Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs Red Hat CloudForms comparison

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Nutanix and Red Hat are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Nutanix is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.8, while Red Hat is ranked #37. Nutanix holds a 2.4% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Nutanix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 15, 2026

Red Hat CloudForms and Nutanix Cloud Manager compete in cloud management solutions. Nutanix Cloud Manager seems to have the upper hand due to its superior features and performance, justifying its cost.

Features: Red Hat CloudForms offers robust multi-cloud management capabilities, automation, and resource optimization. Nutanix Cloud Manager is recognized for comprehensive infrastructure management, intelligent operations, and enhanced automation features, presenting a wider feature set suitable for businesses seeking advanced capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Red Hat CloudForms could enhance by simplifying deployment processes, expanding advanced automation features, and improving integration with non-open-source platforms. Nutanix Cloud Manager may benefit from more cost-effective pricing, expanding customer support options in diverse regions, and enhancing integration with legacy systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Red Hat CloudForms typically requires a longer deployment timeframe but is supported by strong service assistance. Nutanix Cloud Manager stands out with a streamlined deployment process and responsive customer service, making it a more appealing option for rapid implementation and continued assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Red Hat CloudForms provides a cost-effective setup, aligning well with budget-conscious strategies. Nutanix Cloud Manager, although potentially higher in initial costs, tends to deliver better ROI through its advanced capabilities and efficiencies, offering long-term value for organizations focusing on sustained outcomes.

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Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)

Ranking in Cloud Management

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

126

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (5th), Virtualization Management Tools (1st), Cloud Cost Management (2nd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (10th)

Red Hat CloudForms

Ranking in Cloud Management

37th

Average Rating

6.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is 2.4%, down from 5.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat CloudForms is 1.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)	2.4%
Red Hat CloudForms	1.8%
Other	95.8%

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Vijaykumar Talreja

Global Group CIO, CTO, Cdo & CISO at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

Centralized multi-cloud management has simplified automation and boosted operational efficiency

Some downsides of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) are that it has very high cost and licensing complexity, particularly for smaller environments, making it more suited for larger environments. On the learning curve and support, while Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is user-friendly in some areas, the initial setup is complex and sometimes requires very specialized expertise, creating a steep learning curve. There is also limited third-party integration, as it has very limited non-native integrations compared to competitors. The documentation has gaps, particularly for advanced features, requiring some improvement, and certain advanced configurations and troubleshooting still require heavy reliance on the command-line interface rather than having a GUI.

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Ilhami Arikan

Cloud Services Automation Technologies Manager at Garanti Teknoloji

A stable solution that helps to provision servers

We use the solution to provision servers. I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs. The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved. I would rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten. I would rate the product's scalability a seven out of ten and…

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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 most valuable features of this solution are visibility, the single console, capacity planning, the VM efficiencies. We have a recovery plan, security, policies policy security. That's why we implement it with your customers."

"The major attraction point of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is that everything is auto-scaling."

"The most valuable feature is less or no implementation time. It should be up and running at any point in time so I don't spend time in transformation."

"One of the solution's greatest strengths is its "Single pane of glass" feature, which allows users to access all pertinent data in one location immediately upon logging in. Additionally, the solution's ease of deployment and mobility are notable aspects that I personally find appealing."

"Previous inquiries took us almost a full day to prepare the VM to the liking of our users. Now the deployment time is below 15 minutes and users can do it on their own! That leaves us to only update the blueprints if new requirements come in or new Windows Versions are published. As we have now predefined setups the testing team can rely on common ground for their product tests. Development teams can experiment with alpha versions in a secured environment (separate VLANs) without harming production machines."

"Using the built-in playbooks in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) has freed up a lot of time for my IT team and me, allowing us to focus on other tasks."

"The most valuable aspect of NCM is its ease of deployment."

"It's easily expandable storage-wise and compute-wise."

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"I am impressed with the product's reports."

"The stability of the solution is very good, and we haven't had any issues with it."

"I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs."

"The optimization of the solution is quite interesting."

"Red Hat CloudForms is a stable product. There is no issue with the stability."

"The integration with other open-source tools is pretty good; it integrates particularly well with Kubernetes and Docker, and they are a very mature product."

"The multi-tenancy feature has been very helpful for our clients. It has been working fine and seamlessly for them. Its interface is also very simplified, and it is also an open and easy-to-scale solution."

"The solution is compatible and integrates with various infrastructures or providers."

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Cons

"In the gambling industry, you have a lot of regulation from different countries. One of those regulations states that you have to be able to send all the logs of your Prism to a separate server, what we call the syslog server. On Prism Central, this doesn't work. We have opened a case for it, since this is a basic feature nowadays. We spoke to Nutanix, and they said that it will be in future updates. We did an update, following their support, but once we did the update, it wasn't fixed."

"I think the Prism Center needs to include more functions. I know that they're including the Nutanix Era, which is the database management and disaster recovery tool. I think that Era should include everything on a single tool where you can manage everything you need inside your organization."

"In the next release, I would like to see more cloud providers like Micro BH or local providers."

"NCM's analytics could be better because we're not getting an accurate analysis of our virtual machines, and we're over-provisioning some of them."

"The interoperability with different clouds can be better so that one can even integrate the infrastructure of different clouds. They can interoperate better with other clouds because currently, you have to buy Nutanix resources in the cloud."

"Pricing could be worked on a bit. I feel that when I talk to people about it who have looked into Nutanix, they say, "Well, it's pretty expensive compared to the other thing I was looking at.""

"I do, however, wish that the cluster would come preinstalled with the OS, as ours did not, and it took quite a bit of tinkering, trial and error, calls to Nutanix support, and an ample amount of time to figure out how to get everything up and running."

"In some ways, Nutanix Cloud Manager abstracts out certain items in a simplified manner, which makes it good for training. At other times, to get to the next technical level, we want to actually dive in, and Nutanix Cloud Manager sometimes restricts us from actually diving into the deeper technical pieces. There's no advance button that lets us do more advanced things without having to drop out to the CLI to do the command line piece."

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"Our clients had challenges or issues with the updates. Its updates should be better managed. They should provide quicker and more stable updates. Its stability can also be better. We initially faced ease-of-use and compatibility issues while integrating it. We had a lot of compatibility issues with other products. Our clients are concerned about whether it is under IBM or it is still Red Hat. Clients are not very clear about the support, and they're not really happy with it. Currently, they're getting support from Red Hat, but going forward, they're not really clear about what would be the life cycle of the product, which is a concern for them."

"All of the areas of Red Hat CloudForms could improve. It doesn't do half of the things that it says it can do out of the box. It takes configuration to make any of it work, which is not uncommon for solutions similar to this. However, it is frustrating."

"It is difficult to create a complete dashboard that includes all the needed features or catalogs."

"Red Hat CloudForms could improve by allowing more customization of reports. We have to do a lot of coding to accomplish what we want. Additionally, the compatibility with the multi-cloud could improve. The latter versions of the solution removed Google support and the cost comparison between other clouds was high."

"I have issues with the solution's permissions. Unlike VMware, the product doesn't allow folder-type permissions."

"Because the solution needs to integrate with other products that surround it, there is a lot of configuration required, and this can be quite complex. It's not as easy as it is with, for example, VMware."

"The complexity of the solution is a bit high in comparison to VMware."

"Our clients had challenges or issues with the updates. Its updates should be better managed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its licensing is cheaper than VMware. However, the price for certain licenses or use cases is not clearly indicated. For example, replication of the cluster to switch from one VM to another when one is down is not included in the standard price. It requires an additional license, but it is not clearly indicated."

"Nutanix Cloud Manager is an expensive solution."

"We have the ultimate license, so I don't know what it would cost individually."

"The product is expensive...When I have to sell the tool to a customer, I would say that it is not very expensive and can be termed priceless."

"The pricing was quite competitive and a lot lower compared to other solutions. It wasn't cheap, but it was not as expensive."

"You will see great value from it if you utilize the self-service part of Calm. The price you pay for it will only give you equal value if you use the self-service part to enable other teams. If you only use it as a deployment mechanism, I think it's rather expensive."

"The price is probably right where it should be. It's not vastly expensive, and it's not too cheap. We get very good value for the price with what we're being offered with it."

"On a scale from one to ten, if one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the solution's pricing a six."

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"The product's licensing is based on the number of servers."

"It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there."

"Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want."

"Red Hat CloudForms is a bit expensive."

"The price of Red Hat CloudForms was not competitive, it was expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Marketing Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Transportation Company

10%

Construction Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	75

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

Which set of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) features do you find to be the most useful?

For me, the features related to cost savings are the best part of NCM. Of course, the whole product is worth using and when it comes to cloud management, there is a reason why it is favored by so m...

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Are the setup process and further maintenance of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) difficult?

When I came into my current organization, NCM was already set up. According to the team that dealt with it, the product was fairly easy to set up. Compared to other products, our IT rates are set u...

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Is Nutanix Cloud Manager’s Intelligent Operations feature effective?

Yes, this is a highly effective feature and the rebranding only made things better as they introduced more improvements. You can benefit from Zero coding task automation Automated optimization Tic...

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Also Known As

Nutanix Cloud Manager Intelligent Operations, Nutanix Cloud Manager Self-Service, Nutanix Cloud Management Cost Governance, Nutanix Cloud Manager Security Central, Nutanix Software Subscription

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Overview

Nutanix Cloud Manager streamlines hybrid cloud management by offering centralized control, automation, and workload optimization across platforms. It improves operational efficiency while reducing IT management complexity.

Nutanix Cloud Manager is designed for comprehensive hybrid cloud governance, providing tools for virtualization, resource allocation, and compliance. Its features include one-click upgrades, dynamic dashboards, and the seamless automation of tasks through X-Play. Users can efficiently manage virtual machines, ensure secure storage, and enhance productivity with predictive monitoring. Self-service capabilities allow users to reserve resources easily, while central management via Prism Pro and automated reports enhance oversight and decision-making. Challenges include UI simplicity, pricing transparency, and licensing efficiency, with users seeking improvements in VM organization, blueprint customization, and collaborative support for hybrid environments.

What important features define Nutanix Cloud Manager?

One-click Upgrades: Simplifies the process of updating and maintaining systems.
Intuitive Interface: Offers a user-friendly experience with a low learning curve.
Prism Pro: Central management for streamlined control over environments.
Dynamic Dashboards: Provides real-time insights and monitoring capabilities.
X-Play Automation: Facilitates seamless and efficient task automation.
Capacity Planning: Assists in optimal resource allocation and future growth planning.
Compliance Monitoring: Ensures adherence to industry standards and policies.
Efficient VM Management: Enhances control and monitoring of virtual machines.
Self-service Capabilities: Empowers users to manage and allocate resources independently.
Cost Governance: Allows organizations to maintain budgetary control and efficiency.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating Nutanix Cloud Manager?

Enhanced Productivity: Streamlines tasks and improves efficiency through automation.
Predictive Monitoring: Proactively addresses potential issues before they impact operations.
Robust Disaster Recovery: Provides reliable solutions to recover data and maintain continuity.
Automated Reports: Generates timely insights for informed decision-making.
Unified Cloud Management: Offers comprehensive control across multiple environments.

Nutanix Cloud Manager finds utility in industries requiring robust hybrid cloud strategies like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. It excels in centralizing management for secure and compliant operations, optimizing workloads, and providing scalable solutions for resource allocation and compliance monitoring, thus enhancing cloud operations in diverse markets.

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Red Hat CloudForms is a robust management platform that integrates seamlessly with open-source technologies like Kubernetes and Docker. It offers flexibility with diverse infrastructures, scalability, and dynamic catalog creation.

Red Hat CloudForms supports service providers in UAE by offering a central console for infrastructure management. Known for its multi-tenancy and streamlined interface, it facilitates seamless integration with infrastructures like Nexus, Solaris, IBM, and VMware. Despite its strengths, challenges such as complexity and user-friendliness have been noted, with users requesting predefined modules, enhanced dashboards, and improved customization. The cost and platform lifecycle remain concerns, especially when compared to competitors like VMware. Permission refinement and provisioning engine improvements are also needed, as well as better cloud service integration and stability.

What features make Red Hat CloudForms stand out?

Seamless Integration: Works well with open-source components like Kubernetes and Docker.
Multi-Tenancy: Allows multiple users with separate environments.
Scalability: Designed to grow with infrastructure needs.
Dynamic Catalog Creation: Offers customized service delivery.
Report Capabilities: Provides in-depth analytics and reporting options.

What benefits and ROI should be evaluated?

Flexibility: Supports diverse infrastructures like VMware and IBM.
Self-Service Provisioning: Reduces time to deploy and manage VMs.
Automated Infrastructure: Automates code for more efficient management.
Integration Opportunities: Works with Ansible Tower for application management.

In industries, Red Hat CloudForms serves as a central hub for service providers, managing and orchestrating platforms like NETGEAR, KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware. Automation of infrastructure code, server management, and cloud infrastructure evaluation are core use cases, with users integrating technologies like Ansible Tower for daily task management and access delegation.

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Sample Customers

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco

Cox Automotive, Penn State, FICO, G-ABLE, Seneca College, ITandTEL, The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), MyRepublic, Macquarie, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CBTS, Network Data Solutions (NDS)

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