NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Nutanix Move comparison

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NetApp and Nutanix are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. NetApp is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.5, while Nutanix is ranked #12. NetApp holds a 5.9% mindshare in CM, compared to Nutanix’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Nutanix Move compete in the cloud storage and migration solutions category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP seems to have the upper hand in terms of features and storage efficiencies, while Nutanix Move excels in simplicity and cost-effectiveness in migrations.

Features: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers features like SnapMirror, SnapVault, and unified data management. Its high availability and disaster recovery capabilities are complemented by integration with Linux and Windows systems. Nutanix Move stands out for its simplicity in handling live migrations across hypervisors, allowing infrastructure transitions without operational interruptions. Its ability to seamlessly migrate environments with minimal downtime is a key strength.

Room for Improvement: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could improve by enhancing its cloud integration, offering better support for multiple regions, and simplifying its configuration parameters. Users also seek improved high availability functionality in the cloud. Nutanix Move could enhance flexibility by supporting migration back to original hypervisors and improving scalability. Both could benefit from more comprehensive documentation and integration capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides significant flexibility across public, private, and hybrid clouds, although customer service reviews suggest room for consistency improvement. Nutanix Move, while primarily focused on on-prem environments, offers reliable customer service and emphasizes simplicity in deployment, though lacks the variety of deployment options found in ONTAP.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP uses a nuanced pricing model that can be costly for smaller data volumes, yet offers flexible licensing and significant savings with larger data sets due to its enterprise features. Users find value in its storage efficiencies and return on investment. Nutanix Move is cost-effective, often included in the Nutanix bundle at no additional cost, appealing for minimizing migration tool expenses. Its ROI is driven by seamless integration and efficient deployment, offering substantial savings in migration time and effort.

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Migration

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (8th), Cloud Backup (28th), Public Cloud Storage Services (11th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Nutanix Move

Ranking in Cloud Migration

12th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 5.9%, down from 12.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Move is 2.7%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	5.9%
Nutanix Move	2.7%
Other	91.4%

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reviewer5948293

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Offers performance control and cloud integration while supporting data management with granular flexibility

The scalability of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is interesting. We have thought about it, but we haven't used it. I think the scalability is something you scale up rather than respond to peak demand. It wouldn't help with outages either; the scaling is manual, and there are no processes we've used to automate that for unexpected scenarios. We like the scalability; it's enough for what we're planning to use, but we haven't used any advanced features. The standard platform is NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which is their cloud service. In fact, that's probably the most experience I have with NetApp. I've experienced it on-premise, but kind of secondhand.

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Celso Toledo

Senior Infrastructure Manager, Information Technology at Pediatrix

A highly stable and simple solution used to effectively migrate VMs

The most valuable feature of Nutanix Move is its simplicity. Nutanix Move is a seamless product. You point the solution to your VM. It runs the scripts on the VMs and runs a bunch of scripts on it. Once done on the VMware side, it powers the VM down, disconnects the mix so you don't have any conflicts on your network, and brings up the converted VM on Nutanix, and you're back to work. Depending on the size of the VM and how much data you're seeding, it might be an hour, a day, or two. After the converting piece or a minute's cutover, the solution runs the final scripts, syncs up the last data, and you're back up and running. Nutanix Move is very seamless and does not impact the business.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Even compared to just standard Azure or other solutions available, this solution has allowed for probably 50 percent, or in some cases, higher storage savings."

"I highly recommend that customers using native cloud storage from hyperscalers transition to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP as it offers numerous features and functionalities such as inline deduplication, compression, compaction, autonomous ransomware protection, snapshot technology, and flex cache that are unavailable with other hyperscalers."

"The solution’s unified file and block-storage access across our infrastructure is invaluable. Without it, we can't do what we do."

"NetApp's XCP Migration Tool... was pretty awesome. It replicated the data faster than any other tool that I've seen. That was a big help."

"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."

"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."

"It's helped us to dive into the cloud very fast; we were able to adopt it very fast, run our environment very efficiently, save money with deduplication and compression, and our staff did not have to learn new systems because they could keep all the same processes and knowledge they had before."

"The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule."

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"It is easy to set up the solution."

"Nutanix Move has changed helped in making the painful process of migrating from one hypervisor to another better."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Move is its simplicity."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Move is how simple it is and the benefit of what it does."

"The easy migration is the most valuable feature."

"The solution is stable."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"The automated migration feature is the most effective. It automates the whole process, like installation from VMware to Nutanix AHV cluster. It retains the IP and MAC addresses of VMs and cleans up migrated VMs by removing VMware tools from the source. The automated migration is seamless - when we do the cutover, Nutanix Move powers off the source VM and automatically powers on the virtual machine on the Nutanix cluster."

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Cons

"The solution is not stable when using single nodes. This is a problem. NetApp should work on this solution to make it more stable with HA nodes and resolve this issue."

"The dashboard is a little bit clunky. I like to see it a little bit more on the simplistic side. I would like to be able to create my own widgets and customize what I want to see a little bit more versus what is currently there. That would be helpful so that when I log in, I go straight to my widget or my board without going to multiple places to get to what I need to find or build."

"It does not have tutorials in languages such as French, German, Spanish."

"I would like some more performance matrices to know what it is doing. It has some matrices inherent to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP. But inside Cloud Manager, it would also be nice to see. You can have a little Snapshot, then drill down if you go a little deeper."

"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."

"We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side... But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers."

"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."

"The integration wizard requires a bit of streamlining. There are small things that misconfigure or repeat the deployment that will create errors, specifically in Azure."

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"The most valuable feature is the automation. The solution will clone the data that you want to migrate, shut down the virtual machine, disconnect it from the network and start the clone virtual machine inside the solution's platform."

"I think Nutanix Move could be improved by adding a way to retry failed migrations. Sometimes when seeding fails, there's no way to redo it without recreating the whole migration plan. I'd like a button to restart the process without creating a migration plan."

"We can migrate from Hyper-V to Acropolis, but we can't move from Acropolis back to Hyper-V. However, we do not have customers who want to, but if we could reassure them that it was possible it would be better. Having our Hyper-V customers have a two-way option that may help. A customer would like to hear that if they do switch they can switch back. I know it's a limitation on Hyper-V but not a limitation on VMware."

"We'd like Nutanix to be more flexible in the future."

"Nutanix Move could be made more scalable, so you could do more instead of taking five or ten VMs at a time."

"We can migrate from Hyper-V to Acropolis, but we can't move from Acropolis back to Hyper-V."

"We cannot use the solution to move a machine from Nutanix to other hypervisors."

"When you have regular questions, like how do I do something in the tool or when you want to know when can I do anything in the product, the solution's support team can take around three to four days to give you an answer, or they may even sometimes take more time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

"The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately."

"Some flexibility around the licensing model would help. The product is licensed based on capacity. Basically, the largest capacity license that you can buy is 368 terabytes. At this point, NetApp is addressing some people's concerns around this."

"The pricing could be improved. It is a good product, but it is very expensive for me."

"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"We find the pricing to be favorable due to the educational sector we belong to."

"The standard pricing is online. Pricing depends. If you're using the PayGo model, then it's just the normal costs on the Microsoft page. If you're using Bring Your Own License, which is what we're doing, then you get with your sales contact at NetApp and start figuring out what price is the best, in the end, for your company."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

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"It is a free tool."

"The tool is bundled as part of the Nutanix license."

"The product is available for free."

"The solution is open-source."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

15%

Healthcare Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	53

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is actually quite reasonable in price compared to other native cloud storage options. For example, a customer using 100 TB of AWS storage would not benefit from deduplica...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

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What is your primary use case for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

I use NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP mostly in customer companies.

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Also Known As

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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Overview

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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Nutanix Move simplifies automated and seamless migrations without downtime, integrating smoothly with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. It automates essential tasks, retaining network configurations, and offers flexibility for manual interventions, ensuring minimal business disruption during migration.

Nutanix Move is a key tool for organizations migrating virtual machines to Acropolis Hypervisor from VMware or Hyper-V. Users benefit from its ability to transfer between hypervisors and its support for physical to virtual conversions. The migration process is fully automated, efficient, and maintains IP and MAC addresses while allowing manual adjustments. Though user-friendly and cost-effective, some enhancements, such as reverse migration support from Acropolis to Hyper-V and improved scalability for multiple simultaneous VM migrations, are needed. Users also express a need for migration tools for other Nutanix platforms and an option for direct migration from vSphere without vCenter dependency. Despite these areas for improvement, Nutanix Move efficiently supports significant data migrations and adapts to different infrastructures across availability zones.

What are Nutanix Move's key features?

Automated Migration: Streamlines migration with no downtime, retaining IP and MAC addresses.
Seamless Integration: Works well with VMware and Hyper-V for smooth transitions.
Flexible Setup: User-friendly setup process, supporting large data migrations.

What benefits should users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Favorable pricing for extensive migration needs.
Minimal Disruption: Ensures business continuity with live migration capabilities.
Enhanced Flexibility: Supports a wide range of infrastructure transitions and availability zones.

Organizations in diverse industries use Nutanix Move to transfer virtual machines across different platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, and Acropolis Hypervisor. It supports varied setups including Nutanix, Azure, and AWS, meeting the needs for flexibility and efficient data handling in complex infrastructures.

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Sample Customers

1. Accenture 2. Acer 3. Adidas 4. Aetna 5. AIG 6. Apple 7. Bank of America 8. Barclays 9. Bayer 10. Berkshire Hathaway 11. BNP Paribas 12. Cisco 13. Coca-Cola 14. Comcast 15.ConocoPhillips 16. CVS Health 17. Dell 18. Deutsche Bank 19. eBay 20. Eli Lilly 21. FedEx 22. Ford 23. Freescale Semiconductor 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. Honeywell 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. Intuit 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. KeyCorp 33. Liberty Mutual 34. L'Oréal 35. Mastercard

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