We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."It made it a lot easier to spin up these tenant environments with little to no administrative overhead."
"Among the most valuable features are the one-click upgrade, that Nutanix is very easy to understand, and that it's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is less or no implementation time. It should be up and running at any point in time so I don't spend time in transformation."
"The tool's management for clusters is amazing and simple. It's quite simple to use it daily. With 1-click centralized upgrades, I can update my entire cluster using the data tech software from a single point in an easy way. It shows me that I have an update, then I just apply it, wait a few minutes, and all of the clusters are updated. It doesn't matter if it's a software update or something like bills. Everything is done from one central point. Also, the dashboard are really good. We have some relevant formations where I can see my cluster's CPU age, memory age, virtual machines, etc. All information can be viewed in an easy way, which provides me a cloud-like experience on an on-prem solution."
"The solution has automated reports and workflows. You can configure it to automatically send out reports to the business units responsible for managing cloud costs, so you don't need to log into the tool to get information. Cost Governance's user interface and dashboards are beautiful. The customers love it because it's easy to use. They can run it and get a report an hour later to immediately see the savings."
"We haven't faced any problems because Nutanix provides an outside team. We haven't had any issues requiring L3 support, and the L1 and L2 engineers are on-site."
"The scripting, where you can use libraries, is a valuable feature. We don't really make the blueprints, as we have a third-party company that makes them for us. But it enables calling APIs in the blueprints. When we create a machine, we use IPAM from Infoblox and we can get an IP address. It's one platform to script and we can then use all the APIs to complete the scripts. It gives us a central management tool from which we can do a lot of things automatically."
"I like the analytics and the interface. Nutanix is easy to deploy and manage."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"For Nutanix, there are options to go with different types of hardware vendors for using the AOS operating system. We can deploy it on Dell, Lenovo, or IBM servers. If Nutanix had its own server, it would be good."
"The list of blueprints and applications could be more configurable so you see all the fields you need and not just some predefined fields which are not customizable now."
"We'd like the demos to be longer - maybe two to three months. Some clients need much more time for a POC."
"Initial setup can be complex and requires professional services."
"Even though it's a lot easier, it could be a bit slicker for the end-users. The ability to create their own blueprints could be without their having to understand the details of what they're trying to do. If they could just tick this, this, this, and this — whatever they need — and it would go spinning those up, that would be better. Now, we still guide them quite a bit."
"In the next release, I would like to see more cloud providers like Micro BH or local providers."
"We use Nutanix only for our dev and test environments. Our production environment is VMware, and that is totally separate. But we do transfer data between them. That's a challenge because we need to frequently bring the production data into our test environment and that's a big transfer. If we could do a cross-storage transfer, like a transfer from NetApp or Nimble Storage into Nutanix with automation, that would greatly help us."
"There should be more APIs to integrate with different vendors and to integrate with the existing solutions that we use on-prem."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is ranked 4th in Cloud Cost Management with 72 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is rated 8.8, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) writes "An intuitive and easy-to-learn product that saves cost and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is most compared with vCloud Director, Morpheus, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware Aria Operations and OpenNebula, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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