We performed a comparison between Nutanix Prism and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtualization Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Nutanix is a HCA product and includes VMware called Nutanix Express that has been fantastic for us. We have about 100 plus VMs without any trouble and we have VCDR."
"The storage management is one of the best."
"Nutanix Prism is very fast compared to VMware and whatever you need to do, you can do it quickly."
"In the six years we have been using Nutanix Prism, we have never had a problem with stability."
"We can also manage our disaster recovery plan from a single console."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Prism is the single location management. You can manage everything from one location HTML5 web interface which is highly intuitive. The solution is easy to use, you do not need to be an expert in storage."
"Because in my role I create a lot of reports, it is very handy to be able to show the customer, "This is your cluster. At the moment, you are using this much CPU, this much RAM, and this much storage." I can give them information on what they're using, how many VMs, and the amount of data they're using."
"The centralized management of Nutanix Prism is the best feature."
"It improves the status of my infrastructure, from networking devices to real-time machines."
"Technical support has been very helpful so far."
"It gives me a live view of the traffic on the WAN."
"Stable and scalable network monitoring tool. Installation is simple and straightforward."
"The solution is very easy to use and the web provides information with ease."
"The remote probe feature in PRTG Network Monitor helps you monitor remote systems or your network at a lower cost than other solutions."
"The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts."
"There was only one feature I liked about PRTG Network Monitor a lot, and that was bandwidth monitoring, though, in the newer versions of the tool, that feature is now a bit lacking. Pricing for PRTG Network Monitor is also not as expensive. It's a good tool, even for beginners."
"The automation needs to be improved, as there are several challenges."
"The simplicity that Prism provides is something of a dual-edged sword. It can be almost too simple at times. When there is an issue and something is really wrong, it can make it a little more difficult to track it down because the Prism interface is very limited for drilling down into those highly technical or highly complicated errors."
"Nutanix is a great product, but I won't say it is a data center product. If it could leverage or work with non-Nutanix infrastructure, it would be a total data center solution. Right now, with Prism Central, we can only manage Nutanix clusters."
"The initial setup is extremely complex. I am Nutanix Certified, so I had the ability, but there were still things that we weren't trained in. They mandate—not recommend, but mandate—having an approved installer do it, and it was a very painful process. The installer that we took from CDW was not good, in the extreme. I had to go back to Nutanix directly and get all the problems fixed."
"There can be some constraints on how it scales, making granular scaling difficult with the product."
"The dashboard visibility could be improved."
"No integration of commands to manage AHV."
"It would be ideal if there was more of a community around the solution so that it would be easier to learn things about the solution from other users."
"Users need to buy the more expensive licenses if they expect to be able to scale."
"Its price can be better. Its price is a problem for us because it is in dollars, and there is a high conversion rate. In terms of new features, it can have BGP monitoring. It should also have a dashboard and maps editor."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve the price."
"I would like to see a more robust platform and a new dashboard. In addition, the code is good, but it needs improvement."
"PRTG access works best from the web GUI. There are dedicated apps on Windows/Android/iOS, but they are slow and don’t work as well as the web GUI."
"The free version only gives us 100 free sensors to use. It would be nice if there was double that."
"The only sort of limitation is the actual probes. So, if you don't have enough probes on there, you can over flip them and cause the WMI sensors and SNMP sensors to sort of overload. Sometimes, they might timeout for a minute, but they do come back."
"Can be slow in the way it polls the different engines."
Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Nutanix Prism is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Zabbix, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and VMware Aria Operations for Applications, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Nutanix Prism vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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