Virtualization engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
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2025-05-08T21:02:11Z
May 8, 2025
We've been told some of these things are on the road map. I believe that networking is one of the biggest improvements. They have a great stock already, but some use cases, particularly around incrementally spinning up workloads, haven't been considered closely enough. As we're putting workloads on there by adding a few VMs at a time, there are networking aspects that need to be considered more closely. It's great once everything's there, but incrementally getting things there is what's difficult.
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
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2025-05-08T19:41:00Z
May 8, 2025
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved as it currently looks and feels slightly different than on-prem. Engineering could aim for a look and feel closer to on-prem, making it easier for newer users.
Vice President, Enterprise & Architect at First Foundation Inc
Real User
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2025-05-08T18:34:00Z
May 8, 2025
In the early stages, there were not many deployment guides available. Now that the product is more mature, there are probably more experience and deployment guides available. The offering on GCP is a feature we have been waiting for to compare costs.
Having compatible feature sets between Azure and AWS would go a long way to improving the overall NC2 experience. The pricing was pretty on par with what we were told what the pricing would be out of the box. To make pricing a ten, having that same, similar feature set between AWS and Azure would help.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved with some more tools that could help synchronize on-prem and cloud stuff better. The stuff they have is acceptable, it works, however, it could be easier and more efficient.
I don't have the expertise to build a hybrid cloud. We are starting to build one and haven't tried that part yet. I want to try because that is the most critical part for us. I want to see what, if anything, could be improved. The product is fantastic locally. Now, I want to try it in the cloud. My problem is not in the infrastructure; it is in the application, a different thing.
Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
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2023-12-06T17:14:00Z
Dec 6, 2023
While a minimum of three blocks and four nodes is necessary to mitigate risk, the associated cost is substantial. I would like to see a reduction in this cost. The reporting has room for improvement. The automated playbook claims to be improved with AI, but I do not see any improvement.
Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2023-05-13T15:35:00Z
May 13, 2023
We've had some challenges with the implementation. We had to go through all the necessary setups, and we had some challenges in terms of integrating our current environment into the Nutanix cloud. We also worked with some NC2 experts, and we've gotten over most of the challenges. Now, we are able to set up the cluster on AWS accurately. The next step is to get fully integrated with Prism Central so that we can continue with the POC test.
Senior Digital Infrastructure Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2023-05-13T09:59:00Z
May 13, 2023
Not much can be improved at the moment, given that we're quite an early adopter and we're not quite live yet. The experience of deployment was very slick. The support from Microsoft and Nutanix was very good. Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the features of Prism Central versus the local Prism Elements UI but I understand that is being reviewed.
The snapshots have room for improvement. The pricing can be better. They don't own the networking side of it. Nutanix is harder to restore. The problem with Nutanix is when you want to restore data and you only want to restore selected data, much more tedious. With Scale, it's a simple GUI and takes seconds.
Security and Infrastructure Practice manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Reseller
2020-09-22T07:16:07Z
Sep 22, 2020
The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it. We are just starting to get engaged with this product. It has to be priced aggressively because it needs to make sense for customers to migrate to it.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) provide essential capabilities for managing cloud migration, infrastructure, disaster recovery, and data center replacement. They enable seamless application transfer between cloud and on-premises, ensuring redundancy and handling large-scale operations across multiple locations.
With NC2, users manage server virtualization, web access, and email services while implementing robust failover solutions into public cloud environments like Microsoft Azure and...
We've been told some of these things are on the road map. I believe that networking is one of the biggest improvements. They have a great stock already, but some use cases, particularly around incrementally spinning up workloads, haven't been considered closely enough. As we're putting workloads on there by adding a few VMs at a time, there are networking aspects that need to be considered more closely. It's great once everything's there, but incrementally getting things there is what's difficult.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved as it currently looks and feels slightly different than on-prem. Engineering could aim for a look and feel closer to on-prem, making it easier for newer users.
In the early stages, there were not many deployment guides available. Now that the product is more mature, there are probably more experience and deployment guides available. The offering on GCP is a feature we have been waiting for to compare costs.
Having compatible feature sets between Azure and AWS would go a long way to improving the overall NC2 experience. The pricing was pretty on par with what we were told what the pricing would be out of the box. To make pricing a ten, having that same, similar feature set between AWS and Azure would help.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) could be improved with some more tools that could help synchronize on-prem and cloud stuff better. The stuff they have is acceptable, it works, however, it could be easier and more efficient.
It's more than expensive. Firecaster cannot limit IOP or throughput reading and writing. Quality control needs to regulate the price-quality ratio.
The product could be improved in scalability and support services.
What we need now is multi-tenant features to make the clusters self-deploy and self-use on the platform instead of us having to do it manually.
I don't have the expertise to build a hybrid cloud. We are starting to build one and haven't tried that part yet. I want to try because that is the most critical part for us. I want to see what, if anything, could be improved. The product is fantastic locally. Now, I want to try it in the cloud. My problem is not in the infrastructure; it is in the application, a different thing.
While a minimum of three blocks and four nodes is necessary to mitigate risk, the associated cost is substantial. I would like to see a reduction in this cost. The reporting has room for improvement. The automated playbook claims to be improved with AI, but I do not see any improvement.
We've had some challenges with the implementation. We had to go through all the necessary setups, and we had some challenges in terms of integrating our current environment into the Nutanix cloud. We also worked with some NC2 experts, and we've gotten over most of the challenges. Now, we are able to set up the cluster on AWS accurately. The next step is to get fully integrated with Prism Central so that we can continue with the POC test.
I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes.
Not much can be improved at the moment, given that we're quite an early adopter and we're not quite live yet. The experience of deployment was very slick. The support from Microsoft and Nutanix was very good. Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the features of Prism Central versus the local Prism Elements UI but I understand that is being reviewed.
There are still some things that could be improved about the product.
Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be. The initial setup can be slightly complex.
The snapshots have room for improvement. The pricing can be better. They don't own the networking side of it. Nutanix is harder to restore. The problem with Nutanix is when you want to restore data and you only want to restore selected data, much more tedious. With Scale, it's a simple GUI and takes seconds.
The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it. We are just starting to get engaged with this product. It has to be priced aggressively because it needs to make sense for customers to migrate to it.