NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Nutanix Move comparison

NetApp and Nutanix are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. NetApp is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while Nutanix is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.6. NetApp holds a 14.3% mindshare in CM, compared to Nutanix’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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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

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (2nd), Cloud Backup (13th), Public Cloud Storage Services (7th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Nutanix Move

Ranking in Cloud Migration

6th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 14.3%, down from 17.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Move is 3.7%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Joel Amate

Project Engineer at CTC

Can migrate workloads in just a click

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. There's also a manual method for workloads that can't be migrated automatically, like Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, which might not have the required PowerShell version. In these cases, we can still migrate using data migration only, but the engineer has to do more work, like reassigning IP and MAC addresses.

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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

"The ability for our users to restore data from the Snapshots is very valuable."

"We use the mirroring to mirror our volumes to our DR location. We also create snapshots for backups. Snapshots will create a specified snapshot to be able to do a DR test without disrupting our standard mirrors. That means we can create a point-in-time snapshot, then use the ability of FlexClones to make a writeable volume to test with, and then blow it away after the DR test."

"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 stability has been really good."

"Replication to the cloud is the most valuable feature. Deduplication and compression are also very important to us. We are in the process of adopting to the cloud. We are going to AWS and we are trying to do a safety technician call out with integration to the cloud. NetApp allows us to move some of the volume to the cloud, at the same time that we continue providing the cloud services that we have on premises."

"The good thing about NetApp is the features that are available on the cloud are also available on-premises."

"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."

"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."

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"The solution is stable."

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

"It is easy to set up the solution."

"The easy migration is the most valuable feature."

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

"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."

"We can change the hypervisor without any downtime."

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

Cons

"When it comes to support provided by NetApp, they have room for improvement. Every time we go through their support, we end up answering the same routine questions."

"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."

"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"The DR has room for improvement. For example, we now have NetApp in Western Europe and we would like to back up the information to another region. It's impossible. We need to bring up an additional NetApp in that other region and create a Cloud Manager automation to copy the data... I would prefer it to be a more integrated solution like it was in the NetApp solution about a year ago. I would like to see something like AltaVault but in the cloud."

"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."

"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."

"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."

"I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution."

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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."

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

"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 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."

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

"They should have some tools to migrate the workload from another Nutanix platform."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"Cloud is cloud. It's still expensive. Any good solution comes with a price tag. That's where we are looking to see how well we can manage our data in the cloud by trying to optimize the costs."

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

"It is not a cheap solution because we need to pay for the license and pay for Azure resources as well."

"Cost is a big factor, because a lot of companies can't afford enterprise grade equipment all the time. They skimp where they can. I would recommend that they improve the cost."

"We purchased the product directly from NetApp."

"It is expensive. There are no costs in addition to their standard licensing fees."

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

"It is a free tool."

"The product is available for free."

"The solution is open-source."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

21%

Healthcare Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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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?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP does have a bit of initial complexity for users who are new to the system. Although it isn't overwhelmingly complex, first-time users may find it challenging until they b...

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What do you like most about Nutanix Move?

The easy migration is the most valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Move?

The tool is bundled as part of the Nutanix license.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Move?

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 bu...

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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 this process with infrastructure-level bulk VM migrations, removing the friction associated with onboarding new infrastructure, and enabling businesses to quickly leverage the full potential of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, with near-zero VM or application service outage during migrations.

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Sample Customers

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