We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VMware Cloud Foundation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the disaster recovery software."
"VMware Cloud Foundation's most valuable features are password and certificate management. The SDDC manager tool is the front tool we are using to manage the entire VCF stack. In the SDDC manager, we can able to rotate, and update the passwords of all users. Anything in the VMware portfolio, we can manage from a single dashboard and we have various data centers. We have connected everything into one Federation. From one single place, we are managing our entire virtual interactions."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of migrating from on-premises infrastructure when transitioning away from older systems."
"The product enables flexibility in network structures."
"VMware Cloud Foundation provides us with the vSphere dashboard through which we can manage, monitor, schedule, and spin up your virtual machines. We can manage, monitor, and get reports of your infrastructure."
"The stability is good."
"They have in release 4.0 features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center."
"The most valuable aspect of VMware Cloud Foundation is you can manage everything from area."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"The latency needs improvement"
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"The documentation could be easier to read"
"I would like to be able to connect the APIs."
"The price could be better. VMware Cloud Foundation is overpriced, but I think we get what we pay for. It would be better if it were cheaper because it would be easier to go to customers and get them to buy it. We'd get more projects, and that would be great."
"The pricing could be a bit less expensive."
"Working on features that could include the capability to migrate workflows from non-VMware environments would be highly beneficial."
"Cost is a challenge when convincing clients, especially for large deals."
"The customization has room for improvement."
"Life cycle management is an area for improvement."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 194 reviews while VMware Cloud Foundation is ranked 2nd in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 23 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VMware Cloud Foundation is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Cloud Foundation writes "Reliable with good hyper-converged sizing flexibility and an automated setup". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas VMware Cloud Foundation is most compared with Azure Stack, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), AWS Outposts and Google Anthos. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. VMware Cloud Foundation report.
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