We performed a comparison between Nutanix Prism and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtualization Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Nutanix is a HCA product and includes VMware called Nutanix Express that has been fantastic for us. We have about 100 plus VMs without any trouble and we have VCDR."
"The pricing is very good if you compare it to other competitors."
"Nutanix Prism is popular in the Indian market, particularly in enterprises where they need a DR type of environment, and where they look for less than finite RPO and RTO. If you have this environment on-premises, and if you can just rent out some portion to any of the service providers, then you can easily set up a DR environment to give you a finite list versus RPO and RTO."
"The GUI and the dashboard are impressive. I like that you can modify the GUI and the dashboard as per your requirements."
"I don't know how to explain how much time and effort switching to Nutanix HCI has saved us. It's 80 percent more time-efficient and convenient than having to use multiple interfaces to deal with storage and compute in our hypervisor."
"In the six years we have been using Nutanix Prism, we have never had a problem with stability."
"Aside from ease of use, scalability is one of the key points of this solution."
"The biggest plus that I want to commend them for is definitely their one-click update/upgrade feature. I use Prism for that and it's so amazing. That, by itself, is a selling point."
"It lets us know whether devices are getting out of date and tracked warranties. Spiceworks also gave me visibility in terms of what software was installed on each device and its status."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"It's easy to understand."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"Does not yet have micro application using a company's provider."
"Although this solution has very good analytics capabilities, it can be even more granular."
"Nutanix does not support all of the Linux distributions, so we have to use VMware in some cases."
"In our environment we are using it alongside VMware, so some integration with that would be nice. VMware has SHD (Skyline Health Diagnostics) which diagnoses health and gives suggestions. A plug-in for taking information out of it would be helpful."
"We definitely have some issues with Nutanix Prism. Our main issue is that we cannot operate the database. It would seem that less configuration would be desirable, because between Nutanix and the Oracle database on Windows, there tends to be problems."
"On the technical side, although you don't need a shutdown to upgrade Nutanix, for downgrading you do. If it were possible that when downgrading CPU or memory you didn't have to reboot the VM, that would be very helpful for us."
"Perhaps the interface can be more intuitive."
"The price could be improved."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"The GUI must be improved."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"I would like the solution to allow for more direct interaction with computers. I can open tickets and I can see their status, but I can't interact directly with the computers themselves."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 33rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Nutanix Prism is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Zabbix, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Veeam ONE, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. See our Nutanix Prism vs. Spiceworks report.
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