Nutanix Prism vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

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The compared Nutanix and Progress Software solutions aren't in the same category. Nutanix is ranked #5 in VM , with an average rating of 9.5, and holds a 7.3% mindshare in the category. Progress Software is ranked #25 in NMS , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Nutanix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

Nutanix Prism

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98% willing to recommend

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85% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Prism

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (5th), Data Center Infrastructure Management (8th)

WhatsUp Gold

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (44th), Network Monitoring Software (25th), Server Monitoring (18th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (23rd), Configuration Management (22nd), Log Management (41st), Cloud Monitoring Software (27th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

Nutanix Prism and WhatsUp Gold aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Nutanix Prism is designed for Virtualization Management Tools and holds a mindshare of 7.3%, down 13.6% compared to last year.
WhatsUp Gold, on the other hand, focuses on Network Monitoring Software, holds 2.0% mindshare, up 1.2% since last year.

Virtualization Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nutanix Prism	7.3%
VMware Aria Operations	22.0%
IBM Turbonomic	17.1%
Other	53.599999999999994%

Virtualization Management Tools

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
WhatsUp Gold	2.0%
NETSCOUT Network & Application Observability	3.8%
Zabbix	3.7%
Other	90.5%

Network Monitoring Software

Featured Reviews

Usha Rani

Director at Eglobe infra solutions

Provides comprehensive management with AI-driven insights and predictive analytics for seamless IT operations

The major improvement recommended for Nutanix Prism is more multi-cloud cost optimization. It shows performance and usage but is limited in detailed cross-cloud cost analysis. Improvement is needed for deeper FinOps-style ML insights that compare costs between on-premise, AWS, Azure, etc. Enhancements for the current mobile version of Prism are necessary as its functions are limited. Full mobile native control with real-time alerts and AI suggestions are required for one-click actions. Better integration with third-party tools and predictive maintenance for hardware is needed; currently, the focus is on VM and storage, not hardware life cycle. Predictions for node-level hardware failures or SSD wear-out, fan sensor alerts in advance are essential improvements, as is AI-based security threat detection focusing on unusual login patterns such as ransomware behavior or privilege escalations.

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Erik Cheng

Technical Manager at Quan Hung Gourmet

Efficient monitoring with detailed customization, yet complexity remains

The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless. I have used the automated device discovery with this topology feature. The interactive map feature helps me manage the topology because sometimes we cannot draw the topology correctly, so we need to manually edit the connections. The alerting system is very tunable and customizable, but it's a little complicated to use. Many customers cannot manage it by themselves and need support from us, the provider. We always use the dashboards in the SOC, where we constantly display a dashboard or multiple dashboards. This allows us to know immediately if the connection or bandwidth is full or if the connection is broken.

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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

"Nutanix support is excellent, and their response time is extremely fast."

"In the six years we have been using Nutanix Prism, we have never had a problem with stability."

"Since it includes everything in AI and machine learning, it surfaces issues, recommends exact solutions, often with a single click, and reduces costs too, optimizing resource usage, moving or resizing VMs to reduce over-provisioning, delaying or avoiding unnecessary hardware purchases through smarter capacity planning."

"The GUI and the dashboard are impressive. I like that you can modify the GUI and the dashboard as per your requirements."

"Before implementing Prism, we had an issue with too many alerts for similar issues, so it was difficult to maintain them. The alerts kept coming, and we had a hard time keeping track of everything. We had multiple alerts about CPU, RAM, and storage. Prism helps us identify and eliminate false alerts because most of them were redundant."

"The auto-update option is a valuable feature for us."

"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."

"The feature that stands out for me is the simplicity and ease of use. That is what comes to mind when I think about the Prism console. You don't need to be a core technical person to manage a cluster. Everything is available in the console itself."

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"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."

"The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless."

"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."

"It is stable."

"It's a good product, and if one has the expertise to use it, it will be a good investment and it will help IT to save and plan for the future."

"One thing good about WhatsUp Gold is that it is fairly stable."

"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the application monitors that allow for discreet roaming on network devices."

"Overall, we have been satisfied with the functionality of the product."

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Cons

"The automation needs to be improved, as there are several challenges."

"The initial setup is extremely complex. I am Nutanix Certified, so I had the ability, but there were still things that we weren't trained in. They mandate—not recommend, but mandate—having an approved installer do it, and it was a very painful process. The installer that we took from CDW was not good, in the extreme. I had to go back to Nutanix directly and get all the problems fixed."

"Sometimes the life cycle management function of Nutanix can't find the latest version of the firmware. The lifecycle management product could be more up-to-date."

"There is a bug with the HTML5 interface."

"Nutanix Prism could improve by having more features or configurations in the web interface. We should not have to use the command-line interface(CLI). For some clients using the CLI can be difficult."

"I would like to see the capability to use FC SAN storage."

"The process of converting and importing virtual machines to the Nutanix environment is quite complicated."

"We're running VMware's ESX hypervisor and a lot of networking isn't done in Prism, it's done at the vCenter level. But for the few proofs of concept that I've done, Prism hasn't been a good experience because there's a lot of command-line work that needs to be done to configure the network."

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"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."

"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."

"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."

"Setting up WhatsUp Gold is complicated and not easy because it requires managing SNMP and many complex settings in the devices it's monitoring, and fine-tuning it to fit our needs is also not very easy."

"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."

"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."

"The product is old and not updated."

"Honestly, I do not particularly like WhatsUp Gold. I think we should get rid of it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive in comparison to the rest of our infrastructure. But the quality is there."

"...we use it for small and medium-sized businesses. For those companies, Nutanix is too expensive, it's for bigger businesses..."

"Nutanix Prism is not inexpensive but not very expensive, given the features we get. It's cost-effective."

"A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved."

"The pricing was decent, average. It wasn't a Black Friday sale, but it was good."

"The pricing is one factor that could be better. The cluster licensing and how it works is another."

"I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap."

"Nutanix Prism is affordable. It depends on the category of license you select. They have multiple options, and we selected the one that was suitable for our infrastructure and requirements. The licensing model worked for us."

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"This is a well priced solution."

"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."

"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."

"The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."

"There is a license needed to use WhatsUp Gold."

"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."

"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."

"The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	29

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

Questions from the Community

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

I hear that Nutanix Prism is more expensive than others, but as a technical person, I don't know the details about the pricing aspect.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?

Regarding Nutanix Prism's single pane overview, the limitation is that you cannot troubleshoot all errors from Prism Central; you sometimes need to log into the CLI to change settings such as the I...

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What is your primary use case for Nutanix Prism?

I use Nutanix Prism as my HCI product. I work with Nutanix HCI, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. I use Nutanix Prism, Nutanix Prism Central, and Nutanix Move. As a reseller, we deploy Nutanix platfo...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

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What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

It would be great if WhatsUp Gold could add features that simplify management with AI, as it is currently too complicated to manage.

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What is your primary use case for WhatsUp Gold?

My use case for WhatsUp Gold includes all device availability checks, bandwidth usage, CPU, and memory usage, as well as alarm notifications.

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Compared 8% of the time

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Overview

Nutanix Prism offers a comprehensive management experience, streamlining IT infrastructure tasks with advanced integration and automation capabilities. It supports seamless management across multi-environment setups through its intuitive interface and data protection features.

Nutanix Prism provides centralized control over virtual machines, storage, and networks. Its single-pane-of-glass management allows for efficient handling of virtual desktop infrastructure and hyper-converged infrastructures. The tool is appreciated for its ease in machine learning for performance optimization and seamless virtualization support. However, users mention areas needing refinement include limited third-party integration and intuitive automation.

What are Nutanix Prism's standout features?

Integration: Ensures seamless work across multiple environments and tools.
Performance: Optimizes resources using machine learning.
Centralized Management: Streamlines control of IT infrastructure.
Scalability: Grows with the organizational demand effortlessly.
Automation: Simplifies routine IT tasks.
Visual Dashboards: Provides intuitive, customizable views for monitoring.
Microsegmentation: Enhances security within environments.

What benefits should be expected from Nutanix Prism?

Operational Efficiency: Increases productivity through centralized control and automation.
Cost Management: Reduces costs with efficient resource usage.
Enhanced Security: Offers robust safety features like microsegmentation.
Scalable Solutions: Adapts to growing infrastructure demands effortlessly.

In education and banking sectors, Nutanix Prism facilitates effective management of private cloud environments and supports hybrid solutions. These industries leverage its capabilities for efficient resource allocation and comprehensive monitoring, enhancing IT infrastructure's overall performance and reliability.

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WhatsUp Gold stands out with its comprehensive network monitoring, dynamic mapping, and real-time alerts, offering essential tools for managing extensive IT infrastructures.

WhatsUp Gold provides robust capabilities in network visibility through dynamic mapping and NetFlow analysis. The platform's interactive topology aids in pinpointing issues effectively. Auto-discovery ensures complete network device tracking. While offering an intuitive interface and integration with Cisco ServiceNow, users find server performance monitoring useful for incident handling. However, improvements are anticipated in application monitoring and Active Directory integration. The pricing model and customization options leave room for enhancement. Despite these, users benefit from its integrated dashboards for immediate device health checks and network updates, making it beneficial for large-scale infrastructure management.

What features does WhatsUp Gold offer?

Network Monitoring: Provides continuous oversight of network components
Dynamic Mapping: Offers visual representation of network topology
NetFlow Analysis: Delivers insights into bandwidth utilization
Threshold Alerts: Notifies users upon reaching set performance thresholds
Auto-Discovery: Detects devices automatically for complete network coverage

What benefits should users expect from reviews?

Comprehensive Visibility: Enhanced understanding of network elements
Real-Time Monitoring: Immediate insights into network and device status
Cost-Effectiveness: Competitive solution suitable for expansive networks
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies the management of complex networks

Organizations in sectors like telecommunications, education, and healthcare utilize WhatsUp Gold for their network monitoring needs. Telecom companies track switches and routers, educational institutions manage bandwidth usage, and healthcare facilities monitor device availability to ensure seamless operations.

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