Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Reviews

The main use case for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is for storage.

The features I appreciate the most about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are the compatibility with the market. My clients express satisfaction with the environment and the product. 

The efficiency and the product are very good. It's a fast product with no latency. The facility to use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) benefits our company greatly, as both ourselves and the end client find it to be a wonderful product.

My experience with using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads in a hybrid cloud environment is limited as I don't have a hybrid environment. For massive storage, this process is normal. All storage has some latency; when changing from old storage to new storage, you have this little latency, however, it's fast, though I really can't compare with another product.

My impression of the cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data such as ransomware threats is good. I normally use additional prevention software and backup services to protect data from loss or ransomware threats to avoid any future problems.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) helps my clients reduce their total cost of ownership as it's a good product for this; the zero-cost licensing is a great part. The customer appreciates that it's zero cost, and in reality, it's really good.

I do not know if Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) can potentially reduce in costs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) itself is satisfactory; I don't have any comments about improvements. 

There is potential to push this product more since it's not common in the market. They could increase their marketing efforts. 

I have been using or have experience with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for maybe a half year or one year ago.

The stability and reliability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are very good. We do not have the necessity to increase the product, but I see the performance is satisfactory.

I do not know at the moment how Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) scales with the growing needs of a company. All my clients have this product just for file server or similar purposes, and we do not need to scale this part.

Customer service and technical support are great. We work with the partnership here with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). We always have good attention, and when I raise a ticket or just a question, I get a quick answer. I would give the customer service and technical support a ten out of ten.

I work with other solutions such as the Acropolis or the hypervisor, and this part is more for trying to migrate to VMware Nutanix and trying to improve the Supermicro servers.

I can't fully assess the return on investment when using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) from a technician perspective. I can confirm there is a good impact for the investment and total cost.

The pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are amazing, in my view.

There are some differences between VMware and Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS); the principal idea of the VMs or stretches is similar, but we can do other things. We can examine the different principles for licensing, and the prices are interesting; the compatibility with the hosts or devices is also interesting.

I am not using the Data Lens high-cost feature of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

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

My main use case for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is for files, specifically file analytics. We're looking to do file stores, either SMB or NFS shares.

We don't run any AI or ML workloads.

With File analytics, we have granular visibility. We are able to keep an eye and see the usage of users using File services. We can use File analytics to see which files are accessed more frequently, or if we have someone who's potentially exfiltrating files. We can see which files are being accessed, and if we did have some sort of data exfiltration going on, we would have the introspection to see that.

We transitioned from a three-tier architecture to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). With the Files offering out of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we were able to migrate those shares with a smaller footprint. We didn't have to create a bunch of Windows file servers and reset everything. We could just migrate our current environment, and that migration has been very nice for us. If we were doing it currently with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Files, the Move functionality is built in. Five years ago, I had to do scripting. There are certainly time savings with the Move feature. Using the scripting method that I worked on required finding the right times for particular groups and all the coordination. I needed to make sure everything was right.

Five years ago, the integration and the provisioning setup for NFS were not automatic. That has been improved greatly in the latest release or the 5.x releases. There have been many great improvements. 

Pain points are just in the management and understanding of how the functions work. As far as updating and day-to-day operations, if my staff is properly trained and we have those proper training sessions, we don't have that many issues. There can be more educational resources from their side.

I have been using or working with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for five years now.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable and very reliable, running multiple virtual machines or virtual appliances with unstructured files. It's very reliable.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) scales effectively with our growing needs. We just add to the cluster.

Customer support for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is top-notch. They're very knowledgeable.

Positive

Prior to adopting Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we were using another solution, specifically NetApp and a three-tier architecture.

It's an easy, quick process.

We had some training. Through Nutanix University, I have attended good learning sessions. We have partnered with Nutanix to have some education sessions, and Nutanix also throws great events.

For new users, the ROI would be in terms of time savings through the File analytics of how the data is being used, as well as with the migration aspect. If we were using a more current version of Move, those migration aspects would have taken less time. So, there could have been potential time savings for current users. 

I assume Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has helped reduce our total cost of ownership.

We considered other solutions, such as using Windows distributed file systems and file shares, and maybe looking into some other sort of NFS or SMB sharing.

The negative aspect of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) at the time of implementation was provisioning. That's something that's been greatly improved in the last five years. A positive aspect of comparing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to Microsoft would be that it has lower licensing costs.

The advice I would give to other companies considering Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is to make a good implementation plan and also ensure good communication with users, including file users and accounting users. 

My overall rating for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is a nine out of ten. Five years ago, it would have been at an eight, but today, I would rate it a nine since we don't use it for anything other than file shares.

The purpose of using the solution is for objects and object storage.

What I appreciate about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is that we have faced several issues in the Unified Storage. The compression and deduplication features have worked exceptionally well in the Unified Storage.

It has helped my business as it operates seamlessly without any interruption. The infrastructure is performing well, and we have not encountered any major issues. We have only faced bucket-related issues once or twice, which were resolvable. Apart from that, the infrastructure continues to perform effectively.

Improvement is needed regarding clarification to customers about storage capacity. While 100% storage is allocated, customers can only access 70 to 80% when examining deeply. There are some features that consume storage space, which should be addressed and avoided.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for around four years.

My experience with technical support has been challenging at times. It can be very difficult to connect with technical support. This might be due to resource constraints, though I am not certain about their internal operations at Nutanix.

Positive

I am not using the Data Lens high-cost feature. I think it is cheaper compared to VMware.

When comparing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to other solutions in the market, it is superior to other products. Being software-defined makes it better for reliability and seamless operation. It is also easy to use.

I assess the performance of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) with high throughput and low latency requirements as perfect. There is no production environment impact, and it works effectively.

I own a company and work as a reseller with a partner. My clients are small and medium enterprises. I am interested in being a reference for the vendor.

I serve as a technical consultant at Bank of India.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution an 8.

We are using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for file storage.

We also use NetApp storage and Synology storage in my current organization, but for the file server, we are using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). We can create a shared folder on Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and from that, we can provide access to the server. The access to that file storage shared folder is very good compared to other storage. The storage access speed is very fast for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

For AI and ML workloads, we are not using that yet because my senior team is working on those types of projects. They will make a decision on that. We just access the folder. We can take a user request and share it with our senior team. We are also using Prism Central for connecting to that virtual machine and storage.

The policy creation and the way we provide access to the user is very simple in the Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

We can share the NFS and SMB file shares. We can also connect the shared folders using iSCSI on the server. We can connect S3 compatible APIs on that Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

For implementing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we can provide the virtual machines. We have created the virtual machine. We have the volume, and we can share the volume through volume groups and all those features.

The best part is that we can use the volume groups there.

We need to work on reporting in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

Customizing reporting needs improvement.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for the last one and a half years.

It took months to deploy Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) in our organization because we have multiple data centers in my current organization. We need to take downtime, and then we need to move the machines from VMware to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). It takes a considerable amount of time.

I rate the stability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) an eight out of ten.

I rate the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) a nine out of ten because it is highly scalable.

Technical support is good, and I rate it eight out of ten.

For file server patching, we raise a ticket with support and they help us.

Positive

In six months, I completed all my training for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). I moved to another team, and I will start working on other projects also.

I still don't have higher-level access. We receive the first-phase user request and discuss it with our internal team. Then they make a decision and provide the details on how to provide access to users or how to connect the servers and shared disk.

I'm still reviewing the solution. I've only been using the storage for one and a half years and am still in the learning phase. When I open a support ticket with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), it is very easy, and documents are readily available. The only concern is that we don't have videos available on YouTube or anywhere else. We need to learn exclusively from the Nutanix sites and Nutanix University.

I will suggest Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to my friends because it is very easy to understand. Out-of-the-box, all features are available, including storage, networking, and other capabilities.

I'm still in the learning phase and have to go through all the points, which is why I'm giving it a rating of 9 out of 10. So far, it has been very good.

Our use case for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is basically for virtual machines, so all of the users' virtual machines are hosted on our Nutanix currently.

The best features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) include redundancy, and there are many more features, with NetApp being one of the best. What makes Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) stand out are the support and customization capabilities.

Areas for improvement in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) include more redundancy to ensure no data loss, and balancing the workloads is very important to maintain managed workloads throughout the year.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for around two point five, almost two point seven years now.

I rate the stability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) between nine to ten, as it remains stable throughout the year.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is scalable.

The technical support for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) deserves a rating of ten.

Positive

Currently, since it's on-prem right now, we have twenty plus users working with the solution.

In terms of time and resources savings with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), it saves about 50% for the cloud environment and 70 to 80% for on-prem since everything is manual.

The pricing of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) can be quite high for higher utilization scenarios, but it may become cost-efficient if we can bring more on-prem data into the cloud. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is cost-efficient when moving to the cloud, as it's in the hybrid model that it can either be cost-effective or not optimal as on-prem.

The performance of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is pretty much satisfactory, but I do not have much visibility on it since it is not just the storage that I've worked in. I am not using the Data Lens high-cost feature. There are a few technologies that we can incorporate with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to maintain high-quality data for storage, but I'm currently unable to recall them.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) requires maintenance, including scheduled hardware replacements in case of outages or drive failures. The system requires regular maintenance just any other system to ensure security and performance. The duration of maintenance depends on the data that the storage has.

I would recommend Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) because of its data redundancy and security features. I rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) nine point five to ten, as it's easy to manage, scalable, has great performance, and includes advanced features.

My use cases for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are storage, Hypervisor, and critical applications.

The feature I like most about Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is the ability to optimize storage spaces.

This capability has helped my company achieve cost reductions and price improvements.

I have reduced costs by approximately between 20 and 30 percent.

Regarding Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for low-latency or heavy workloads, it helps significantly in optimizing quantities and achieving better performance with lower response times.

The biggest return on investment when using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has been better response times for applications, which applies to latencies.

I think Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) can be improved with integration with vendors other than VMware or Dell, seeking more integrations with other storage vendors.

For Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be a ten, I would want more interoperability with other platforms.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for about one year.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is a stable platform and is top of the market.

Regarding scalability, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) can reach many petabytes of storage.

The technical and customer support service is good, as we haven't had many problems. I would give their technical service a nine.

Positive

I considered VMware before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

The installation experience of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has been easy, performed by technicians. I don't know how to do it myself, but I understand it has been a straightforward integration.

I have been able to lower prices using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), with cost optimization of nearly 30 percent compared to what we had before.

Regarding prices, installation, and licenses, I believe they are within market range, so it is not concerning. It is necessary for them to manage these costs.

We ultimately chose Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) because integrability with other platforms was key in our decision.

The integrability extends to platforms such as Dell and VMware to make it more open.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has connections with other platforms, but not with all, though it is more open and has many more use cases.

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

Our main use cases with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are specifically for unified storage and file shares.

We are not doing any AI or ML workloads at this time.

It removes a layer of aggregation to present storage to end users, so we do not have Windows file servers. This benefits our company by reducing one of our attack planes from a cybersecurity perspective, so we do not have to worry about the OS. 

It also simplifies the storage to ensure we are not allowing anyone to get a file share wherever they want it.

They can include some playbooks for storage deployment. There should be more automation. Going deeper, I would appreciate seeing out-of-the-box automation for storage provisioning and maybe some more customer-facing, web portal-type or API functionality to Jira or ServiceNow.

I have been using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) in this organization for about four months. Prior to that, I have used Nutanix Prism, not Unified Storage but the Prism series of products, for the past seven years or so.

We have had no issues whatsoever, and we have not had it go down.

From my understanding, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) scales fine with the growing needs of my company, which is theoretical because we have not had to scale up yet. We buy hardware and add it to the stack and keep going.

We have never had issues with technical support from Nutanix. Nutanix has the best customer support in town.

Positive

We were using Windows VMs. It was still Nutanix, but it was not Nutanix storage. 

From my point of view, the biggest return on investment when using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is probably the lack of downtime associated with Windows file servers.

We are going through that right now. It is competitive with other vendors, but you get more for your dollars. It is fairly priced, but not cheap. 

I have not analyzed the total cost of ownership reduction until now, as I have only been here for four months.

We did not consider any other solution before choosing Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), as we were already a Nutanix customer on our compute storage, and it was a natural progression.

I would rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) an eight out of ten. More automation could make it a ten, specifically out-of-the-box automation.

We use Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for file storage options like storage pools and file servers. Additionally, we utilize Veritas for a third-party backup solution. We have been using all Nutanix-related products.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is appreciated for its fault tolerance and redundancy at the cluster level, which ensures reliable storage of files, folders, and other information accessible on the client side. We utilize features like storage pool containers and file analytics tools for analyzing folder sizes. The functionality aligns with our management requirements.

Nutanix could improve the ability to track user actions, such as identifying who deleted a folder. Additionally, there is confusion regarding container size management; there should be an easier way to identify container sizes and associated storage usage. Nutanix should also consider archive-like functionalities similar to AWS and Azure for unused data, and allow quota assignment on subfolders.

I have been using Nutanix for around 10 to 15 years.

Performance-wise, Nutanix Unified Storage is good, but there are some issues with the security dashboard. It automatically triggers tasks, causing performance issues.

Nutanix needs to improve storage management similar to public cloud solutions like AWS and Azure for better scalability.

Nutanix technical support is excellent, with swift responses based on priority. I would rate it 10 out of 10.

Positive

We also use VMware, but for security and performance, I recommend Nutanix. It offers VM migration, automatic healing, resiliency, and security, making it a preferable option for critical VMs.

Installation of Nutanix Unified Storage was easy. We referred to the Nutanix Bible and utilized KB articles for guidance.

Pricing is good as per the market value.

We have been using VMware in addition to Nutanix.

I rate Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) a seven out of ten. It has good features but needs improvements in storage management and user permissions tracking. Consider consulting me for enhancements as I have experience and analysis reports that could help Nutanix succeed in the market.

I work with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for many cases. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) can meet any storage need that a company has, such as traditional block storage for NFS or virtualization. It can deliver a file solution for different kinds of needs of a company, and even objects for backup, for logs, for data lakes, for image repositories. It's a very popular solution in Brazil for medical companies that need to store diagnostic images for a very long time. It can handle any kind of data usage, even for containers and Kubernetes. It's a very flexible and scalable solution.

The performance of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for high throughput and low latency requirements is the main point. When we work with centralized storage, traditional storage, we have a limit to the throughput that we can achieve with the size of the controllers. With Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), we can scale this out and have as many controllers as we need and scale this live on production with no need to stop, no need for data migration. With large amounts of files, this is game-changing.

The main feature of the solution is the live migration that we have and the scalability from both a virtual perspective and the hardware perspective. Since last year, we have had a migration tool for migrating files from a traditional file system or an NAS solution. We migrate the file system with all the permissions and the SMB profiles. We migrate the file system as a copy and paste from a Windows or a NAS solution to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

My impression of the cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for dealing with unstructured data and ransomware threats is that it operates with the same approach as its main storage solution. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is security-first. It's already built into the system, and new features are developed every month. We can have a solution for micro-segmentation in this solution. We can include our unified storage in a VPC and have isolation or micro-segmentation from those who can access the solution and deliver even more security features to avoid data extrapolation and unauthorized data copying. We have the Data Lens solution, which helps us identify threats such as ransomware and rogue behaviors that users might have. It's a very complete solution.

To improve Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), cost is always an issue for every company, especially when we talk about large amounts of data. This is more a cultural market issue than the price of the solution. The value that the solution delivers is very high. For companies that use data as an asset, for a data lake, for analytics, the return on the investment is almost instant. This is a mentality question that the market has to learn to use. Data Lens is not for a backup repository. It's for a data lake and production data that will be used as an asset.

I have extensive experience with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) since its launch. Before, the product had other names. The solution for files was called Nutanix Files, then Nutanix Objects. About three years ago, the product was changed to Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).

I would rate the support for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) as very good. I needed it just one time, and the support worked wonders with the case that we had.

Positive

The initial setup of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very straightforward. It's the delivery of a virtual appliance just as with the Prism Central and anything within the Nutanix portfolio. The setup is very simple.

I am familiar with the Data Lens: High Cost feature of Nutanix Unified Storage. It has a price barrier. It's not for everyone. It's costly, but it's very powerful. This is a step further than the traditional data analytics that is built-in with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS). Data Lens takes it to the next level. We have deeper insights and deeper management of the profiles of data use. For companies where data is a resource and asset, Data Lens is a must-have product.

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

Our primary use cases include using the immutable defined storage as a solution for backup, where we have warm backup as the immutable data that we can store there, ensuring that the security of that data will not be changed, which is our last part of security in the data lake.

The immutable data and the object storage are important to us as they provide the same solution as the public clouds with buckets of data that we can store inside. We have always had it, and it's important to integrate our backup solution using this with data course.

The immutable data and object storage are important to us, providing the same solution as the public clouds with buckets of data. In our current situation, we have benefits with NUS that our infrastructure depends on, and we have more benefits by implementing NUS integrated with our infrastructure. This part of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is particularly valuable.

We have been using NUS for about four years.

Regarding downtime issues, we haven't had downtime in generations, and everything is going very well. I wouldn't be able to provide negative feedback on that aspect considering the cost benefits.

We plan to assess our storage needs by increasing with ten more nodes, which add up to our storage, and we plan to expand further in the future. Currently, we have purchased ten nodes with approximately six hundred terabytes for our workload.

When considering the difference in cost benefits, if you consider it only as a storage solution, you may find it expensive. However, if you see NUS as a solution with additional features, in my opinion, it's cheaper than others, providing middle-term cost benefits.

When it comes to the vendor or partner, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is the best partner we have, so you need a partnership with them.