Nutanix Prism Reviews

I work as an ICT System Administrator in a tertiary institution and Nutanix is the platform we use for virtual desktop, VDI. We have approximately 200 members using the solution in addition to which we also have 350 students. The students only use it on a floating desktop pool, not concurrently.

The most valuable feature would be performance. Since we began using Nutanix the performance for virtual desktops is much better. It's easy to manage Nutanix with no downtime during periods of maintenance. There has also been a big improvement in the dashboard which is now very easy compared to earlier solutions.

The main area where an improvement could be made would be the pricing. Aside from that, it's a very good product.

An additional feature that could be included would be to make an easy connection to closed systems such as Azure.

I've been using Nutanix for five years. 

The product has excellent stability. 

It's very easy to scale because it's a cluster. We started with four nodes then add a fifth to add a vision computer. There were no issues and no down time.  

Customer support has improved a lot since the early days. 

I would advise others using VDI to add All-Flash clusters, so no ordinary disk, but All-Flash disks for performance. That's something I would suggest, but that is more specific for VDI environments.

I would rate this product a nine out of 10. 

We are a distributor and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our clients.

The most valuable features are the dashboards.

Prism Central, which is an aggregation of many Prisms, is very helpful.

Extra products are able to integrate directly into the Prism console.

In the next release, I would like the ability to browse data stores directly from the Prism interface instead of using third party product.

I have been using Nutanix Prism for about five months.

Nutanix Prism is a stable solution.

This solution is scalable. Our customers are large, enterprise-level companies with more than 500 or 1,000 users.

Nutanix has very good technical support.

The initial setup is straightforward.

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

Nutanix Prism is a good solution and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We mainly use Nutanix Prism for storage.

The programs is very functional in case of a failure, because snapshots are taken every 30 minutes, and we also have synchronization between our two data centers. So whenever  we have a failure, we have another data center that is responds for every machine we have.

The features I find most valuable, is the integration between data centers.

Perhaps the interface can be more intuitive. It's easy, but it is very slow at the beginning. 

I am very satisfied with the technical support.

We've had no issues with the setup and installation. In terms of time, it was very fast. In terms of testing, it was very slow, but when everything had been verified and updated, the latest patches and everything, the program was working great. 

The deployment took about one month, and it was done by Nutanix people provided by Dell. We are satisfied with their work and we have an annual review of both systems. 

On a scale of one to ten, I will rate this solution an eight. What I'd like to see in the next release, is for it to be open to other platforms. That would be great, because now it's only available on Mac, IBM and Dell. Perhaps wide-open hardware would be great.

In the past we used to get alarms and an detector. Sometimes the messages you get from a problem doesn't point directly to the origin of the problem. So you have to elaborate some things for having a conclusion on what is failing. Perhaps they can improve this entire process, from beginning to the end, where you find a solution. In other words, being able to make the right decision faster.

I mainly use Prism to host virtual machines.

Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation.

The process of converting and importing virtual machines to the Nutanix environment is quite complicated. The interface could also be improved, and there's an issue that some features can't be managed from Prism Central, meaning you have to switch to Prism Element.

Prism is stable.

Prism is scalable.

Nutanix's technical support is really good and responsive.

The initial setup was quite straightforward, and deployment took less than two days.

We used a vendor team.

Prism is cheaper compared to competitors like Cisco HyperFlex or HP vSAN.

I'd advise anybody thinking of buying Prism to consider buying their hardware and software from Nutanix to ensure compatibility and benefit from their one-click upgrade feature. Prism is an impeccable solution, and I would rate it nine out of ten.

We have a data center and provide licenses to our customers. Our company uses this solution on private cloud and our customers generally use it on-prem. We are partners and resellers of Nutanix and I'm a systems engineer.

I like the simplicity of use and the ability to have a single point to match things.

We've been waiting a long time for micro application using a company's provider, that would be a good improvement. The cost of the solution is quite high and I'd like to see that lowered. 

I've been using this solution for six years. 

I think the technical support of Nutanix is one of the best supports I have used.

The initial setup is straightforward and takes about an hour. 

In addition to the standard licensing fees there are extra costs for some functionalities such as capacity planning using Prism Pro.

I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10. 

I visited PeerSpot to look for a comparison between Nutanix and VxRail prices. I am already working with Nutanix and wanted to get more information.

Nutanix Prism, being a native part of the Nutanix solution, does not require external hardware installation, making it easier for management. It also includes Prism Central, which allows for management of multiple clusters efficiently.

The life cycle management and upgrade capabilities are very useful. The GUI is user-friendly. The VM creation task is simple, and Nutanix AHV, the hypervisor, is straightforward.

There is a need for more migration tools, especially for migrating a solution from non-Nutanix environments to a Nutanix environment, particularly for systems with shared disks.

The technical support for hardware and software is satisfactory.

Positive

The time savings are significant since the delivery is quick. Having both hardware and software support from a single vendor streamlines the process.

The pricing is reasonable, approximately $400 to $500 per core.

I was looking for a comparison between Nutanix and VxRail prices.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.