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We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. Nutanix Prism Report (Updated: July 2020).
769,236 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"It gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network.""Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features.""It is easy to implement.""We are able to go in and actually leverage the thick client for a nice easy drag and drop solution.""It's easy to push out across numerous servers. Very scalable.""Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service.""It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions""It is the foundation for our monitoring solution."

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"Has a user-friendly UI with a centralized console.""Prism is easy to scale.""Prism provides us with insights and the ability to access all the sub-components of Nutanix's hyperconverged platform.""The auto-update option is a valuable feature for us.""In the six years we have been using Nutanix Prism, we have never had a problem with stability.""Its scalability is valuable. It's scalable and fast.""The features that I have found most valuable are its storage flexibility, linear scalability, and perhaps ease of use and powerful support.""Nutanix is a HCA product and includes VMware called Nutanix Express that has been fantastic for us. We have about 100 plus VMs without any trouble and we have VCDR."

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Cons
"I'm very happy with DX Unified Infrastructure Management, but what could be improved is its user interface because currently, it has many wide spaces. All the information you need is in DX Unified Infrastructure Management, and it's a reliable tool, and though that's more important than the gaps in the user interface being smaller or wider, those gaps still need some improvement. I know the team is working on it. My company had some backend problems with DX Unified Infrastructure Management in the past that have now been solved. The setup for the tool also needs improvement because it's complex. Another room for improvement in DX Unified Infrastructure Management is its technical support because it's sometimes not as knowledgeable or responsive. What I'm suggesting to be added to the tool is an open-standard ELK Elastic-based database where you can put in all data, so that you can use the data in other systems as well.""In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues.""It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically.""The only challenge that I have with this solution is the reporting part. The users are not really comfortable with the kind of reports they are getting. Sometimes, they want to see reports in their own format. Customizing those reports with Jasper is not very easy. It could be because of the knowledge gap. If you have the knowledge of how Jasper can be configured to suit customer requirements in terms of reporting, it is good. There was a time a customer complained about one issue related to Netflow analysis. Broadcom has a separate model for that, but the customer wanted everything bundled together. It could also have IP management so that I am able to see or analyze IPs so that the IPs that are already in use don't get assigned.""There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure.""I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there.""The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes.""I would like to see auditability. We've built our own audit functionality to ensure that every CI has the desired model configuration applied to it. And we run that on a daily basis. If that became part of the product, I think it might be a little bit less intensive in terms of resource, because we're doing it with scripts."

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"The process of converting and importing virtual machines to the Nutanix environment is quite complicated.""Sometimes the life cycle management function of Nutanix can't find the latest version of the firmware. The lifecycle management product could be more up-to-date.""In the next release, I would like the ability to browse data stores.""The product currently fails to provide a complete view to customers.""It would be ideal if there was more of a community around the solution so that it would be easier to learn things about the solution from other users.""Perhaps the interface can be more intuitive.""Nutanix Prism can be more stable because it's not as stable as VMware.""The solution could be a bit more user-friendly. The dashboard and configuration should be much easier to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."
  • "The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."
  • "The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."
  • "Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."
  • "CAD $400,000 annually."
  • "Customers pay for the license and the support."
  • "Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."
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  • "A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved."
  • "Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great."
  • "Nutanix Prism is priced better than some of the competing solutions."
  • "This product is cheaper than using VMware."
  • "The license we bought for Nutanix Prism is perpetual, so once you have it, you can keep on using it. It's a three-year license that's paid one time. The license we have covers the three-node cluster."
  • "The license for Prism is costlier than other VMs."
  • "We have spent a lot of money on the Nutanix solution with Prism. Yet, for this amount of money we could be buying high-end storage with a lot of IOPS and bandwidth, even more than with Nutanix."
  • "Nutanix have bundles for pricing. On a single bundle, we get everything including vSAN or VMware and there are no additional costs. It is just a single license that is needed."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within… more »
    Top Answer:We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue. We would also like to see some enhancements in assignment… more »
    Top Answer:I primarily use DX UIM to capture performance data and faults.
    Top Answer:The solution's technical support is helpful and responsive.
    Top Answer:It is an expensive software. One of the challenges I have seen is that the subscription-based licensing model comes across as a recurring cost, which makes it an area of concern for our company's… more »
    Top Answer:The UI offered by the solution is okay. Some of our company's customers who use the product ask for some granular level reports which make up for an area where improvements are required. If users want… more »
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    Also Known As
    DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager
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    Overview

    DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

    Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

    Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

    Sample Customers
    CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex
    JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Insurance Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Insurance Company8%
    Consumer Goods Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise64%
    Buyer's Guide
    DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. Nutanix Prism
    July 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. Nutanix Prism and other solutions. Updated: July 2020.
    769,236 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 31st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 120 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Veeam ONE. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. Nutanix Prism report.

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