Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

We operate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for production purposes, but we are about to migrate to another solution, which is open source for us and has a lesser licensing cost compared with the NKP, because NKP requires a little bit of OpenStack license, which cannot be used as a core-based license for us. This kind of flexibility towards any kind of reuses is why management is planning to migrate, since it involves a host-based license and has become quite costly for us.

We use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) as Nutanix Object, but this has been free, because with Nutanix NCI, there is one 1 TB object storage that is free, so for now, we are using that 1 TB object storage.

I have been working with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects for around six months only, as we are just using it for testing purposes.

We use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects for BRP purposes, which means there are some use cases where WORM capability is required for a database. Multiple nodes can write to one particular object storage, meaning one point of storage, through which we can use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Object Storage for multiple nodes. For example, we are using MongoDB, which connects to this particular storage only.

My primary objective with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects is to use it for a multi-writing purpose, as we can write from multiple nodes to one specific object. This happens at a clustering level, but that cluster will not allow us to create a particular object point that facilitates writing in a multiple node way. That is why we require this for multi-writing purposes, which we have currently for UAT, and it was resolved successfully using the objects.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is NVMe storage for us, as we have already purchased one NVMe storage with the NKP and NCI licensing. All nodes are using the NVMe, so performance-wise, this is quite better than others.

In my opinion, the main benefits that Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) provides for us, maybe for our company, are based on its performance. My Nutanix platform is built on NVMe, and performance-wise, it is quite better than any other storage option. This is beneficial as our cloud environment incurs its own cost, but this object storage we are using on a free license basis, which means I do not require any cost on that right now, making it quite advantageous for me, and the performance remains good.

Functionality-wise, we have improved a lot using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), as previously we faced significant latency and other related issues.

When talking about potential areas of improvement for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), I feel that the price could be lower. A fixed price of one crore is standard for any server, whether from Nutanix, VMware, or any other solution. As we operate in a financial institution, we require additional support, so we might avoid open-source options, which presents a challenge.

I do not think any further improvements are required for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects at the moment; currently, the product is quite good compared to market standards. There have been discussions regarding AI/ML capabilities, but right now, there is not much improvement needed in my environment for those features.

I do not really see the need for additional functions in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects, as we only require WORM capability and normal operations from that object storage, which satisfactorily meets our needs.

I acknowledge that the price of the product can be too high, and it would be beneficial if pricing were more flexible for end users.

I have been working with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects for around six months only, as we are just using it for testing purposes.

I would rate the stability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) at 10 out of 10; if the hardware was not capable, that would be an issue, but from a software perspective, it is quite stable for me.

For scalability regarding Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), it depends on the license; we only have 1 TB, and extending those capabilities relies solely on the license we have available to use.

For technical support, I would rate them an 8; they are quite supportive, but getting a specific technical person on a call is quite challenging, often requiring about four hours to reach someone knowledgeable. The initial support engineer tends to take logs and then provides answers later. Currently, there are challenges with the technical team.

I confirm this, as it was taken over by the Nutanix team from D2iQ, resulting in challenges in transferring the technical documentation. Over the past year, there were many glitches in the support aspect, but improvements have been noted since then, and the team has successfully resolved previously encountered engineering challenges.

Nowadays, the situation is indeed much better than it was a year ago.

The initial setup for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is a simple process for me.

We managed the setup in-house with our team without requiring consultants or integrators for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) setup. The only part that involved a license, and the documentation was quite easy to implement, so we followed the document and successfully implemented it.

The full setup for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) was quite simple; we only needed to make one call and within two hours, we had it deployed. Although two hours seemed long, port opening was a bit challenging, but after that, everything went successfully.

We managed the setup in-house with our team without requiring consultants or integrators for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) setup. The only part that involved a license, and the documentation was quite easy to implement, so we followed the document and successfully implemented it.

When comparing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects, I have not encountered many competitors in this space. Hitachi is a notable competitor, as they provide good technology related to object storage, and we are exploring those options as well. VMware is another option, but we are phasing out our interactions with them, especially since they offer their own licenses, which we prefer to avoid.

I do not have much concern about the cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Objects, because we are using those at a lower level. My front-end operation is quite different, accessing that particular point after six or seven nodes, meaning six or seven hops, so after these hops we reach those file objects, which is not a concern for me right now as it is connecting via wire.

Regarding Data Lens, I have not used it yet; I have heard of it but I am not using anything related to it.

License considerations for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are my first concern, as right now management lacks the capability or interest to invest any further in IT equipment. They are trying to avoid high-priced servers due to their recent double price jump—in previous times, a server cost around 50 lakhs, but now it is close to 1 crore rupees, so they are not looking to buy such high-maintenance, expensive servers right now.

We purchased Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) solution directly from Nutanix; we have some third-party vendors, meaning channel partners through which we have implemented the solution. We received quite good technical support from both Nutanix and third-party channel people, and they have been quite supportive with considerable technical knowledge. Initially, we sought their help when issues arose, moving to the engineering team if they could not resolve them. They are quite responsive, with the support team resolving issues directly on the first call or raising cases as needed for technical support.

I rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) at 10 out of 10 overall, with no challenges noted.

We use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for storing the profile and related data for all of our end-user computing VDI sessions like their FSLogix profile and O365 data.

Prior to having NUS and Nutanix Files, we were hosting profiles on some older Dell Isilons. Due to their age, they were using hybrid storage, so we had some old-style spinning disks in addition to all-flash, which create a performance bottleneck. Nutanix's platform and the NX hardware that was purchased with it allowed us to move profiles to an all-flash solution. We're also able to utilize a 25 gigabit per second transfer speed, as opposed to the 10 gigabit per second maximum for the Dell Isilons.

The biggest advantage we find with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is the performance due to it being hyper-converged while using all-flash nodes. The storage is very responsive and it's easy to manage from the Nutanix Files platform that comes with NUS Pro. 

We appreciate the cybersecurity and ransomware protection features that are built in. We appreciate that it's included and that they maintain a regular digest of file extensions and behaviors to analyze data for malicious intrusion.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) sits in a good place for us. The biggest improvement would be to make it more cost-effective from a storage node and storage perspective, so that the solution isn't so cost-prohibitive versus other vendors.

We have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for pretty much the life of our Nutanix, which we installed roughly about two years ago.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable. With Isilon, we encountered issues with some profile disks not detaching when people would sign off. Sometimes we would have to use the CLI or command line to tell the system to disconnect those disks so they would be ready to be presented to another virtual session. We have not experienced these issues with Nutanix, which I attribute to the all-flash technology, the quality of their platform, and the responsiveness of the hyper-converged infrastructure.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) would scale very easily, simply from the ability to buy storage-focused nodes, as opposed to having to buy full-on compute and storage nodes. We would be able to scale very easily if the need arose.

Nutanix support is built from an administrator's perspective first. Anytime we see a problem in Prism Central, we can click on that alert or problem, and we can see a linked KB that tells us exactly what that problem is and how to resolve it. If we don't feel comfortable resolving it, or we feel we can't, we can raise a ticket or escalate with them very quickly. In our experience, they've been very responsive.

Nutanix support deserves a rating of nine out of ten. Nutanix should continue pioneering its current approaches, allowing administrators to self-service while maintaining quick access to support when necessary.

Positive

We were using older Isilon systems that were on hybrid storage.

With Nutanix Files, we have to use Nutanix's own management console snap-in to perform some management features with Nutanix Files. It's not as easy as just clicking on Windows File Explorer and doing what you need to do. It was just a process change for us, but I wouldn't call it a drawback.

While I cannot provide a specific dollar figure for return on investment from Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we've seen a perceived return in terms of time. As administrators, we are able to focus on other issues. The business has gained more of our time to focus on other areas, saving approximately 2 - 5 hours per week.

I was not involved in much of the pricing, setup costs, and licensing. In the manufacturing industry, we operate under very lean principles where costs are heavily scrutinized. There was some initial hesitation, but the performance we've experienced since switching to the Nutanix platform, along with the peace of mind from having confidence in our platform to not cause issues that keep us up at night, has smoothed over much of that scrutiny.

Right now, we have Dell Isilon, and we are in a migration process to move that from Dell Isilon to Nasuni. Nutanix NUS Pro was definitely in the running, but it was just ultimately a decision by the business to not do any more capital expenditures on hardware.

For the specific use case of user profiles, we decided to leverage Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). However, for our main file storage conversion, we considered newer versions of Dell Isilon, more Nutanix nodes, and Nasuni, with Nasuni being our ultimate selection. The benefit with Dell would have been the technology advantages of quickly seeding the new Isilon with the old Isilon data without any conversions. 

For Nutanix, if we had gone with more NUS nodes, we would have gotten the Data Lens product, providing a fuller view of unstructured data and a more comprehensive library of malicious and intrusion signatures. Nasuni distinguished itself by not requiring additional hardware to implement its product since it is a virtual appliance that tiers off into the cloud. The absence of capital expenditures for additional hardware, which would have been required for Dell and Nutanix, ultimately led us to choose Nasuni.

We are not currently running any AI/ML workloads as we're part of the manufacturing industry, which tends to be slower in adopting new and emerging technologies. The driver for AI adoption would likely come from our engineering group and not IT. 

I would advise companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to thoroughly understand their business needs before making the transition. Moving to Nutanix and its price point required us to deeply understand our business requirements. The platform is built to accommodate both current and future feature needs, with continuous evolution to address emerging requirements. 

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) a nine out of ten, considering the scalability, performance, and ease of use with the Nutanix Files console.

I'm using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for hybrid cloud storage, specifically for backup and cyber storage, video surveillance, and other purposes related to this software-defined platform.

The best features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are its simplified management, scale, and performance. Data services can be easily consolidated, which help in disaster recovery services, replication, and reducing complexity and costs associated with this architecture. 

High throughput and low latency are of high significance for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) in AI/ML and data analytics, providing exceptional interference batch files that meet the high performance computing storage requirements.

Areas for improvement in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) include enhancing AI features, providing certifications for Nutanix AI, and improving weekend support responsiveness.

They can update their platform by integrating more AI and machine learning capabilities.

They can also improve their training and certification programs. These programs should not only be for their employees but also for the vendors they support or the individuals working with their technologies. By enhancing their offerings, they could provide even greater benefits. Additionally, there should be certifications for Nutanix AI. 

Furthermore, their support on weekends should be improved. For tickets submitted during the week, their response times could be better. It would be beneficial if they could enhance their support services to provide assistance over the weekends as well.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for more than a year.

I would rate the stability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) at a nine, as it's very stable, although manual interventions are sometimes necessary if a host or data store goes down. While the stability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is good, the need for manual intervention can be a drawback. The system does provide alerts, which allows us to respond and address the issues. Overall, it works well, but this manual aspect is something to consider.

With VMware, when a virtual machine (VM) experiences an issue, all the servers and other components typically migrate to another host. However, if any storage goes down, we must handle the situation manually.

I find the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be excellent, and I would rate it a ten based on my clients' requirements. We have multiple clients using Nutanix. Our clients are enterprise businesses.

We have about 2,000 Nutanix experts in our organization. There are many people with good hands-on experience in it. I've been using Nutanix for over five years myself. In my previous company, I used it for migration and server management, as well as for unified storage management.

They offer quick and effective support without prioritizing ticket severity, focusing on providing solutions as fast as possible. 

I would rate the technical support for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) an eight out of ten, as they are quick and responsive during weekdays, but weekend support may require manual outreach. The support availability can be improved on weekends.

Positive

It's relatively easy to deploy in the environment. It's not as complex as VMware, but it still requires some effort. 

The deployment time depends on the architecture of the client's environment. We typically work with different architectures for QA, development, and production environments. The time frame largely depends on the client's approval process. While it doesn't take much time to complete the deployment and migration, the complexity of the client's infrastructure can add to the duration. For example, in my last company, we did a complete migration from VMware to Nutanix which took approximately three to four months because it was a large environment. We had multiple projects, which added complexity regarding applications and business dependencies, so we needed to handle things one step at a time for all the storage systems.

If it's a smaller environment, then it can usually be completed in a month. We can efficiently migrate everything, but larger environments definitely take more time as we need to manage business and client approvals and determine acceptable downtime.

In terms of maintenance, Nutanix regularly releases patches and updates. They provide support for these as well. We have team members experienced in patching and updating. Whenever a new version is released, they inform us about supported versions and any changes. Nutanix consistently updates their environment, which is very helpful.

I estimate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has saved us 30% to 35% in total cost of ownership. I believe Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) results in a budget-wise cost efficiency of about 25% to 30%, although I'm not directly involved in the financial aspects.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) helps reduce the total cost of ownership by efficiently managing data and snapshots, allowing for continuous monthly cleanups, generating capacity reports, and helping identify unused resources, leading to approximately 15% to 20% reduction in data price consumption. Additionally, we are able to identify unused services, especially when we restore them, which enables us to clear out unnecessary data. Overall, this approach is very effective for us in terms of cost management.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is cost-efficient, providing multiple features in a single purchase, unlike VMware, which requires multiple licenses and charges for different components.

I would recommend Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) due to its user-friendly environment and cost-effectiveness, as it provides a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, and compute on a single platform with timely upgrades and useful KB articles.

Overall, I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) at a ten due to its effectiveness and ease of implementation, achieving results that are effective 99% of the time.

A lot of our documents are ingested through Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and since we're a financial institution, we're receiving a lot of PII, PCI, and looking for data protection along with a lot of financial documents that are rolling through pretty frequently. We also have a lot of VDI profiles that are hosted or linked to NUS right now, making it a really great solution for us. We have to have our compute and the data has to be right there.

The overall management interface of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has been very comprehensive, giving us a very easy overview into our environment. 

We love the scalability features of NUS and the ability to not have an all-in-one storage package where you drop money on something, and that's what it's going to be. 

The availability of the environment is incredible, and with Prism Central, you're able to diagnose and go over issues quickly. If you don't know what's going on, you can contact Nutanix support if you have an agreement, as we do, and their specialists will help you quickly.

I appreciate Nutanix is taking the steps towards data isolation and protection features and enhancing them for public and private sectors. They're really trying to treat their environments as an all-encompassing environment on the security side of things as well and not just focused on the, for NUS, the storage side.

A more consistent flow of information would improve the solution, as I've noticed some inconsistencies, mostly stemming from the coordination between the hardware vendor and Nutanix. 

I've encountered issues while doing manual firmware upgrades on all of our nodes, trying to locate the specific ISO image to upload through the HPE iLOs. Sometimes I've received mixed information on which one to utilize, causing a roadblock. When working within a change window and a maintenance window overnight, I need to get this done immediately and have someone online. Narrowing that down and getting it on the first try would be great.

We have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for about two and a half years now, deploying back in 2022 after we had a lot of success with Nutanix Compute clusters.

I haven't encountered a time where we've had a file share or a file server go down with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), which is very impressive. Prism Central is also very comprehensive in providing those critical alerts, warning alarms, or informational alerts if there's something that can improve in the environment. 

It's able to mention if something could be done better without currently causing an impact. The replication across our NUS clusters has been fantastic; we've had no issues there, and exploring data protection and recovery policies that you can implement in the environment has been very impressive. 

Therefore, I would rate that very high in my book as we've run into little to no issues, and when we do, they resolve very quickly with Nutanix support if needed.

The scalability benefits of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are impressive as you're not sitting on pins and needles wondering when that project's going to be dropped, and when somebody says we need more storage. You have the ability to add additional nodes to that same cluster and just expand on it. This creates a lot of breathing room for our entire team in my department because we're taken care of in that regard, making this feature big for us.

I would rate Nutanix's support for our organization a nine out of ten, placing it pretty high. I have not had many bad experiences, if any, with the support given by Nutanix. 

The cost efficiency is fantastic in terms of scalability, and they're very experienced. Anytime I've had an issue or a critical error with NUS, there's always an engineer available within two hours or, if I call with a case number reference, they've been on the phone with me in less than 30 minutes, which is impressive. 

They always follow up on cases, providing us with case notes, which I really enjoy. If there's something I don't understand as an administrator, they inform me about the issue, how they resolved it, and the commands they ran. This empowers us as administrators, allowing us to resolve issues on our own without waiting for support, making their assistance fantastic.

Positive

We did use a different competitor in the storage solution space. However, Nutanix is thinking ten years out, considering AI and mitigating risks. They aren't just looking at the present.

I was not involved of the initial deployment. I have moved around nodes and physical servers. It was likely a two-week process to get the hardware and everything set up, however, it was pretty plug and play. 

The migration takes a little while. That's the more difficult process, however, it still wasn't a tall order. 

We have seen savings in overhead management and manpower. Operationally, it's led to cost savings and cost efficiency and budget as a team. 

We're also increasing efficiency in that we're not seeing latency.

The setup costs and pricing are not within my scope. However, it is very scalable. When looking to create space, you're looking at a lot of risks with very little reward. The funding of a whole other project on a whole other storage solution. The scalability is going to reduce cost even if, upfront, you're looking at a large sum of money. You'll really have a return on investment if you run into roadblocks of running out of storage in the future. With Nutanix, we just scale up, expand and add nodes to it. It's cost-efficient for us.

I would advise other companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to first examine the landscape of their industry, understanding what kind of data they have, the connections to that data, and what currently supports or houses that data. 

We're just looking into AI right now. We're emerging into that technology. We're not there yet. I would also recommend looking at the AI and security landscape since, for financial institutions, a lot of our business is dependent on our reputation, not just on how secure we are, but also on the audits we go through. Thus, how secure STVC is in managing storage solutions is crucial for us, and that's where Nutanix really came into play as they help with security compliance, ensuring availability and securing all data flowing through those clusters. 

We're not currently utilizing the Data Lens feature. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

We use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for our Oracle workloads, providing storage to Oracle using NUS.

We are using it for the data-intensive workload, and I feel that the performance is better than the previous external solution we had. We initially had some challenges with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). Those issues were mainly because of the way our solution was deployed. We worked with Nutanix support to fix them.

What I appreciate most about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is how easy it is to use and how simple it is to create new volumes and containers, and it's pretty quick. Whenever we get a request from our Oracle team for a new disk, it takes minutes to get it done. Our company, before we had Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), was using Vblock and external storage. Using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), I've noticed that the workload is faster and the team is happier; they're not complaining about storage being slow. That's the biggest improvement I'm seeing.

We couldn't access Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) from Prism Central due to bugs. The bugs that Nutanix fixed in newer versions prevented us from accessing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) from Prism Central. There's always a solution where we can use Prism Element to access it. Improvement-wise, Nutanix should work on avoiding bugs and fixing them faster for clients. As we rely on Prism Central for many workflows, access issues are problematic. That particular issue took four or five months to get fixed due to the slow response from Nutanix. Other than that, I'm satisfied with the performance, and our Oracle team is also happy with how it's performing. I'm not seeing many complaints from them about our storage side, which is a good sign. When I'm not interacting with it every day, that means it's working as intended.

Additionally, Nutanix could enhance its knowledge base with more articles relevant to Oracle. There is a lot of content available for SQL, but not as much for Oracle-related queries. Increasing the number of knowledge base articles on Oracle would be beneficial because when facing issues, I often don't find much Oracle-related content.

I've been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the past one year.

So far, I haven't heard about anything being wrong. The platform is super reliable and stable. There hasn't been any issue on the Nutanix front. We have three technologies coming together to provide what the team needs. The issues that I usually see are related to other technologies. With Nutanix, we are pretty happy.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is definitely able to scale with the growing needs of our company. The way the licensing works, scaling is super easy.

I've communicated multiple times to potential Nutanix customers that Nutanix support is the best in the market. I usually rate support ten out of ten unless there's a specific issue. About 90% of my tickets receive a ten rating because they've always been on top of their tickets. There hasn't been a day when I opened an issue and someone hasn't contacted me within 30 minutes. Sometimes, it takes longer to fix issues due to their complexity, such as the bug we encountered for logging into NUS through Prism Central, which took three to four months to resolve, but most of the time, they handle our issues very effectively.

Positive

Our company, before we had Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), was using Vblock and external storage.

We had some challenges initially, but their support was very good. Nutanix provides the best support in the market. When we got stuck during deployment, within 30 minutes, I had somebody on a Zoom call giving a solution.

We had minor challenges during deployment, but they were taken care of quickly. It didn't take us days. It took us hours to fix the issues.

We set up Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) ourselves as we are capable engineers.

The biggest return on investment when using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is simplicity and performance. We implemented this solution because we were having numerous tickets and concerns from our Oracle team related to their daily performance. As a team, we're getting maybe 10% of what we used to get, which is already a win for us. As a small team, we don't want to deal with issues that technology can solve.

I don't deal with pricing. Licensing-wise, I have no complaints. Their license is pretty simple and easy. It gives us everything we need, so I have no complaints about licensing.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) will help reduce our total cost of ownership as we move from VMware. We currently pay for VMware licensing and NUS Pro licensing, and if we eliminate VMware, we won't need to change anything with NUS, and everything will function the same way. It's definitely going to save us money. I know our renewal is going to save us at least $20,000 a year, which is a decent amount. I don't know percentage-wise how much we're paying or what the Nutanix cost is.

We considered Dell PowerFlex, but the pricing didn't work out for us. Nutanix provided better pricing than Dell, which is why we chose them.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) an eight out of ten. The perfect version would involve fewer bugs, as that has been a significant issue for us. While that hasn't prevented our workflow entirely, as we managed to use Prism Element, it would help if they kept improving to eliminate any GUI-related bugs.

It's mostly for object storage for a backup solution. The other use case is that it's our primary file server now. We use it for central storage for all primary documents within the enterprise.

Users are able to access the files during upgrades with Nutanix Unified Storage. Everything is accessible faster than the old EMC NAS ever could manage. We never hear from the users because it just works. That's the beauty of it. With it, there is at least a 60% increase in performance.

We have found that Nutanix Unified Storage has blocked several things we didn't know existed in the environment. That has been a really nice secondary, tertiary level of protection. It's been beneficial to have that feature set natively built-in. It gives the security team confidence that the data is protected from ransomware attacks.

The effectiveness of the deduplication feature of Nutanix Unified Storage for our needs is about 15%.

We appreciate how Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) performs very well. We appreciate being able to have the duplication of the data to a secondary location.

Users never have a problem. They can also do a bit of self-service. They can do their own previous version restores. We never get calls about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), which is beneficial. The users don't have problems, so they don't need to contact us.

It functions as intended. We don't have any real requests or improvements. We're primarily focused on protecting our data. However, we use Varonis, so it would be nice to have better integration with that.

We've been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for a little over six years.

The only time we've ever had any downtime was when the object got deleted from Active Directory. Otherwise, it's always been up. We've never had a problem with it.

I would say Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable with uptime of probably 99.9%.

Nutanix Unified Storage scales very well. We can add another node into the cluster and the data footprint grows with it. Users never know about it as it's all seamless. We have about 128 terabytes of data.

We experience probably a 1% to 2% increase year over year with Nutanix Unified Storage. It doesn't grow by exponential amounts, but as we've been collapsing some remote sites and bringing things back, that's how our footprint really grows.

They're always very responsive. They always come up with answers quickly for us when we have issues.

We were previously using SAN and it was just old aging hardware. We were already a Nutanix customer using it for hyper-converged infrastructure. We decided to look at Nutanix's solution since we were already managing their platform.

It was very simple. We deployed it like a regular Nutanix cluster. The hardest part was just migrating the data and getting users migrated over there. That's probably the longest piece of it, but that goes with data.

It was completed within a couple of hours. We had the VMs and the setup of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and it worked perfectly. It was really easy.

We had someone who was proficient with scripting who was able to mirror the data for us.

It was definitely less expensive than buying a new EMC array for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). We bought a five-year commitment on all the hardware and software. As our data footprint grows, we just buy more. It has definitely been more cost-effective. We maintain 30 days worth of storage requirement.

It's definitely a lot cheaper than buying a new EMC array. We bought a five-year commitment on all the hardware and software.  I don't know what the cost was back then, but I do remember it was cheaper. The DR piece is all baked into it as well. It's nice as our data footprint grows, we just buy more.

We looked at EMC and two or three other solutions at the time. We went for Nutanix because of the ease of use, hyper-converged technology, and familiarity with it because we were already running Nutanix as a platform, so just getting rid of the traditional storage management pieces of it was a benefit. Our team can manage it.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage a ten out of ten.

My main use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) basically revolve around unified storage, as we had a situation where data was spread out across several storage platforms, and we wanted something to give us a single pane of glass that was all from one vendor and one vendor infrastructure.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped my company by being beneficial in terms of time saving, as we can manage all our data under one roof without having several systems where data is spread across, allowing us to back up a certain subset of data and maintain it with other backups, ensuring we don't have to do a bunch of searching to find out where everything is or where everything lives across all the different storage platforms, which is really nice.

What I find most valuable about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is definitely the manageability from one platform.

On databases, IOPS, read-writes, transaction logs are critical, and storing and organizing those log files and databases, as well as transaction throughput for ERP, is essential. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped us overcome a couple of Oracle-based challenges that we've had with IOPS and read and latency, providing hands-up visibility and insight into our data with graphs and charts, which allow us to know exactly how much data is flowing over the wires.

The cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, provide the ability to detect and back up block-based storage, allowing me to restore repositories or sets of block storage with one button click, which is automatic. It really helps when a user has encrypted data from ransomware, as we can click a button and restore that data to a previous snapshot, which is great.

I haven't dug deep enough into Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to know where improvements are needed yet, so from an improvement standpoint, it has done everything we've thrown at it so far.

Instead of looking at it as an improvement, what's missing is not clear at the moment. There is direct integration with Pure Storage, but it's hard to say what needs improvement.

Regarding Nutanix Files, I remember they sold an appliance solely that handled file-based expansion for clusters, which raises questions about why they sold that appliance versus all the other integration partners they're compatible with. The initial features and integration with Pure Storage are impressive. The ability to plug and play with any storage solution is incredible and allows us to utilize viable storage without spending millions on Cadillac storage providers for larger flash-based arrays.

In summary for improvements, I would say stay on the integration path, keep those integrations heavy, and let us use the software and technologies with everybody.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for about a year, a little over a year now, since we did all of our licensing last April and started utilizing the entire Acropolis hypervisor, so it's been around 13 to 14 months.

I have yet to have a problem with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) where data was unavailable or we were in a down state; I would say we have 99 to 100% reliability in uptime.

On the scalability tip, adding storage is as easy as expanding, and you can add as much storage as you can pay for, so there haven't been any issues in scaling, and we haven't reached a scale cap yet.

Customer service and technical support for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is great, as during business hours, every ticket I've submitted has received a reply within an hour, often through a call back or online session to help rectify any issues.

I would rate customer service and technical support an eight.

Positive

Since I've been with the organization, we've always been a primary Nutanix shop for our hypervisor, but for storage solutions, we've previously had EMC, several PowerScale appliances, and Seagate appliances in the flash storage side. Now, we try to bring everything in-house, getting a cluster with a lot of space and using all the hyper-converged storage on that cluster to minimize moving parts and points of failure.

I haven't had any major problems with pricing or setup for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS); everything was pretty easy from this plug and play perspective, and any problems I've had, I've always been able to hop on support and get a response within a 48-hour window. So, I don't find any issues with pricing or setup.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has definitely helped reduce our total cost of ownership, as centralizing that storage allowed us to eliminate all the other players we had on our premises and NASes, bringing everything under one roof.

If I had to guess, I would say we've reduced overall costs by approximately 35 to 40%, due to the various mileage agreements some other appliances had that we had to adhere to.

The biggest return on investment for me when using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has been time. Before we had to dig into numerous systems, leading to fragmented files scattered everywhere, but now everything is under one roof, in one place, and hands-up displays everything, which means I no longer have to worry about anything.

I would estimate the reduction of time or increase in efficiency is about 40% to 45%.

We did consider other solutions before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and we wanted a solution that the vendor supported, that was directly integrated with our hypervisor.

We looked at storage solutions from Quantum Store, from Veam, and almost every vendor in some capacity to integrate with Nutanix, but we found Nutanix solution was easy to get the licensing set up and install, and they supported it.

We are deployed on-prem.

My experience using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads, such as AI and ML in a hybrid cloud environment, is that we are actually looking at the Nutanix MC2 licensing to get a DR site spun up and run off a hybrid model, so I can't really speak to what that does for us now, but it is a solution we are considering to increase our DR footprint.

I am not using the Data Lens high cost feature of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) currently, but I actually just sent a message to my systems engineer about Data Lens to see what kind of feature sets we can use there to enhance how we handle storage today.

I found that the auditing features stood out to me, and they mentioned something about being able to integrate with our SOC SIM, which I definitely want to dive into to see how that integrates and what data they can offer our SIM, which will be useful for detecting advanced or basic attacks.

There is an occasional language barrier between some of the technicians, which can be challenging; however, that doesn't prevent us from being assisted, as they can remote in and use Pulse to view our cluster and gather logs and reports. It's more about my desire to understand deeply what's being done, modified, or changed so I know how to rectify issues myself in the future.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) an eight or nine out of ten.

Our main use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) include using it as a backup repository. 

We began to use NUS, historically known as Nutanix Files, as storage for backing up all the information from our Citrix profiles. We decided to use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the repository of our backup. 

We aim to improve our backup solution, and while we don't have all the results yet, we are implementing the solutions and expecting more from the integration between the nodes of Nutanix that process all the requests from the backup.

The most valuable feature of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for us is how it manages the requests from thousands of users we are hosting on our solution. I'm not sure of the name of the feature, however, the network storage we're using right now is very good.

The velocity and performance have been good. We typically struggled with slowness. Our previous storage solution named StorSimple, a Microsoft-based cloud solution, and after migrating to Nutanix Files, we see an improvement in velocity and performance.

Instead of using third-party storage repositories, we're working to integrate with Nutanix. 

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) needs improvement in compatibility with Windows solutions. Right now, we need to put it on Linus to use it effectively. As a Microsoft-heavy customer, it's important to work with Windows applications and infrastructure, and there are currently no solutions from Nutanix for that.

I've been using Nutanix Files for three years now.

I assess the stability and reliability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) as pretty stable since we haven't experienced a major incident since our first deployment.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) scales with the growing needs of our organization. It's easy; we just need to buy another physical node, and we can integrate it into the existing cluster.

I evaluate Nutanix's support services as very good; it's easy to access support, and the representatives who contact you usually have all the solutions ready and are very skillful. On a scale of one to ten, I rate their support as a nine. There's always room for improvement.

Positive

We used a cloud solution from Microsoft - StorSimple. We struggled with it being too slow. We migrated over to Nutanix and saw an immediate improvement on the performance. 

The deployment was very easy. We already had all the Nutanix nodes in the data center. We received the licensing and put it to work. 

We don't have that study yet on return on investments. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped reduce our total cost of ownership. 

We've reduced TCO. The move to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is profitable for us. In the past, we used to buy solutions from third parties, and now, with our large install base, the discounts we receive are very beneficial for us. We are saving approximately 20% to 25% compared with the competition.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is favorable. We are already involved in all the licensing features, and platinum solutions. It's a marginal cost to access these features is very reasonable.

Before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we considered solutions from Pure Storage, Dell Isilon, and also a traditional solution from Azure called Azure Files. What stood out positively in our evaluation of these products was Nutanix's more profitable pricing, and right now, we appreciate the performance we are experiencing.

Our impression of the cybersecurity features of Nutanix when dealing with unstructured data such as threats or malware is minimal since we don't use it for unstructured data repositories; we usually use it for a database. We're not using structured data yet, however, we are trying to do so; we have a license available for a proof of concept. We haven't started that yet. 

My advice for other companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that every company has their own needs, however, they should try the solution, compare it, and then make the best decision for their situation. 

I rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) nine out of ten.