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Nutanix AHV

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39 Reviews and Ratings

What is Nutanix AHV?

Nutanix AHV is presented as a modern and secure virtualization platform that powers VMs and containers for applications and cloud-native workloads on-premises and in public clouds. Its tools and automated workflows simplify the day-to-day administration of VMs and containers.

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Nutanix AHV Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Nutanix AHV has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Live virtual machine backup

    Ability to backup vms without interrupting service

    Category average: 8

  • Hypervisor-level security

    Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware

    Category average: 8.4

  • Virtual machine automated provisioning

    Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Management console

    Management console for central administration of vm environment

    Category average: 8

  • Live virtual machine migration

    Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters

    Category average: 7.9

Who Buys & Uses Nutanix AHV

Nutanix AHV Reviews

What users are saying about Nutanix AHV.
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Nutanix AHV Review

Incentivized
Gourgopal Pradhan
Consultant in Information Technology at UCO Bank (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have had an excellent experience on Nutanix AHV, which is best in migration from cross-hypervisor platform to AHV and easy to use. Nutanix AHV gives us smooth integrations and powerful management tools.

Pros

  • Seamless integration and simplified management interface
  • We can extend/increase CPU-Memory-Disk on running VMS
  • Quick and smooth management, with less resource utilizations with respect from any others hypervisors
  • Migration capabilities for cluster wise and remote zones wise
  • Quick deploy any kinds of images and smooth network management

Cons

  • Sometimes any change done, alert is showing multiple times in any one changes
  • Limited Hardware Compatibility
  • Limited Third-Party Support

Return on Investment

  • Nutanix Beam helps enable enterprises to take control of their total cloud spend with automated cost governance policies. Beam provides unified visibility into public and private cloud spending, including clusters, VMs, and other services.
  • Lower administrative overhead, increased employee productivity, and costs savings.
  • Nutanix AHV is also generally free to use, which can benefit organizations with budget constraints.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi and Azure Virtual Machines

Other Software Used

Nutanix Database Services, Nutanix Unified Storage, Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking

Nutanix AHV is an excellent product

Incentivized
Julio C MarínView profile
Julio marin in Engineering at GBM (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I think that Nutanix AHV is an excellent product for hyper-convergence vanguard.

Pros

  • hyperconvergence
  • easy to use
  • simplicity

Cons

  • With workflow
  • in the vm´s
  • by the charge storage

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI: It makes my job easier
  • Positive ROI: I automated almost everything
  • Positive ROI: It's simple to manage

Usability

Other Software Used

Appflow, Azure App Service, VMware ESXi

Nutanix AHV - Excellent Hypervisor, Excellent Service

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nutanix AHV is our primary on-premise hypervisor. Our day-to-day operations and nearly all virtual workloads run on Nutanix AHV. Workloads include, web servers, database workloads, virtual desktop infrastructure, application servers.Environments served: Test, Dev, QA, UAT and Production. We migrated to hyperconverged Nutanix AHV and NX hardware from ESXi on Cisco UCS and NetApp as a three-tier solution. Our business case was for datacenter modernization, datacenter footprint reduction, power and cooling savings. We were able to reduce datacenter footprint by nearly 70%.

Pros

  • Migates workloads from existing infrastructure to Nutanix AHV
  • Allows datacenter updates to be completed in a few simple clicks, administrators get some of those nights and weekends back
  • Products are intuitive and training is easily available and affordable

Cons

  • Reporting, where it has improved, can still be expanded upon
  • Vendor validated designs need to be expanded, this is not a Nutanix AHV issue

Return on Investment

  • Saved on datacenter footprint in co-lo
  • Saved in overall licensing costs
  • Saved time and manpower with update structure and automation platform

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Scale Computing Platform, VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN

Other Software Used

VMware vSAN, Scale Computing Platform

Used Nutanix AHV to replace VMware

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Nutanix AHV to replace VMware and to prepare POCs of multiple apps.

Pros

  • It acts as a single interface to manage all activities
  • Provides easier recovery points
  • Easy to use

Cons

  • Storage management and recovery
  • Performance tuning optimization
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Kubernates and container integration

Return on Investment

  • Improved our scalability capabilities
  • Improved in optimizing the solution to fit to tighter budgets
  • Easy to train the it team on its use and troubleshooting

Alternatives Considered

VMware AppDefense (discontinued)

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, Oracle Access Management

Nutanix AHV review... a good product with a rich feature set and a company going places.

Incentivized
Christopher CundallView profile
Data Centre & Infrastructure Specialist in Information Technology at Arqiva (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started using it for a small-scale VDI and have now used it in anger for a lot more systems.

Pros

  • Integration of HCI with an easy intuitive CLI
  • Updates are straight forward
  • Nutanix AOS training is free, labs are helpful and makes using Nutanix AOS easy

Cons

  • Integration with other CLIs makes it complex to work out which CLI for which purpose is needed.
  • Cost... its not cheap (but you pay for what you get some times.)
  • We did get a dodgy set of DIMMs which require reboots, resetting, or replacing. Still getting above normal failure rates.

Return on Investment

  • It has mostly delivered what was expected.
  • We flog the hardware hard and it has stood up well.
  • The Nutanix ecosystem is improving all the time. Its a company going places.

Alternatives Considered

Dell EMC VxRail

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