Virtualization engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2025-05-08T21:02:11Z
May 8, 2025
I'm not familiar with the contracts, but I thought the process was pretty seamless. Licensing for the Nutanix part was the same as licensing something on-prem, and since it runs on bare metal EC2, there was no new process we had to go through—it fits into our existing procurement processes nicely. I appreciate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)'s license portability. We had some bugs along the way, but we sorted those out with support and engineering. It's been a very positive experience since I can license things quickly without feeling I'm trying to write a dissertation on licensing, which sometimes feels necessary elsewhere.
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 20
2025-05-08T19:41:00Z
May 8, 2025
My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been that it was a good package for us, especially since we were existing on-prem Nutanix users, which made choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) as a DR solution obvious.
Vice President, Enterprise & Architect at First Foundation Inc
Real User
Top 20
2025-05-08T18:34:00Z
May 8, 2025
The license is portable. No matter where the machine or server is located, we are able to license the compute and storage. It's flexible. We've had no issues with pricing.
My experience with the pricing, the setup costs, and the licensing until now is that it was pretty on par with what we were quoted out of the box, as expected.
For us, the pricing and costs have been fair. We've been with Nutanix for maybe five years, and we started off with AHV, which was definitely a better play than VMware and other companies. Now, they're getting to be a little bit closer in pricing. My impressions of Nutanix's license portability are that it's been great. We actually have VDI licensing, so we pretty much just have to pay for the hardware and for each user that we're using for our virtual environments. The fact that we can do those in the cloud, on-prem, anywhere has been a big help to us.
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The licensing portability can be very interesting. At the moment, I am working with Nutanix Appliances with the AHV as a hypervisor. I did not have a chance to ask for portability between platforms, but it will be good if you can have portability between multiple types of platforms.
Senior Digital Infrastructure Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2023-05-13T09:59:00Z
May 13, 2023
The license portability is good. We migrated our hardware-tied licenses to their capacity-based model. Once we migrated those licenses we then linked to NC2. That was a great advantage that we could do that.
The pricing is a bit high. It could be less expensive. It gets very expensive to use it. It's based on the CPU and everyone else basically has pricing based on the CPU and between CPU, RAM, and hard drive space. It's not amazing.
Security and Infrastructure Practice manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Reseller
2020-09-22T07:16:07Z
Sep 22, 2020
The licensing costs depend on what you need and how it is sized. I am working on one configuration that is priced at $50,000 USD, whereas another one that I'm working on is estimated to cost $250,000 USD. It really depends on the customer's environment.
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I'm not familiar with the contracts, but I thought the process was pretty seamless. Licensing for the Nutanix part was the same as licensing something on-prem, and since it runs on bare metal EC2, there was no new process we had to go through—it fits into our existing procurement processes nicely. I appreciate Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)'s license portability. We had some bugs along the way, but we sorted those out with support and engineering. It's been a very positive experience since I can license things quickly without feeling I'm trying to write a dissertation on licensing, which sometimes feels necessary elsewhere.
My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been that it was a good package for us, especially since we were existing on-prem Nutanix users, which made choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) as a DR solution obvious.
The license is portable. No matter where the machine or server is located, we are able to license the compute and storage. It's flexible. We've had no issues with pricing.
My experience with the pricing, the setup costs, and the licensing until now is that it was pretty on par with what we were quoted out of the box, as expected.
For us, the pricing and costs have been fair. We've been with Nutanix for maybe five years, and we started off with AHV, which was definitely a better play than VMware and other companies. Now, they're getting to be a little bit closer in pricing. My impressions of Nutanix's license portability are that it's been great. We actually have VDI licensing, so we pretty much just have to pay for the hardware and for each user that we're using for our virtual environments. The fact that we can do those in the cloud, on-prem, anywhere has been a big help to us.
It is more than five on a scale of price, considering it quite expensive. It's challenging to regulate the price-quality ratio.
The licensing portability can be very interesting. At the moment, I am working with Nutanix Appliances with the AHV as a hypervisor. I did not have a chance to ask for portability between platforms, but it will be good if you can have portability between multiple types of platforms.
The solution's licensing can be very pricey.
The price is high.
The solution has been more costly at this point. We do not see any cost savings.
There are positives and negatives to licensing. It all makes sense now, but it took a while. When the licenses first changed, it was a bit confusing.
The license portability is good. We migrated our hardware-tied licenses to their capacity-based model. Once we migrated those licenses we then linked to NC2. That was a great advantage that we could do that.
I can't speak to the licensing costs. I have no visibility on that at all.
The pricing is a bit high. It could be less expensive. It gets very expensive to use it. It's based on the CPU and everyone else basically has pricing based on the CPU and between CPU, RAM, and hard drive space. It's not amazing.
The licensing costs depend on what you need and how it is sized. I am working on one configuration that is priced at $50,000 USD, whereas another one that I'm working on is estimated to cost $250,000 USD. It really depends on the customer's environment.