We have four Nutanix clusters at different sites and we are using it as our hyper-converged infrastructure solution.
By using more than one cluster, if any node is down, the VMs can be moved to a remaining node, and that helps us to work without any downtime. A node can be moved, online, to another node, which minimizes downtime as much as possible.
Flow Network Security for microsegmentation also helps in maintaining security. For example, we can protect servers with policies between an application server and a database server.
Previously we had our own storage, stand-alone servers, and stand-alone network. For any new project, it would take us at least six months until we could provide a new server. Now, when we have a new product, we can avoid that long wait and provide a server in hours.
We have also moved all our servers to Nutanix and have been able to eliminate our legacy servers and infrastructure.
And it keeps our IT staff informed by email regarding any error or alert. They log in and get a full view of all our servers, including memory, storage, and CPU usage. It helps our IT staff to be more productive.
The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage all our infrastructure.
It's so easy to configure anything on Nutanix. We have had Nutanix for more than five years and all our products are on it. It's really easy to manage them. We can monitor our servers and get notified if there is any issue with a server and correct it before a problem happens.
They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better.
We have been using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) for five years.
It's very stable. We haven't had any issues with Nutanix.
It's so easy to scale out or scale in our infrastructure.
If we have any issue, we contact their support and they solve it within the SLA time. They are very helpful and respond to us as soon as possible.
We had another solution, VxRail. We did a comparison between Dell VxRail and Nutanix and we found that Nutanix is more compatible with our organization.
The initial deployment was easy.
We installed Nutanix in multiple locations: at three sites in Egypt and one in Indonesia. We have the main site and a DR site in Egypt. There are three people on our IT team who administer the four clusters.
We have had to do maintenance on the hard disk two times in the last four years. And upgrading our Nutanix servers takes one click. We have upgraded our firmware and AHV and it is so easy. It's also very easy to add compute and storage. We just click to expand a cluster and add new nodes.
Nutanix has helped us to reduce the cost of the operations in our company.
The price of Nutanix is lower than other products.
My advice is to purchase Nutanix. It will help with your infrastructure.