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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) pros and cons

Vendor: Nutanix

4.3 out of 5

200 reviews
94% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers seamless scalability, high availability, and multi-cloud integration, simplifying deployment through one-click upgrades. It enhances performance with data locality and efficient storage use while including the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) without extra costs. However, NCI needs better third-party integration, support for legacy systems, and features for high I/O workloads. Licensing and pricing are complex, and there are scalability limitations with certain applications.

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PROS

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers seamless scalability and high availability, allowing dynamic infrastructure integrations.

It simplifies deployment and management through one-click upgrades and comprehensive lifecycle management.

NCI enhances performance with features like data locality, compression, and deduplication, ensuring ultra-low latency and efficient storage use.

The Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) is included, providing integration without additional licensing costs.

NCI supports multi-cloud integration, offering reliable and flexible replication and failover capabilities.

CONS

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) needs better integration with third-party providers to enhance its hybrid cloud capabilities.

Nutanix requires more features to support high I/O workloads and better SAN attachment.

Support for older systems is lacking, affecting organizations with legacy infrastructure.

Licensing and pricing are complex and considered too high compared to competitors.

There are scalability issues and limitations in integration with certain applications and systems.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Pros review quotes

Samuel Rothenbuehler

CTO at Axians Amanox

Dec 30, 2024

Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability.

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Senior System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 28, 2016

Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set.

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Infrastructure Program Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 2, 2016

Ease of deployment

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KS

Enterprise Systems & IT Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 29, 2017

Management is simple

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Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 12, 2017

Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements.

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Technical director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Aug 9, 2017

I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses.

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System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 3, 2017

Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy.

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Data Consultant at Neuberger

May 8, 2018

Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this.

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Manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT

Nov 21, 2017

They have one of the best technical supports in my experience.

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IT Architect, Senior at American Electric Power Company, Inc.

Jun 20, 2018

Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution.

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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Cons review quotes

Samuel Rothenbuehler

CTO at Axians Amanox

Dec 30, 2024

There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads.

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Senior System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 28, 2016

The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server.

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Infrastructure Program Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 2, 2016

Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage

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KS

Enterprise Systems & IT Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 29, 2017

The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads.

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Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 12, 2017

It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level.

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Technical director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Aug 9, 2017

AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve.

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System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 3, 2017

Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity.

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Data Consultant at Neuberger

May 8, 2018

Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out.

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Manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT

Nov 21, 2017

Make it easier to manage.

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TW

IT Architect, Senior at American Electric Power Company, Inc.

Jun 20, 2018

I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central.

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Software Defined Storage (SDS)

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Popular Comparisons

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