Nutanix Central Reviews

My main use cases with Nutanix Central are managing updates, including LCM updates. We also manage all of our clusters and servers with it. It tells us the hardware health, VM health, disk issues, and alerts. 

We are currently using Nutanix Central to manage our hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. We have Nutanix and AWS, and we are currently in the process of migrating everything to AWS. 

The tasks I primarily perform within Nutanix Central include many things, such as performing upgrades and life cycle management. Currently, our biggest task is migration, so we are constantly migrating using the Move tool and monitoring everything, including health and alerts.

Nutanix Central has helped our company with resource utilization by reducing our day-to-day admin tasks with the alert setup. It helps us get ahead of potential problems. 

Additionally, it helps us reduce costs by utilizing one service instead of multiple services for the same purpose.

We have seen a reduction in security incidents. We used to get a lot with VMware, but with Nutanix, we haven't seen any issues related to malware, etc.

It helps us to see everything. It also depends on how it's set up, but for us, it has been helpful in seeing the hardware and the health and monitoring all clusters efficiently.

We use Nutanix Central for privileged access. It is more for individuals who do not require the ability to connect via VPN and get in there quickly, such as administrators of the platform. We have it very locked down because it gives a lot of access to multiple sites and locations. We are using it primarily for the privileged access side.

We've multiple Prism Centrals and we're primarily in the on-premises side of the space. We will be expanding shortly to the public cloud.

Nutanix Central benefits our company by reducing confusion around managing different Prism Centrals, addresses, and IPs. Some people have difficulty remembering resolvable names. This helped us to send newer team members, particularly from our core infrastructure, to a single site to log in, view the infrastructure at a glance, and perform administrative tasks related to the core infrastructure.

We use Nutanix Central for new server builds. I do VM builds and general administrative tasks such as template deployments and management. We do leverage the capability of managing the IAM as well from Nutanix Central. It kind of helps us to keep things secure at the lower level for the folks that we require to log in over VPN directly to Prism Central. That's been very beneficial.

We are doing a data center migration and comparing current app workloads to what we had before. The ability to go between multiple sites from one location and look at those VMs very quickly helped us to do those comparisons on the go. We are able to run the reports and get that data much quicker than having multiple Prism Centrals and going to multiple different locations and trying to work to get that data aggregated. 

Having a single pane of visibility with Nutanix Central impacts my team's ability to efficiently search and access infrastructure entities. Whether we go directly through the dropdown to each Prism Central or utilize the search function, it has been very useful to get to different objects and entities at a much quicker pace.

We are managing two different clusters with it.

Currently, we are not using Nutanix Central to manage hybrid multi-cloud infrastructures. Our clusters are on-premises. We are looking at getting into the cloud space with AWS as our cloud provider. We are also considering shipping some data to storage platforms such as Wasabi.

The specific tasks we primarily perform within Nutanix Central relate to monitoring, upgrades, and policy management. The team members who work for me handle most of the upgrades from this central location.

We recently needed to assess our storage resources. It was easy to access Nutanix Central and find that information. We discovered two or three different VMs that were duplicated as a result of some restore processes. We were able to quickly clean it up and gain that space back.

We have realized time savings with Nutanix Central. It helps prevent resource depletion that could put us in a vulnerable position regarding HA. 

Having a single pane of visibility with Nutanix Central significantly impacts my team's ability to efficiently search and access infrastructure entities. They use it daily for a holistic view of the entire environment.

Right now, DR is my primary and only task.

One specific benefit I've realized is that it allows us to test effectively. The test feature will spin up the VMs to make sure that the infrastructure works without messing with production, as we have them in a segregated, isolated network. We don't have to worry about causing any issues, as long as the networking is correct, and this test function is going to be for the entire organization to ensure it works fine, which is really cool, and it cleans itself up when you tell it to.

We are yet to see improvements in our company's compliance posture or a reduction in security incidents. We are just building the testing schedule, and, hopefully, by October, we will exercise them.

Having a single pane of visibility within Nutanix Central impacts our team's ability to efficiently search and access infrastructure entities.

We have multiple Prism Centrals, so we wanted a centralized place to look. 

We have NUS and compute in different Prism Centrals. Originally, it was because we needed a Nutanix Prism Central for replication that we added two for NUS, and then we had a regular one from compute, and we wanted to keep them separate, but now, we have one in every data center, so it's gotten much larger. The fact that we have our products in multiple locations in Nutanix Central helps us because we're doing a project to migrate from ESX to AHV, so it's nice to see where it's at, whether it's ESX or AHV. We have also given some of our end-users access to Prism Central so they can power on or power off their lifecycle services, which gives them the ability to find where everything is and interact with it. 

We use lifecycle management in Nutanix Central to have an idea of where we're at, and we also use it on the portal as well. We also use it to gain more insight into our inventory because we have a lot of hosts in different areas, and we're able to see what's going on there.

The ability to look in one place in Nutanix Central is what I prefer the most. We can see storage but also capacity, and it gives my boss a place to look, so he doesn't ask me questions. Just knowing the lifecycle status online in Nutanix Central helps us with resource utilization, and we also monitor the capacity. We have one environment that is always right at the threshold of having too much, so it's nice for us to see it in an easy-to-read form. 

The primary benefits of using Nutanix Central are the ability for our users to have a better idea of where their servers are when they need to work on them, especially if they can't do it through Microsoft tools. It really allows us to see the high-level view of what we have, where it is, and if there are opportunities to find issues. The visibility we get from Nutanix Central—seeing it all in one spot—primarily gives us significant time savings.