Hassle-free setup process: Multiple users have found the setup process of Nutanix AHV to be hassle-free. They appreciate the assistance provided by Nutanix representatives during installation, which allows them to start building virtual machines immediately.
Seamless software updates: Several reviewers highly appreciate Nutanix AHV's automatic management of moving VMs between clusters during software updates without any downtime. This feature ensures uninterrupted operation and minimizes disruptions, contributing to a smooth and seamless experience.
Intuitive interface and management: Many users praise the ease of system management from a web browser with Nutanix. They find the interface well-outlined and intuitive, making it easy to navigate and perform tasks quickly. Additionally, the interface provides good historical data, allowing for better insights and decision-making.
I use Nutanix AOS for several Web Servers, core business applications, and mail servers. The obstacle we face is the renewal price is quite expensive.
I think Nutanix AOS is suitable for companies that need fast servers and good performance
I am using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for my virtual desktop infrastructure; as far as I have no issues, Nutanix dealt with a self-healing approach, which makes me believe in using Nutanix for my upcoming projects. I have integrated my infrastructure with Citrix cloud. I was facing one problem with Nutanix files; when the files share a name created with space in between, it will give a nightmare for the users, as they don't know why their files are loading slowly. Nutanix now allowing file share name with space on 1st attempt, when you edit the share its allowing you to use space in between.
I would recommend Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for private and public clouds for the organization, as it provides various features. AOS and AHV are NCI's main pilers, making the impossible possible. Node, block, and rack level fault tolerance with high effectiveness, I think only Nutanix can provide as they removed legacy 3-tier architecture
had a big sprawl of vm's from original and acquired companies that needed to be consolidated to manage the infrastructure. worried about staff churn with tribal knowledge we wanted to standardize and be equipped to scale out when future mergers happened. We managed with the standard Hyper visor as a individual company but as we acquired more companies it became unmanageable and the cost savings with this made ROI sense.
On the pricier side of the scale but after it's all said and done the transformation was well worth it. We felt that the ROI was recouped as expected with better resourcing. Would love to have a staging environment as part of the overall setup but i get it, it's all related to a cost.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is used to host Virtual machines (VMs) in our organization. The business problem it addresses is we don't have to maintain any physical storage servers after moving the VMs to Nutanix cloud. The physical footprint has been eliminated and we use Nutanix to keep all our VMs running, be it production, development or testing servers.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is well suited for any scale of organizations. Best suited when you want to migrate applications from physical centres to cloud which considerably decreases the maintenance costs.
Nutanix AOS has been the final missing puzzle piece to moving towards a more flexible, agile, HCI based datacenter eliminating the complex management that is common with traditional or converged infrastructure. The automation pieces, especially the playbooks save so much time in larger environments by automating common tasks like expanding disk, memory, or cpu allocation to VMs. The overall UI is so much better than VMware or Citrix and the performance and ease of upgrades is on another plane compared to vxrail / vxstack or hyperflex.
I would highly recommend using Nutanix HCI for any of your infrastructure needs. I would highly suggest saving money and using the free included AHV hypervisor. The performance is incredible, and the data reduction capabilities are on par with vSAN. I would only recommend using ESXi with Nutanix AOS if AHV does not yet support some one-off configurations or if you still want to use horizon while the frame is still growing.
We've been using Nutanix AOS to consolidate our converged infrastructure (CI) to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) across our entire estate. This has meant quicker deployment, less rack space, and simpler management overall. We stuck with using ESXi as our hypervisor as it gives us the most flexibility with the existing tools we need for operational support. Hoping to add Nutanix Files later on to consolidate the many file servers and shares across the business, additional capacity for this can easily be added via the Nutanix Storage nodes.
Nutanix AOS is well suited to:
Redundancy and resilience of your hardware
Largely manage itself, lots of checks done via Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC)
24/7 Operations where you have contractual commitments to keep
Support is second to none
Free online educational material (which is up-to-date too!)
On the downside, Nutanix AOS is probably not a good solution if:
Cost is your primary concern, maybe stick with vSphere or HyperV
24x7 uptime is not critical
There may be times when you need to work at a command line for features not in the GUI yet or general support requirements
Nutanix AOS is used across the whole organization as we manage a total of 3 clusters covering all our needs; storage, virtualization, networking, database.
Nutanix AOS is well suited for redundancy and scalability. But the overall performance is one level below dedicated hardware for some workloads.
Nutanix AOS is being used by [the] IT department, but indirectly it is being used across the whole organization. We did face some issues while migrating load from VMWare to AHV. Some of our legacy applications are not supported by AHV. Moreover, AHV does not have [the] capability to add existing disk or disk belongs to other VM. [I feel] it is also difficult to create a template in AHV.
After using Foundation to create a cluster, you can use the Nutanix web console to join the Hyper-V cluster and its constituent hosts to the domain, create the Hyper-V failover cluster, and enable Kerberos. If you are installing Windows Server 2016, you do not have to enable Kerberos. Kerberos is enabled during cluster creation.
We've implemented 3 blocks of 3 nodes into our primary datacenter and have the same setup in our secondary datacenter.
The hardware will be used to host our production hypervisor and guest VMs and will be our primary solution for DR.
The decision was made to purchase and implement the solution primarily as part of a hardware refresh but also to consolidate and improve our DR stance.
Very suited to companies with a medium-size infrastructure and upwards.
Especially suited to those companies with an eye for growth given the ease of installation for new hardware.
I can not say enough how great Nutanix AOS is. We switched over from HPE Omnicube over a year ago and it has been one of the best decisions we have made. Simply put we have gone from working with a vendor to a strategic partner with Nutanix. There customer service and responses have been fantastic!
It has functioned especially well in our Citrix environment. The increased network speed has been noticed almost immediately by end users. We have also been able to increase our storage at the same time. All of this while actually paying less for our infrastructure than we paid for 5 years ago. It really has been a great experience.