Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Reviews

Our main use cases for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are extensive as it is our virtual infrastructure housing our 12 core applications. We have 1300 apps, and 1200 servers, plus now our DR project, so I would say BCP, DR, and production. Everything runs in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).

We have used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for data center extension and scaling workloads on demand, from production to DR. We had questions, but our partners at Nutanix helped us answer those questions and ensured we understood what we were getting into and how it worked. The process itself just took time; it wasn't difficult, just time-consuming to make sure that we had everything organized and that the goal of getting there was right. Once we had that, it was simple.

We have used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to migrate enterprise applications. Once we understood the process, it was a simple live migration. The process itself is about understanding it, learning it, and knowing it's not just that you push the button and it goes; you've got to know what happens on the backend. Once you understand that, it's a seamless, easy process, so we moved several production applications, cluster to cluster, here to DR, branch to branch. It's a simple process.

What I admire most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is its scalability; that option that everybody seems to eventually go to is cloud, and we're ready for that when we decide.

This scalability feature has improved my company because we can grow at the speed of business, and that's very important. We're not limited by the hardware that we have. We allow ourselves room for growth, and we can literally grow from today to tomorrow to ensure that we're handling our growth. The scalability is critical for us, especially in the banking industry, where we just get bigger every year.

To make Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) the best cloud cluster solution in the market, they're already doing a lot with the security piece. We just sat in on a ransomware conference, getting up to speed on that. That's a scary thing because of the security of our data and the potential ransomware that could hit. 

My suggestion would be getting up to speed on ransomware and evolving, as attackers are always one step ahead of what's out there.

I have been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for three years, but we came over to AHV seven years ago. The NC2 in our cloud environment, for which we just purchased all the hardware, is about three years old.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is very reliable with 99.99% uptime. We don't have outages. Every now and then, we'll have a degraded node, but if we need to, we can live migrate to another node in the same cluster. Support is quick to help us fix it, so it's very reliable.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) scales very effectively with the growing needs of my company, and it does so very fast and quickly. I have expanded the usage since I took over three years ago, approximately five times.

My experience with technical support has been positive. They're good and help us whenever we need them.

Positive

We were on VMware. We came over to Nutanix because VMware's model was changing and getting more expensive. We understood what AHV was and what the transition was from ESXi to AHV. That was a choice we made, and we were willing to go through it. We're glad we did.

I did not deploy AHV, but I came on a few years after we did. I knew the engineers who deployed it, and they had a great time. They thought it was a great experience; they learned a lot, understood what the product was, and what it was going to do. They built out the environment with Nutanix, and CDW helped us. From what they told me, it was a fun and entertaining project. As engineers, we love doing that stuff, and they had a great time doing it.

We have a hybrid multi-cloud environment. We have a hybrid Azure AD, so eventually, I'm pretty sure that we will be taking advantage of some of the cloud solutions as well for Nutanix.

We're Agile. We can grow quickly. We can train, and we have good classes that we can take. We have good engineers who understand it, and they can scale out. It's very quick and very supportable.

I don't know if Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has helped reduce our total cost of ownership. For the hardware itself, it was really expensive; our last major purchase was over $5 million. But in time, it has proven beneficial because we no longer have to have hands-on management of a server environment; really, one engineer does it. The knowledge center that's out there has prepared him to be a really good engineer, and he knows exactly what he needs to do for that. So, it saved time, which saved money.

We have saved approximately 15% to 20% of time for what he does. Then, depending on the project, spinning up a new environment, getting everything connected, and scaling out if needed, that's a 10-minute process. So, I'd say about 20%.

My impression of Nutanix's license portability is that I wish it had an easier transition from one license to license. I know in the last three to four years, the model has changed three times, making it harder for me to understand the transition from one license model to the next and what that means for me. Once we understood what that meant, wanting to transfer all these licenses felt a little convoluted. Understanding what they're thinking and why they're going to the new model would probably help first, and then understanding the impact. In my world, impact means everything. So, for me, it was difficult to go through that transition, but now that I understand it a little better, I can look back and say if I knew this back then, maybe it would have been a little easier. It was cumbersome, but I understand why. Hopefully, we stick with this model for a while.

I just recently went through a licensing discussion and was able to see the cost of licensing and what we purchase licensing for. I have no problem with the hardware; the hardware pays for itself. The transition from the perpetual license to what they have now is, from a business perspective, understandable, but from an operational and cost perspective, for me, it is really expensive. However, our partners at Nutanix did work with us recently and reduced a huge licensing cost for us. They worked with us, and the relationship we have makes it easier for us to accept that this thing is expensive. If we look back at how it affects us monetarily day-to-day, because of the time-saving factor, it's fine. It's easy to accept, but that relationship was probably the key.

We didn't consider any other solutions besides VMware and Nutanix. We just went through a couple of demos.

I would rate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) a nine out of ten. It offers us the solution that we've been looking for, and we never worry about getting bigger because we are ready to support whatever application is needed. 

It's not just from an infrastructure point of view, but from a Nutanix support point of view. We can design a solution or consider a load balancer that may live in the cloud and connect here or to my Philippine call center. We can support that. We're ready for whatever is coming, and we have a lot of stuff coming.

I use the workload migration feature between clouds, such as migrating from VMware to Nutanix. I use Nutanix Move to migrate workloads from Nutanix Move. However, in some cases with our failover clusters, SQL failover clusters, and Active Directory farm, Nutanix Move did not support moving or migrating these workloads. I performed some tweaks on the virtual machine level and migrated everything into Nutanix.

We used an on-prem cluster and an NC2 cluster to replicate all the workloads into Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). This hybrid solution is very good, and I believe near-sync is also available now. Replication is a fabulous feature.

From a resource management perspective, we did not use it in that way because we use it as a disaster recovery solution. From a disaster recovery perspective for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), we run separate workloads in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) because it is nearer to AWS and other workloads. We did not use it for resource handling instead.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is very good, particularly Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), as it is a very good option because if you need more resources, we can add them instantly. This flexibility is valuable.

Scale-out is the flexible option. If we need to scale out, it is very easy to scale out from the cloud cluster level because with on-prem, we have to add the hardware. In the cloud clusters, we can instantly request a host-level host to add to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), and it will automatically expand.

From an improvement perspective, I cannot see anything at this point because I used those Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) at that moment, but I am currently not using it.

The pricing could be lower.

I have been working overall with Nutanix for around five years.

The capabilities are most likely the same as on-prem. Some capabilities are there because of the cloud. We use the AWS Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) cluster and Azure Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) cluster. We have not faced much failure, but Nutanix support is very good, so for any failures, they support from their back end.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has self-healing capabilities, and for the VMware object, the self-healing feature is on-prem. I use that feature. We use the self-healing capabilities for failures on cloud clusters.

Since it is a cloud workload, rapid deployment is also possible.

Scale-out is the flexible option. If we need to scale out, it is very easy to scale out from the cloud cluster level because with on-prem, we have to add the hardware. In the cloud clusters, we can instantly request a host-level host to add to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), and it will automatically expand.

Technical support is very good from Nutanix. We rate it at a nine.

Positive

The only advantage their competitors have is the lower price.

I also provide Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure besides their on-prem version.

All the upgrades and everything are done from the back end, so we do not need to touch anything.

I did not use the intelligent efficiency much.

For the API things, we use some Ansible code to keep the configuration aligned with every host, but we did not use much. During the implementation, I also moved on when I worked with Pearson. In the current environment at Citrium, we are not using APIs.

When I was at Pearson, I heard that Pearson was using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). I heard something because Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is a very costly solution compared to on-prem. Customers are not moving to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) because of the price, the license cost, and everything. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is not at an affordable level.

It is much more convenient than on-prem. I would rate this solution a seven.

My main use cases for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) was to migrate to Azure. We already have an Azure presence; so we wanted to be in the Cloud.

Nutanix benefits my company as it reduces administration work, allowing me to spend more time away from hardware issues. Additionally, with one single prism, I can manage both just by selecting the prism provider, whether it is Nutanix or Microsoft.

The features I appreciate most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are that we don't need to manage the hardware to start up with, and it is being managed by Microsoft currently, so that is hands-off. 

On our other solution, we have to take ownership of some hard drive failures and need to open up a case with Dell since we have Dell hardware. With Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), I don't need to; it's been fully supported by Microsoft, and it's just a support ticket for them to take care of the failover and all those things. 

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are managed by Microsoft. The hardware and the VMs are no longer constrained or bullying VMs since we are especially focused on the two days and over the workload. 

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) have helped migrate our apps and data to the public Cloud; however, we haven't migrated databases yet. The first step is apps to migrate, and that is working seamlessly fine because the application team doesn't know whether it's hosted on-prem or in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) in Azure. I have been able to migrate enterprise applications with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). The time it took to migrate versus having to do application refactoring is easier because it is a lift and shift.

My impression of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) availability in AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplaces is that AWS is good and long overdue. The only drawback is that there aren't many hardware selections, as they have only a very limited selection compared to AWS.

The license portability of Nutanix is very good; if you purchase a license, it doesn't matter whether you are going to use it in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), on-prem, or anything else. Not many hypervisors provide this currently, making it a really strong selling point for Nutanix.

Improvement is obviously needed in pricing; I cannot pinpoint where else I would suggest improvements. The one thing that stands out is the costing, especially if you check the NCM module, where you see the cost of the VM, which is defined by the customer rather than how the calculations work if that VM is a reserved instance. Maybe I need to talk with some Nutanix representatives to understand how the pricing cost of everything can be clearer.

I have been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for six months.

I have found Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to be stable and reliable; additionally, customer service and technical support have been really great. We have been a Nutanix customer for the past six years and are located in Durham, which is close to where Nutanix's customer support is situated, so I don't think there are any issues.

Regarding scalability, we haven't scaled much since we are quite limited right now. However, once everything is signed off, we plan to scale more; our plan is to close down the on-prem Nutanix clusters and have only the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) since we have an Azure presence.

We have a great relationship with Nutanix and always receive a lot of support.

Positive

Before Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), we did not utilize anything; we were using Cloud native directly from Azure itself.

Overall, the deployment of the solution has been straightforward, but it involves multiple teams as networking and security have to be engaged along with the virtualization team. The virtualization team is the last piece; once the security and networking teams complete their parts, it is just a click next, next, next situation.

My biggest return on investments when using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) includes less administrative burdens, as management is easier; I cannot directly quantify how much value I gain from that return on investment. Moreover, I do not need to go and release POs to purchase hardware gear for myself; I only need to say I need three more nodes from Microsoft, and it gets done.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) have helped reduce total cost of ownership. The approximate reduction is hard to compare since this is with Microsoft, which charges based on the hardware selected. In comparison, five years ago, we purchased 30 nodes on-prem, and now we are only using six nodes in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).

I did not really consider other solutions before choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) because we already have Nutanix. We just don't want to shift platform assets and have waited long enough to be presented in Azure, as they initially went with AWS. Now that they are in Azure, I think it is pretty good.

I have not really used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for data center extensions or scaling workloads on demand. We are planning to work with Nutanix and Microsoft to have our disaster recovery in South Central, which is our disaster recovery center in the US, since they don't have a presence there yet. 

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) a ten.

Right now, our main use case for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is that we're working on migrating all of the VMware nodes over, and we have some instances where we're using Prism to use visualization in our environment.

Right now, we are consolidating and trying to get away from, for example, VMware. We're working to streamline and reduce costs. 

The feature I find most valuable about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the portability.

The portability is beneficial because of the ease, one platform, and the ability to move between different clouds, edges, and data centers.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has benefited our company by consolidating and helping us to get away from VMware, AHV, and Nutanix NC2, as we're working on getting into a more streamlined platform and trying to reduce some of our costs.

Our impression of the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) availability in AWS and Microsoft Azure Marketplace is that we're not using Nutanix NC2 for those services, even though we're in those clouds.

My impressions of Nutanix's license portability for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are positive.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is a great product and it's a good option for companies that want to be both in the cloud and have a physical data center.

The efficiency of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is notable. While I don't have numbers to support this, the efficiency and ease of use are definitely evident amongst the teams using this solution.

We cannot use Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for data center extension or scaling workloads on demand right now based on the way that we have our network configured, but in the future, the plan is to build a greenfield site and re-engineer some of those features.

Some features that people say Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) lacks could be simplified to make it easier, such as a single pane of glass, and getting more into Google Cloud would be very helpful for our team as we're working on GCP interfaces.

Our company has been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for at least five years.

The stability and reliability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are great, though I don't have specific details to provide on that.

Our needs are fairly static, so I don't see many scalability use cases with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). I'm not saying that it won't help us scale in the future, however, for purposes of using Move to transfer instances from VMware to AHV, Nutanix's Move feature has been outstanding.

Cases are resolved fairly quickly for our team with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). The team we're working with is doing a great job, and customer service has been excellent. Working with the sales team on my side to get things set up has been outstanding.

Before choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), we looked at some VMware products and considered other options with native cloud on-prem as well.

Both the positive and negative aspects of the solutions we considered versus Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) show that NC2 is probably the most straightforward option we could see, based on the presentation and the feedback we've gotten from our partners and sales representatives from Nutanix.

While we did consider other solutions before migrating, this was our main choice.

The migration and move feature has made the initial implementation easy. We're on premises currently and plan to move to the cloud. 

The determination of whether Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has helped us reduce our total cost of ownership is yet to be made. I expect over time it will reduce our total costs.

There's more efficiency built in with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) in general, so I anticipate there will be some positive cost reductions.

My engineer, who has been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) systems, has seen approximately 25% more effectiveness in his job.

I find the pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) pretty straightforward. When working with my sales representatives, everything is included, they've been very helpful, and it's been within our price range for the most part.

We didn't really consider other options.

We'd be more interested in Google Cloud since we do leverage it, and some of the announcements today with Google GCP will be very beneficial for us.

It's a different model than what we've been used to with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) versus having a license based on a single use case, whether it's in our data center, in the cloud, or at the edge, and having that is very helpful for us because having a strictly hardware license is not very cost effective for us anymore.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) a ten.

We have been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters primarily for disaster recovery. We have a pilot light in AWS and we use that to burst if we have to. We are a Citrix shop with about 350 Citrix XenApp servers on-site and if there's a disaster, we could burst up what we have in the cloud. Nutanix makes it amazingly easy to increase the number of servers we have in the cloud, but when we're not using them, we could have it down to three nodes to do our storage tasks.

We have not actually used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for data center extension or scaling workloads on demand. However, we know it's there. I have increased the number of nodes we have and built new stuff up there and brought them up and down to see how easy it is, and it was amazingly easy.

We are mostly deployed on-premise and are just using the cloud for disaster recovery.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could help with migrating our apps and data into the public cloud. We haven't used it for that, but I could see how easy it would be to have it up there and building it. I could definitely see how it would work, but we're not doing that.

We have not yet used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to migrate enterprise applications. It's one of the things that I could definitely see being able to do, but we're not doing that. The reason stopping us from migrating enterprise applications is that we are iSeries, so a lot of our stuff is on-prem right now.

Nutanix NC2 has been a very reliable product.  It is almost a set it and forget it kind of appliance.  One of the key benefits I see is that we have people who have learned the Nutanix consoles, but they don't have full knowledge of managing AWS workloads.  NC2 gives them an easy interface to scale up and down workload in the cloud the same way they do on prem.  

The things I appreciate most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are the fact that it's the same on-prem and in the cloud. I'm not an AWS expert at all, yet I can totally manage my Nutanix clusters, the same as I do on-prem. The fact that I can quickly and easily stand up servers or nodes instantly has been an amazing help.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) definitely reduced our total cost of ownership. We reduced our cost of ownership in our disaster recovery and we only have to build a small environment that we know we can instantly scale out. It definitely saves us money in the long run of having something that we know is there and ready, but we don't have to pay for everything that we're doing in our production environment.

The disaster recovery aspect of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the part that's been saving money. We used to have a light-for-light kind of build-out in another data center in a different location. Now, we can pare that down to just a couple of nodes and know that we can burst it out when we need to.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved with some more tools that could help synchronize on-prem and cloud stuff better. The stuff they have is acceptable, it works, however, it could be easier and more efficient. 

Nutanix is always making improvements to their systems.  They have improved the updating functions but it can be a challenge to keep up with the versions and getting to the version you want that offers the new features you need. 

We have been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for about four years.

The stability and reliability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are commendable. It seems to be reliable for all we've been using it for; we have never had any issues. It's always up and running, and we do all of our backups to it right now. The fact that we can scale it has been great.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) scales amazingly with the growing needs of our company. It's so easy to build out, and we're charged by what we're using. To get the build going takes minutes, and it's just a couple clicks of a button, and it's building—just about an hour to complete the setup.

Nutanix's customer service and technical support are top-tier. They're always right on the call, and I've never had to wait that much for any support. The people I get are intelligent and know how to fix the issue the first time I call them, so it's been great.

Positive

Before choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), I considered several solutions over the years since I have been with SS Express for ten years. Initially, they were using Zen server with Citrix, then they moved everything to VMware, and now we've moved all of our Citrix to Nutanix. I've done all three of those, and Nutanix has been the easiest.

The differences I see between the three solutions are that VMware probably has more options and more matured products. There are many things that Nutanix necessarily doesn't have, or are not easy to find in Nutanix. Zen server is a free product. It does what it does, and that's about it.

Free products are also very limited in what they do. I had to check every morning to make sure things rebooted and functioned as intended.

My experience with the deployments of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has been amazingly easy. Nutanix was great at helping us out. We got on their tech support, and we had the entire NC2 up and running in three hours.

Nutanix was great at helping us out. We got on their tech support, and we had the entire NC2 up and running in three hours.

Regarding return on investment while using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), the efficiencies have definitely helped us. I'm not in the purchasing part as much, so I'm not totally sure on that answer.

I would say our total cost of ownership has been reduced by approximately 30% to 50%.

For us, the pricing and costs have been fair. We've been with Nutanix for maybe five years, and we started off with AHV, which was definitely a better play than VMware and other companies. Now, they're getting to be a little bit closer in pricing.

My impressions of Nutanix's license portability are that it's been great. We actually have VDI licensing, so we pretty much just have to pay for the hardware and for each user that we're using for our virtual environments. The fact that we can do those in the cloud, on-prem, anywhere has been a big help to us.

At the time of making the final decision for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), no other solutions were considered. AWS was all that was available, and since we were building specifically for DR for our Citrix environment, that was the solution we had.

My impression of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)'s availability in AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplaces is that so far it's been amazing. It's been really easy to do whatever we need to do, and we can scale it the way we need to scale it for us, so it's been really good for that.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has simplified our procurement process. That's a great thing, but we still have VMware stuff, and we have other things. I could see how it could help, but not really with us.

I rate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) an eight out of ten.

Our use case for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is pretty much just general compute on it, including some VDI, as well as general workloads and databases.

The feature I probably appreciate the most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is its scalability—how quickly I can deploy more nodes on a cluster and remove nodes. There are automation steps, and being able to do that quickly saves a lot of time.

The scalability and automation features of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) benefit my company primarily by saving a ton of time during deployment and decommission processes. It allows us to focus on other things, such as optimizing platforms. In that specific area, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) probably saves anywhere from 20 to 40 hours cumulatively for anyone who would have touched the deployment process.

We've been told some of these things are on the road map. I believe that networking is one of the biggest improvements. They have a great stock already, but some use cases, particularly around incrementally spinning up workloads, haven't been considered closely enough. As we're putting workloads on there by adding a few VMs at a time, there are networking aspects that need to be considered more closely. It's great once everything's there, but incrementally getting things there is what's difficult.

I've been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for about four months.

I've had good success with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) regarding reliability and stability, as our newer nodes have not had any issues. We did use an older node of AWS that had a couple of relatively minor issues, but overall, it's been very reliable. I'm satisfied that it's one of the things I don't have to worry about.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) scales really efficiently with my company's growing needs, as I've had to scale both down and up for different workloads. We did reach a cap in one availability zone on AWS due to running out of some hosts, but switching to a different AZ was not too difficult. During builds, it was very scalable, and adding or removing nodes was far quicker than if we were to do that on-prem in our own data center.

One of the best things about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the technical support. When we reach out to support, we usually get answers within an hour to a few hours, and their willingness to work with us on solutions is amazing. In critical situations, we know we can reach out to them as we have 24/7 support.

I talked with them about how they train their SREs, and one thing I like is that a lot of them have a very broad skill set. They're training them in large breadths of items, and proactively, they are assigning skills to their different SREs. Our first interaction is with someone who has the skill to resolve the ticket that we open. I know they do a lot with the support portal on being able to match that, and their Salesforce backend is doing a lot of that. It's clear they are getting support right in many aspects. That is one thing that has been outstanding about Nutanix.

Positive

We used a variety of solutions.

I liked the deployment process of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). It was a bit challenging on the cloud side because we have very strict security protocols in place. We had to do some legwork to fit the deployment process into our security protocol. One of my recommendations to them was that we need a step-by-step, tailored solution. What they have is probably great for small shops. They have a script to which you give unlimited permissions, and it just goes and does the work. That doesn't work for us. We're way too strict on security, so that part was the most challenging.

The deployment in terms of the Nutanix pieces was just phenomenal. We had things working better than our on-prem deployments in some cases. A lot of it was just very seamless. Once we got AWS set up, a lot of it was just very seamless and went probably faster than we expected.

We have both on-prem and a little bit in the cloud. We use multiple cloud providers. Our NC2 is on AWS.

The biggest return on investment when using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the lower administrative overhead, as I worry less about a disk going bad, causing an outage, because I know that self-healing takes place. This means we don't spend time reaching out to a hardware vendor for replacements, which reduces my escalations as an engineer, making it nicer since break-fix aspects are often handled for me.

Administrative overhead is reduced, especially when a disk goes bad, we're not the ones fixing that—it just fixes itself. However, the total cost of ownership with just running instances may be a little more expensive, but I don't know the numbers.

I'm not familiar with the contracts, but I thought the process was pretty seamless. Licensing for the Nutanix part was the same as licensing something on-prem, and since it runs on bare metal EC2, there was no new process we had to go through—it fits into our existing procurement processes nicely.

I appreciate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)'s license portability. We had some bugs along the way, but we sorted those out with support and engineering. It's been a very positive experience since I can license things quickly without feeling I'm trying to write a dissertation on licensing, which sometimes feels necessary elsewhere.

We evaluated other solutions.

I would rate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) an eight out of ten because of minor things that we ran into. I recognize that a lot of things are brand new. For it to be this good at such an early stage is amazing. It's very likely going to be smooth when the engineers have some time because I know they're crazy busy. It's already amazing. If they can smooth some of the rough edges, they are golden.

I primarily use Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for our virtual desktop, specifically Citrix Virtual Desktop for DR, and it provides the same experience as our on-prem Nutanix.

It allows us to use any cloud services, and since we are an Azure shop, it saves money since we don't have to have separate hardware and everything. It's leveraging Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) in Azure.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has definitely helped me migrate my apps and data to the public cloud as we are moving away from on-prem and going to the cloud. It has reduced our total cost of ownership, though I haven't analyzed it specifically. Rather than maintaining on-prem or a separate Nutanix cluster in a different data center, it saves on electricity since it's hosted in Azure.

My experience with Nutanix's license portability is straightforward. We were allocated 400 licenses for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), and after working with our account team, we ensured that we had adequate licenses for it, resulting in a painless process.

I currently have 15 clusters deployed on-prem with Nutanix. My impression of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) availability in AWS and Microsoft Azure Marketplace is that it gives customers flexibility, as certain options are Azure-specific while others are AWS-specific.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved as it currently looks and feels slightly different than on-prem. Engineering could aim for a look and feel closer to on-prem, making it easier for newer users.

I've been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for almost two years now.

The stability and reliability of the platform early on had issues, however, since upgrading a few months ago, I haven't seen many alerts, and I have an upcoming test with actual live users next month to evaluate it further.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) scales with the needs of my company. We recently expanded scalability, and by default, we run three nodes on Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), expanding it up to eight or ten, which took about 45 minutes to an hour.

Customer service and technical support are definitely shining stars for Nutanix. Anytime we have a problem, the support team quickly addresses it or escalates issues to engineering as necessary.

Positive

Our experience with considering changing to another solution involved trying out Microsoft Azure native VMs for DR, which worked okay but led to roadblocks that made Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) the more sensible choice.

The deployment process of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) was excellent. Nutanix walked us through everything.

We had a dedicated team that walked us through the whole process. Nutanix support is always willing to ensure we're up and running, answer questions, and take customer feedback for future releases.

My biggest return on investment comes from the fact that not enough companies invest in DR, focusing instead on production, despite the inevitability of disasters.

It's likely reduced our TCO, although I haven't analyzed it per se. For sure, energy is lower. It's also hosted in Azure, likely leading to cost savings. 

My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been that it was a good package for us, especially since we were existing on-prem Nutanix users, which made choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) as a DR solution obvious.

I haven't used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for data center extension or scaling workloads on demand yet, as it's primarily for disaster recovery, with a set amount of VMs ready for about 50 to 60 users during a DR test, and then we shut down the environment afterwards.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is definitely a must and useful, especially for companies with a DR specific use case. I use it primarily for virtual desktop, and it's simple to use, easy to set up, but the initial hurdle of setting it up was present, especially since we started during a pre-release phase.

Our main use cases for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are that we're currently using it on Azure and have it deployed in a non-production environment to set up a cluster for our Oracle billing system.

I have used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for data center extension or scaling workloads on demand.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has helped us stand up a few applications there; we haven't migrated our existing applications.

I have not used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to migrate enterprise applications.

The features of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) that I appreciate most are the scalability; being able to spin up or reduce the cluster size based on the needs that we have has been helpful for us.

The benefits of the features of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for our company are that we're able to utilize it to scale up when we need it, but we don't always have to have those resources deployed if we don't.

We've been able to scale on demand. Overall, it was a good experience. We needed an elastic capacity. We use NC2 as a switch while we're building out our own data center.

My impression of the availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) in AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplaces is that they have a very strong offering in AWS, although the feature set is not as robust in Azure, which is the cloud provider that we use.

Nutanix's license portability is a very valuable tool for us because we were building our own data center, so we've bought on-prem licenses and then utilize that for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). Once we have the hardware in place, we're going to migrate those workloads over to on-prem, so the flexibility of being able to utilize those licenses is very helpful.

The NC2 experience has been straightforward and easy.

Having compatible feature sets between Azure and AWS would go a long way to improving the overall NC2 experience.

The pricing was pretty on par with what we were told what the pricing would be out of the box. To make pricing a ten, having that same, similar feature set between AWS and Azure would help.

I have been using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for about a year.

The solution is very stable, very robust. 

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) scales with the growing needs of our company very well.

The customer service and technical support have been very helpful; they jump on calls with us and stay engaged until any issues are resolved.

They deserve a great rating.

Positive

Before using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), our parent company was using ESX or VMware. We're migrating our applications out of their environment, so we were looking for a different solution for ourselves.

The deployment was somewhat tricky and not straightforward out of the box. Nutanix did recommend professional services to be engaged. That said, we were able to self-deploy with just a few hiccups here or there.

The return on investment when using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is that we were able to deploy new technologies that the business required in a much shorter timeframe than if we had to wait to build out the original data center.

NC2 has not yet reduced TCO.

My experience with the pricing, the setup costs, and the licensing until now is that it was pretty on par with what we were quoted out of the box, as expected.

I did consider other solutions before choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). We looked at Nutanix on-prem and ESX, so we did some comparison before jumping into NC2.

I'm not so sure that Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) has helped me reduce my total cost of ownership.

Overall, my experience has been excellent.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) an eight out of ten.

It is for disaster recovery with Citrix VDI. We moved the workload from on-premises to the cloud, so all users can use VDI in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). It involves enterprise applications and workloads.

Since we use Nutanix extensively from servers and VDI, this is an extension from that ecosystem to the cloud. It is very beneficial for us.

The most valued feature of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is its scalability. Users can save cloud costs by spinning up VMs as needed. If there is a disaster, more machines can be spun up quickly. 

In the early stages, there were not many deployment guides available. Now that the product is more mature, there are probably more experience and deployment guides available.

The offering on GCP is a feature we have been waiting for to compare costs.

We started using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) last year, making it almost two years of usage.

The solution is pretty stable.

The solution scales effectively.

Nutanix has the best customer service. We have been using it since 2011.

Positive

Previously, we bought additional Nutanix servers in another data center as our DR strategy, however, that involved CAPEX and was not easily scalable. When you buy a server and put it in a data center, you are limited. If you expect the server for 100 VMs and need more, you must buy more servers, and the procurement process takes time. With Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), it is scalable and elastic.

We learned our lesson when we tried to deploy on a different Azure region. Our infrastructure was on Azure West US2, however, we tried to deploy Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure West US3. It was complex in terms of networking. Finally, we consolidated everything to ensure it was all in the same region. After consolidation, the networking complexity and latency improved significantly.

The estimated return on investment is 15% to 20%. It's reduced TCO. Our CAPEX is lower since the environment is elastic. We just spend more OPEX. We only turn it on or scale it when there's a DR test or a DR event.

The license is portable. No matter where the machine or server is located, we are able to license the compute and storage. It's flexible.

We've had no issues with pricing. 

We looked at Rackspace and compared it since our workload is mostly in Nutanix already. We tried to find another environment that integrates with Nutanix. We also considered native Azure, but when we did a POC to migrate our VDI Golden image to Azure, it proved to be a very complex and time-consuming process. That is why we did not proceed with native Azure. With Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), everything is integrated seamlessly.

We appreciate that regardless of machine or server location, they just license the compute core count and storage. 

Our CapEx is lower since this environment is elastic. We only turn it on or scale it during DR tests or actual disaster recovery. 

We are under Microsoft CSP.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a nine.

We purchased Nutanix as a replacement for our previous disaster recovery solution. We originally used Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, but we had many problems. One of our partners who helps us with our major solutions suggested we check out NC2.

We are leveraging NC2 for our products to ensure they work how we want them to. In the event of a true disaster, we can failover into any cloud solution or back down to on-prem. Some of our applications run better on-prem, and some aspects of our operation must be on-prem. 

Our previous solution was inconsistent and took a long time to recover. NC2 consistently delivers full disaster recovery in a few hours. That was a huge selling point. We need to know that our business can be up and running in hours, not days. We didn't have a real disaster recovery plan before NC2. That's a goal we've been trying to achieve, and Nutanix gives us what we need to make that a reality

Hopefully, we never need to use it, but it's good to know we have it. It's like an insurance policy. We've never used it in a real DR situation, but based on test cases, I estimate that we've saved around a week's worth of time compared to ASR. NC2 has the potential to replace some of the other solutions that we use today, but we don't know yet.

NC2's biggest advantages over Azure Site Recovery are its performance and ease of use. You quickly know if everything is working. We have used NC2 to migrate some enterprise applications, but nothing too big. 

We have used it for a few low-level apps. It's potentially a massive timesaver because we don't need to rebuild those applications. I couldn't say the exact amount of time saved but it's possibly 25 to 50 percent, depending on the scenario. In some cases, it might be up to 80 percent. It varies based on the infrastructure.

In the current version, we've noticed many false positives when we check the alerts in the morning. For example, it told us that services stopped working, but there was nothing wrong when we checked it out. We've already raised the issue with support. They told us it's a bug in the version we use. We're about to upgrade to the recommended version, so it should be fine. 

I started using Nutanix Cloud Clusters about five months ago.

NC2's stability could be better because we've faced a few bugs in the current version. It isn't the worst, but it could get better when we upgrade. It's not like we're seeing daily outages. The one outage we had wasn't NC2's fault. It was a problem with our Microsoft tenant

I rate Nutanix support eight out of 10. Their support team has been extremely responsive and helpful when we've had issues. In addition to their support, we've also worked closely with their support team on a project we're doing. They've been phenomenal in helping us get through it.

Positive

We previously used Azure Site Recovery. We could always get our data into Azure, but it didn't work as expected when we tried to replicate it back down during disaster recovery. 

ASR didn't work properly. It would replicate, but we couldn't use anything because all our disks would come back out of order. That was especially a problem with our Windows VMs. With Nutanix, that process has always been smooth. Recovery could take one or two days with ASR, but it can be completed in a few hours with NC2.

We believe we can save money in the long run. We're also saving time on the management aspect.

I wasn't involved in purchasing Nutanix, so I don't know the exact price. I've heard it's reasonable and comparable to our VMware licensing. It might be more expensive, but we get more bang for our buck. 

We considered a few others, but it made sense to use NC2 because we already leverage Nutanix products for other aspects of our business.

I rate Nutanix Cloud Clusters seven out of 10.