Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

Nutanix and VMware are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Nutanix is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while VMware is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0. Nutanix holds a 6.0% mindshare in CM, compared to VMware’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Nutanix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of VMware users who would recommend it.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth and Nutanix Cloud Manager compete in cloud management solutions. CloudHealth has an edge in financial cost management, appealing to budget-conscious organizations, while Nutanix Cloud Manager shines with its integration and automation capabilities.

Features: VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth offers financial visibility, cost optimization, and policy-driven governance. Nutanix Cloud Manager provides multi-cloud control, automation, and integration, offering a holistic management approach.

Room for Improvement: CloudHealth could improve its deployment speed, integration options, and user interface. Nutanix Cloud Manager might enhance cost transparency, offer more customization, and simplify pricing structures.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth requires more setup time but is supported by strong customer service. Nutanix Cloud Manager is known for intuitive setup and streamlined deployment with proactive support services, allowing quicker full-scale management.

Pricing and ROI: CloudHealth provides competitive pricing with immediate cost-saving potential, ideal for budget-focused organizations. Nutanix Cloud Manager's higher initial cost is offset by long-term ROI due to robust integration and automation features, offering a justified investment over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)

Ranking in Cloud Management

2nd

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (4th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (7th)

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth

Ranking in Cloud Management

21st

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is 6.0%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 2.0%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Raouf Mahfoud Silhadi

Spécialiste VMware at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Managing diverse environments has been streamlined with robust disaster recovery features and automation capabilities

The most valuable features I have found with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) are related to Disaster Recovery, specifically the Nutanix Disaster Recovery solution with Prism Central, and Flow micro-segmentation. Flow micro-segmentation is part of the Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) networking capabilities, and most scenarios are related to standard clusters with Disaster Recovery, including environments with both Nutanix AHV and VMware. The importance of faster outcomes for their environment is significant; for example, when I delivered the Disaster Recovery solution, we included automation for auto-configuration of VMs and resizing of VMs, which replaced many tasks that were previously done manually. The implementation of automation solutions helps free up time for their IT team, allowing them to manage more of the application part rather than the infrastructure, especially for stability and automation tasks from Nutanix.

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Steve Staten

Cloud Advisor Specialist at Converge Technology Solutions Corp

The solution has excellent scalability, great dashboards, and is stable

I use the solution daily, multiple hours a day to identify possible savings by analyzing the various displays as well as the policies for possible cost savings for our customers CloudHelth has helped our organization with trying to right-size virtual machines based on current utilization 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 feature of Nutanix Cloud Manager is the flexibility we're finding in expanding our technology and our support."

"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is the one-click upgrade and the analytics it can provide for hyper-converged infrastructure."

"It made it a lot easier to spin up these tenant environments with little to no administrative overhead."

"The solution has automated reports and workflows. You can configure it to automatically send out reports to the business units responsible for managing cloud costs, so you don't need to log into the tool to get information. Cost Governance's user interface and dashboards are beautiful. The customers love it because it's easy to use. They can run it and get a report an hour later to immediately see the savings."

"There is less management for the team than before, so there is a complete gain of time. It freed up our staff's time for other work. This is something that is important for our company."

"NCM gives us greater insight into our infrastructure because we have more reporting and alert capabilities. We can get a breakdown of VM efficiency and determine which ones are over-provisioned, constrained, or using up too many resources in an instance."

"The best part of it is that when you use the product, there's no secret proprietary magic that you experience as a user. The real genius is under the covers, so it makes the user experience very straightforward and easy. It's a wonderful solution to teach partners about. The ease of use is something a lot of suppliers talk about, but Nutanix does it better than anyone else."

"The product is pretty intuitive and easy to learn."

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"The solution is good for cloud cost management."

"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."

"The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations"

"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."

"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."

"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."

"The pricing is rather competitive right now."

"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."

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Cons

"While there are multiple clouds supported, we want less friction around the ease of delivery. We want the ability to integrate other clouds, unify the accounts."

"Perhaps the only point I see as an improvement would be the support of multiple languages in the environment. One of the few things within which I see an improvement point could be the inclusion of multilanguage in the environment."

"I cannot say Calm is providing centralized control of all our applications because we have some legacy systems. We have IBM iSeries, which is another technology. But with Calm we can centralize all our x86 machines."

"I would appreciate more advanced networking features in the dashboard."

"Azure has a public cloud offering, and it also has a CSP model that allows Microsoft partners to provide Azure as a service to their customers. Cost Governance only works on the standard public cloud, not the CSP model. When I was at my previous company, we frequently got requests for Azure CSP support. We also got some requests for Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud, but Azure CSP was the biggest one."

"The solution's virtualization could be even better."

"The biggest issue we've run into is not being able to quickly share information."

"The list of blueprints and applications could be more configurable so you see all the fields you need and not just some predefined fields which are not customizable now."

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"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."

"The Perspectives feature could be better."

"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."

"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."

"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."

"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."

"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."

"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is less compared to Hyper-V."

"I rate Cost Governance an eight out of 10 for pricing. There are different plans, so you can pay monthly or yearly. You can also sign a three-year contract. It's quite flexible. I can't give it a perfect 10, because customers always want a cheaper solution."

"In Brazil, Nutanix Cloud Manager is not cheap. However, Nutanix offers different options such as long-term contracts."

"Don't unlicense your Prism licensing. Pro is the strict minimum for real infrastructure. Go with at least Pro and not with the starter. Ultimate was the best choice for me."

"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."

"Some people say that Nutanix is a bit more expensive. However, when we were looking at Nutanix versus Cisco and NetApp before deploying this solution, the prices were very similar. Being a government entity, we got a bit more of a discount on Nutanix so it was a bit cheaper. The time savings after the fact has been really worth it."

"At the end of the day, the product justifies the cost, and it leads to a conversation with management over whether we actually need this feature and if there are any use cases for why we would want to keep it."

"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."

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"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."

"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."

"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

35%

Educational Organization

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Educational Organization

24%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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What do you like most about CloudHealth?

The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.

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What needs improvement with CloudHealth?

There could be flexibility in pricing for the product. They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size. It will help us get the right cost. Ad...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?

I rate VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth an eight out of ten.

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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

Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, CloudHealth

Overview

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a cloud management tool that drives consistent governance across private and public clouds for its users. The solution brings simplicity and ease of use to managing and building cloud deployments by providing a unified multicloud management that addresses common cloud adoption challenges.

Nutanix Cloud Manager offers four key value drivers:

Intelligent operations: They include monitoring, insights, and automated remediation.
Self-service and orchestration: This capacity category of the product includes tools for managing application and infrastructure workloads across multicloud environments.
Cost governance: NCM offers cost governance through accurate visibility into public and private cloud metering, cost optimization, and chargeback.
Security central: The solution facilitates users' security operations through alert automations with intelligent analysis and compliance controls.

Nutanix Cloud Manager provides coverage for Nutanix private clouds as well as for VMware's. The solution also supports several popular public cloud providers, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). NCM provides additional flexibility for users, as it is also available as a fully managed Software as a Service (SaaS). This product allows companies to benefit from all of Nutanix multicloud self-services, application automation, security compliance, and governance, without depending on Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Features

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) has features in the four key categories already mentioned. Some of the main capacities of the solution include:

Codeless task automation: This Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) feature allows IT teams to build automation and improve productivity with zero coding required.
Automated optimization: This feature detects the performance of VM deviates and raises an anomaly alert automatically without the need for configuration.
Capacity usage and scenario analysis: This feature’s runways enable pay-as-you-grow scaling and improves capacity usage with optimizations.
Self-service provisioning: This feature allows users to publish blueprints directly to end users through Nutanix Marketplace.
Application lifecycle management: Through this NCM feature, users can provision, configure, scale, upgrade, and delete applications across cloud environments as well as provide access to multiple teams at a time.
Hybrid multicloud orchestration: This Nutanix Cloud Manager feature allows users to automate the provisioning of hybrid cloud architectures from a single control plane.
Showback, chargeback, and budgeting: Nutanix Cloud Manager uses this feature to allow users to automatically create cloud consumption reports, define chargeback policies, and set up budget alerts.
Automated right-sizing and intelligent purchases: Through leveraging machine learning (ML) algorithms, users can benefit from the automatic detection of anomalous spending patterns.
Security monitoring and remediation: This feature of Nutanix Cloud Manager allows users to utilize over 250 audits for public clouds and over 500 for Nutanix on-premises.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Benefits

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) provides its users with several benefits. These include:

Nutanix Cloud Manager offers intelligent operations through the automation of operational tasks.
NCM gives users self-service opportunities and centralized role-based IT governance, which allows them the freedom to control their processes better.
Companies can benefit from cost and security governance with intelligent analysis and regulatory compliance.
The product has been made available across all regions in 2022, allowing worldwide access to its services without limitations.
NCM is suitable for beginners, as it offers low to no code actions.
Nutanix Cloud Manager provides real-time security, ensuring the cloud data of companies is protected at all times.

Reviews from Real Users

An IT Operations at an energy/utilities company likes Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) because the product provides visibility, simplifies operations, and saves time and cost.

Drew P., a network systems administrator at Moda Health, rates NCM highly because the product saves man-hours with excellent speed on outcomes and provides a continuous validation process.

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VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, formerly known as VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth, is a specialized cloud management platform tailored for Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization. It offers comprehensive visibility into cloud spending across various providers, enabling users to identify areas for optimization and make informed resource allocation decisions. With features like reserved instance management, resource rightsizing, and automated cost governance policies, it facilitates financial management for optimal cost efficiency. Beyond cost optimization, Tanzu CloudHealth enhances cloud operations through workload optimization and governance automation, catering to multi-cloud environments encompassing public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its primary focus remains on enabling organizations to effectively manage and reduce cloud expenditures while supporting operations across diverse cloud platforms.

VMware

Sample Customers

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

Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas

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