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Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) pros and cons

Vendor: Nutanix

4.3 out of 5

27 reviews
92% willing to recommend

167 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) enables robust access to on-premises applications in the cloud, boasting scalability and reduced admin work. Key features include Prism Central, micro-segmentation, and automation, with seamless failover and disaster recovery reducing downtime. Pricing affects cost-effectiveness, and improvements are needed in documentation, support, and networking. Quality control in pricing and license model transitions requires attention, ensuring better usability for tech buyers.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) offers full features of Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud, providing flexibility and comprehensive control.

Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and automated cluster scaling are valuable features of Nutanix Clusters.

NC2's scalability allows businesses to grow at the speed of business and is not limited by hardware constraints.

NC2 enhances disaster recovery capabilities, enabling quick failover and recovery, reducing down times significantly.

NC2 reduces administration workload and offers outstanding customer service and technical support.

CONS

Adoption rate is low due to lack of customer awareness.

Pricing can be improved.

Technical support and customer service require enhancement.

Documentation needs more clarity.

Better synchronization tools for on-prem and cloud environments are needed.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Pros review quotes

JY

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

May 7, 2025

What I admire most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is its scalability; that option that everybody seems to eventually go to is cloud, and we're ready for that when we decide. This feature of scalability has improved my company because we can grow at the speed of business, and that's very important.

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MZ

ITOps at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

We spent a year on this ASR project and had so many issues when we attempted to do a failover. It took four to 24 hours to failover a couple of SQL VMs. During our first test deployment of NC2, it only took three or four minutes to failover and recover our VMs. This blew the Microsoft platform out of the water.

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TH

Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

May 7, 2025

I'm not an AWS expert at all, but I can totally manage my Nutanix clusters, the same as I do on-prem. The fact that I can quickly and easily stand up servers or nodes instantly has been an amazing help.

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Virtualization engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

May 8, 2025

The feature I probably appreciate the most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is its scalability—how quickly I can deploy more nodes on a cluster and remove nodes.

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NM

Senior Digital Infrastructure Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees

May 24, 2023

In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution.

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VK

Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

May 8, 2025

The features I appreciate most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are that we don't need to manage the hardware to start up with, and it is being managed by Microsoft currently, so that is hands-off.

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BI

Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC

May 7, 2025

The feature I find most valuable about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the portability.

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LB

owner at Xinaptics

May 21, 2024

We can do anything throughout the infrastructure from one console. This is the best for us.

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reviewer2183865

Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2023

Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful.

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George Oliveira

Infrastructure Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

Our previous solution was inconsistent and took a long time to recover. NC2 consistently delivers full disaster recovery in a few hours. That was a huge selling point. We need to know that our business can be up and running in hours, not days. We didn't have a real disaster recovery plan before NC2. That's a goal we've been trying to achieve, and Nutanix gives us what we need to make that a reality

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Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Cons review quotes

JY

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

May 7, 2025

My suggestion would be getting up to speed on ransomware and evolving, as attackers are always one step ahead of what's out there.

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MZ

ITOps at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

Our biggest complaint is that we constantly need to open support tickets about bugs when we upgrade to the latest version. For example, our static IPs failover into Azure but switch to DHCP.

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TH

Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

May 7, 2025

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved with some more tools that could help synchronize on-prem and cloud stuff better.

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Virtualization engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

May 8, 2025

I believe that networking is one of the biggest improvements. They have a great stock already, but some use cases, particularly around incrementally spinning up workloads, haven't been considered closely enough. As we're putting workloads on there by adding a few VMs at a time, there are networking aspects that need to be considered more closely. It's great once everything's there, but incrementally getting things there is what's difficult.

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NM

Senior Digital Infrastructure Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees

May 24, 2023

Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the documentation around the solution.

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VK

Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

May 8, 2025

Improvement is obviously needed in pricing; I cannot pinpoint where else I would suggest improvements.

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BI

Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC

May 7, 2025

Some features that people say Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) lacks could be simplified to make it easier, such as a single pane of glass, and getting more into Google Cloud would be very helpful for our team as we're working on GCP interfaces.

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LB

owner at Xinaptics

May 21, 2024

I don't have the expertise to build a hybrid cloud. We are starting to build one and haven't tried that part yet. I want to try because that is the most critical part for us. I want to see what, if anything, could be improved. The product is fantastic locally. Now, I want to try it in the cloud. My problem is not in the infrastructure; it is in the application, a different thing.

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reviewer2183865

Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2023

We've had some challenges with the implementation.

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George Oliveira

Infrastructure Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 21, 2024

In the current version, we've noticed many false positives when we check the alerts in the morning. For example, it told us that services stopped working, but there was nothing wrong when we checked it out. We've already raised the issue with support. They told us it's a bug in the version we use. We're about to upgrade to the recommended version, so it should be fine.

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Product Categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

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Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

Popular Comparisons

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Microsoft Azure vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Amazon AWS vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

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