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ControlUp vs Nutanix Prism comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

ControlUp
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (6th)
Nutanix Prism
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
64
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Management Tools (5th), Data Center Infrastructure Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

ControlUp and Nutanix Prism aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ControlUp is designed for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and holds a mindshare of 10.2%, down 12.9% compared to last year.
Nutanix Prism, on the other hand, focuses on Virtualization Management Tools, holds 13.0% mindshare, down 14.1% since last year.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ControlUp10.2%
Nexthink22.8%
SysTrack13.0%
Other54.0%
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Virtualization Management Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Nutanix Prism13.0%
VMware Aria Operations30.7%
IBM Turbonomic13.0%
Other43.3%
Virtualization Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Richasvi Tripathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Used to monitor several devices, but most reports do not give information of all the devices
We have approximately 10 to 20 feature requests pending on the vendor side. Most reports give information about the top 100 devices, but not all of the devices. In our case, we are monitoring 200000 devices. So, we need details for all those devices, but that is limited to 100, which they have improved to an extent in some reports. I'm thinking of one feature request for ISPs because the dashboard does not provide a detailed list of ISPs, and it provides the wrong list. I feel some firewall issues are blocking that, and the team cannot send that detail. That may be the case. One feature request pending on the vendor side is the data format change. Once you see a detail in the report, it is mentioned in some other format, which is hard to analyze sometimes.
Khurram Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently manage virtual machines with robust disaster recovery
Nutanix Prism is mainly used for our daily operations, similar to VMware. Despite the lack of extraordinary features, it efficiently manages our daily operations now that we are managing our VMs. One of the most useful features is the disaster recovery setup, which includes two clusters, one for our production server and another for our recovery site.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features in ControlUp are endpoint monitoring and the many features that are available."
"ControlUp is beneficial as it provides a web interface through which you can access all your infrastructure—servers, devices, and VDI infrastructure—all on the same platform. It supports gathering all infrastructure components in a single, unified dashboard. This helps you identify performance issues or high resource utilization, allowing quick troubleshooting. I appreciate the solid interface that ControlUp offers."
"It has a great career time monitoring tool."
"ControlUp has some good functionalities, such as remotely pushing scripts in the device through the tool."
"ControlUp has an easy installation process."
"Integration with Netscaler and Scoutbees can provide a proper end-to-end analysis of the user's experience and give us a real ROI."
"The most valuable feature is the granularity of visibility into the resources that are in use by our applications."
"It shows you so many details of what's going on in that log-on that, if there's a problem, you can identify it in five minutes."
"Everything has been valuable, without a doubt the server is self-managed with Prism in an efficient way, it solves possible logical errors to maintain production without interruptions, it's great."
"Has a user-friendly UI with a centralized console."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation."
"Nutanix support is excellent, and their response time is extremely fast."
"Nutanix Prism is very simple to use compared to other products. I have tried a number of tools, including VMware ESXi. Nutanix Prism is much simpler to use and we feel data transfers in it are very fast."
 

Cons

"Most reports give information about the top 100 devices, but not all of the devices."
"ControlUp could improve the integration. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring has better integration."
"This solution be improved by including load throttling tools. For example, I can identify a service where we spend a lot of CPU but I cannot restrict the service from ControlUp. I have to use another tool like AppSense."
"Integration is always a problem, and we feel that we are doing our best and the service provider thinks they are doing their best. I guess if ControlUp's system could be more capable or if people could understand the integration part, that would be better."
"There is area for improvement, maybe in the reporting. It could use some work in reporting."
"Solve is a quick and intuitive tool for quickly mapping data together, however, once you have the view of the data that you like, it is difficult to share this with colleagues."
"There was some lag earlier, and reports pulled from the dashboard would sometimes be half an hour old. But now, the information provides real-time status, which is greatly appreciated. Overall, I've seen improvement in the product."
"Something I would love to see from a partner perspective would be maybe a way to do this in a surface hosting provider."
"I would like to have some cluster management tools included."
"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."
"We definitely have some issues with Nutanix Prism. Our main issue is that we cannot operate the database. It would seem that less configuration would be desirable, because between Nutanix and the Oracle database on Windows, there tends to be problems."
"The VM backup could be better, and its licensing could be better. We have had some licensing issues with Nutanix Files. The default license should be 1 TB or more. Currently, for Nutanix Files sharing, we can only use 500 Gigabytes."
"The dashboard visibility could be improved."
"The pricing could be improved."
"There can be some constraints on how it scales, making granular scaling difficult with the product."
"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Based on my experience, ControlUp is not that expensive."
"We are satisfied with the price compared to other solutions."
"Personally, I would say that the only thing I could compare it to is another monitoring tool that we use, Nagios."
"The pricing is reasonable, approximately $400 to $500 per core."
"I consider it a worthwhile investment."
"Sangfor is cheaper than Nutanix."
"The licensing aspect is painful. We are told, "This is when you have to renew. This is the serial number and the part number," et cetera. But it's difficult to know where something belongs unless you dive into the portal and search in multiple areas for a particular serial number."
"Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great."
"Prism is cheaper compared to competitors like Cisco HyperFlex or HP vSAN."
"...we use it for small and medium-sized businesses. For those companies, Nutanix is too expensive, it's for bigger businesses..."
"The license for Prism is costlier than other VMs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Healthcare Company
10%
Insurance Company
8%
Computer Software Company
26%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise28
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ControlUp Real-time?
Based on my experience, ControlUp is not that expensive. It is a cheap tool because it is deployed to many devices where I work.
What needs improvement with ControlUp Real-time?
There is area for improvement, maybe in the reporting. It could use some work in reporting.
What is your primary use case for ControlUp Real-time?
My use cases include everything, and I don't mean that facetiously. I mean everything. We manage the servers, manage user sessions, manage everything. We monitor monitoring and take actual actions,...
What do you like most about Nutanix Prism?
Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?
At first, the cost seemed heavy, but over time, its cost-effectiveness became evident.
What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?
I have not noticed any downsides or drawbacks in Nutanix Prism. However, if you want to manage multiple clusters, you need Prism Center. The Prism Element and Prism Center versions are available. P...
 

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Sample Customers

B/E Aerospace, North Carolina SECU, Vancouver Island Health Authority, University of Florida
JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen
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