Nutanix AHV Virtualization Reviews

We are working on on-premises cloud projects. For these projects, we needed to choose a virtualization option like VMware, Microsoft Hyper V, or Nutanix AHV. Nutanix AHV was chosen because it provides a cost-effective solution compared to other options without incurring license costs for the hypervisor. We are primarily using it for Singapore government projects, where reducing deployment costs is crucial.

Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is the one-click upgrade capability. It allows for seamless upgrades without any downtime for the workload, as all necessary processes are handled automatically in the background. This feature makes managing the virtual environment easy for the administrators. AHV provides cost savings by eliminating the need for license costs and simplifies maintenance activities, making it a very user-friendly solution.

I have used it to host a virtualized environment.

It quickly takes snapshots. Moreover, the technology behind the backups is very efficient, enabling a reliable virtual environment.

We are offering Nutanix AHV Virtualization to customers who are looking for an HCI solution on platforms that have a mixed kind of servers, such as Cisco, Dell, or HP.

AHV supports the data center consolidation efforts by allowing lots of customers who are using SQL and Oracle to effectively use the HCI solution without issues in their environment, as we have deployed the database services into the same environment.

AHV handles disaster recovery and business continuity by allowing us to put the node cluster at the DR site, making it easy to replicate the entire workload from DC to DR without any third-party replication software.

The most effective feature for managing the VMs using Nutanix AHV Virtualization is MT Cloud, which allows us to move the VM from on-premises workloads to cloud or from cloud to on-premises.

Nutanix AHV Virtualization provides measurable benefits in terms of time-saving and cost-saving because it is hardware-independent, allowing customers to choose from various hardware suppliers such as Cisco, HP, or Lenovo.

The scalability of Nutanix AHV Virtualization benefits the IT infrastructure for customers by eliminating daily activities, allowing us to deploy the cluster and forget about stability. If future stability is required, we simply add nodes without any hassle, making it a hassle-free environment.

My clients typically use Nutanix AHV Virtualization to modernize their existing data center. They were previously using Hyper-V as a hypervisor with their on-prem storage, and we have proposed a deployment plan for this change.

The best features of Nutanix AHV Virtualization are the consolidation of all things, the speed it provides, and the reliability it delivers, with the most beautiful part being its self-healing capability that does not require any additional diagnostics to be performed.

It is always a great deal to work with Nutanix AHV Virtualization because it saves a lot of time and reduces the need for human interventions. It has no dependency on the existing IT staff, and once deployed, it runs reliably without the need for attention.

We are a service provider managing 80+ customers, around one million virtual desktops.

Since we are part of the virtual desk practice, all our customers use AHV specifically for virtual desktops.

Regarding our clusters, we have deployed multiple AOS clusters with the virtualization hypervisor ASV on them, and we are running VMs on it. For the Veeam instances, we are backing up the VMs that are running on Nutanix infrastructure. For that, Veeam has a proxy called ASV proxy, especially for the Nutanix VMs. That's what you deploy on a cluster, and then you are able to take a backup of the VMs.

One of the most valuable aspects is that it is open source. Nutanix has a licensing cost, yet the hypervisor itself does not incur a cost. Additionally, on Nutanix, you have the capability to take snapshots, unlike on VMware. Also, there are the built-in Docker capabilities for replication between clusters, and you do not need different products to support functionalities such as snapshots on Nutanix.

We use the solution for cloud services and IT.

The solution's up time is always up. The solution is easy to troubleshoot and easy to operate. The most valuable feature of the solution is the built-in data protection, that helps with backup in a matter of minutes.