We performed a comparison between Nutanix Prism and VMware Aria Operations 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."The HTML5 interface is very robust."
"Nutanix Insights... does analytics on resource usage for all virtual machines to determine if they are using the allocated resources efficiently or if they are wasting them. It gives us insights into which virtual machines are using the resources over the past months or weeks or days, and which ones are not using them. That way, we can rearrange resource usage for the virtual machines."
"It provides a single pane of glass and the graphics and the presentation are quite good. It's quite exciting for me. I would rate it 10 out of 10. The user interface is pretty easy to use for compute and storage."
"The auto-update option is a valuable feature for us."
"I don't know how to explain how much time and effort switching to Nutanix HCI has saved us. It's 80 percent more time-efficient and convenient than having to use multiple interfaces to deal with storage and compute in our hypervisor."
"Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation."
"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."
"The solution's technical support is helpful and responsive."
"The built-in dashboards for troubleshooting are nice."
"The dashboards and the interface are very easy to understand, very lively, and very dynamic."
"Its ability to resolve an issue from within the application rather than going somewhere else to resolve it."
"It allows me to see how my entire infrastructure is performing in a simplified manner."
"The most valuable feature for me that the pre-implemented, existing dashboards. The fact that I don't need to create a dashboard myself is helpful"
"It gives us visibility into the virtual infrastructure, and even the physical infrastructure, and into the workloads running. We have visibility even at the level of the appliance services. We can monitor everything. We can also create dependency reports, so if a service is down, it will not impact things. It gives us those dependencies brilliantly."
"It visualizes stuff better, so we can pinpoint or see problems"
"It helped troubleshooting issues with storms of software data that cost a lot of IO."
"There are some things that you can only do via the command line. Over the years that I've been using Nutanix, they've slowly integrated those into Prism, but they're still trying to catch up with a solution that has been around longer, like VMware."
"The main area where an improvement could be made would be the pricing."
"Perhaps the interface can be more intuitive."
"The interface is good, but it needs improvements. There are a lot of functions that are only available in the CLI. In addition, some of the hardware components could be improved. We already had some trouble with disks."
"The solution does not support creating hybrid disc clusters."
"Does not yet have micro application using a company's provider."
"Nutanix Prism needs more flexibility commercially and more flexibility with their licensing. Currently they're very fixed on their licensing model, for example, it's based on terabyte calculation."
"The automation needs to be improved, as there are several challenges."
"It's a little bit scattered. I have to go through a lot of steps to get everything in one place. I would like it that if you click on one cluster, you get all the information from the host, VMs, whatever is there. Sometimes I have to go to different places to get the information."
"In a previous version, you could click on a cluster to see a lot of information about efficiency, e.g., when you will run out of memory, CPU usage, and RAM in percentages. In newer versions, you see this information in megahertz and kilobytes, not percentage. I don't like this change so much. If you need to present information to your boss or Director of IT, the information would be better with a percentage. Now, you have only a big number and don't know the percentage of use that you are getting from the VMs. I don't know why they changed it, but I liked the percentage version more than getting the numbers for megahertz of memory. Also, kilobytes of memory is a very large number. For a simple view, gigabytes or terabytes is better."
"The solution must provide better training options to help us make the most of the tool."
"I would like to go back in history on the performance data and blank out some of that performance data so that it isn't used in calculations."
"It is a bit complex, so you need to spend time with it."
"You can troubleshoot, you can do all kinds of deep-dives into the issue and find out what the root cause is and everything, but in order to get it fixed, whatever it is (doesn't matter what it is), you need to log into another tool in order to fix it."
"We integrated vROps with vRealize Log Insight, but it was not helpful to me. It was not giving me any good data."
"Monitoring is useful but if the solution can't automate or function without my input, it's a waste of my time. That's where I found out there are some issues with this product, there are elements that are not as intuitive as they could or should be."
Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews. Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8, while VMware Aria Operations 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 VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". Nutanix Prism is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Veeam ONE and HPE OneView, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. See our Nutanix Prism vs. VMware Aria Operations report.
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