I don't know anything else that does what it does and I would give it a 10 out of 10.

If you look at the monitoring for long-running queries, it has given us good visibility of where the problem areas lie within the big databases. This gave us a good indication/direction to fix indexes and look at performance bottlenecks. It is a great product. I would definitely give it a 10 out of 10. With the technology that it provides and the simplicity of the actual solution, there is no one who can compete with it.

During our PoC, we did the technical side of testing Nutanix, and we did some benchmarking on the performance, but we didn't really get into the performance optimization monitoring and tuning of the databases. Assessing and optimizing database performance is one of the reasons that we plan to do the pilot project. The delay was that we couldn't put our actual production systems online during the PoC because it's a bit difficult to intermix PoC with production. The plan is that when we go into the pilot, we will select better production databases that fit the different use cases, and then we will do the performance tuning and see how those tools help us. The one thing that I'm uncertain about that might be important would be the monitoring and performance tuning capabilities. Since we do have a lot of other tools and experience with that, we might find that Era doesn't quite cater the same way, or we might find it actually does better. I'm not sure at this point. The biggest lesson that we've learned is that being able to automate almost 90% of the provisioning process is something that we never thought would be possible, mainly because there are so many different nuanced things that you have to do when you provision the database server. We tried to do manual scripting with PowerShell, which didn't always go as planned. But with the provisioning scripting that Era gives us, we finally have an option for a tool that will automate a lot of the stuff that we do, which means that in turn, we can focus on the important things. The one piece of advice I would give for anybody who is considering this product is to look at your data storage profile, and see how many different database vendors and database engines you use. If it's anything more than one then definitely, go for Era. It makes life for managing these different types of database engines a lot simpler. Because I haven't been using Era for at least a year, I don't really know if there are any issues that we haven't seen that might pop up. So far, everything looks good, but over time, little niggles may appear. Considering this, I cannot say that it's a perfect solution at this point. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We're reseller partners, and we sell various solutions to our customers. We only set up the solution for our customers; it's our customers that choose the deployment model they want to work with. If others are considering implementing the solution, I'd advise that the first check the availability and compatibility of the product against their existing systems and infrastructure. I'd rate the solution quite high, at about nine out of ten.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Nutanix Era as a four or five. Because we have only been using the product for less than five months, we are still doing some evaluations and there is feedback pending from the customer experience. There is too much that we still need to discover. But the pricing and the stability are big problems. I will have to give this product a four.

This is a solution that I recommend. It has very good features for the database lifecycle, and I would definitely recommend that people try this. This is a good solution, but there is always room for enhancements such as compatibility with other databases. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.