We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Nutanix Prism 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."I like being able to expand my workload with Nutanix Cloud Manager at the best cost."
"It made it a lot easier to spin up these tenant environments with little to no administrative overhead."
"It's easy to transfer data and synch up the change and manage/monitor from a single point. Backup is much easier too."
"One of the most valuable features is the hardware and how they have set it up to be pretty redundant. If something goes down, you can just swap it out and you're back online. If a drive or even a whole node goes down, it's pretty easy to get it back up and running."
"The Nutanix stack is hyper-converged. I don't need to buy expensive SAN storage because it's integrated into the hardware appliance. That's the best part. We get excellent latency by leveraging local storage."
"The ability to do Layer 2 stretching across data centers is valuable. The migration of VMs from one location to the other is also valuable."
"It has allowed us to easily manage multiple clusters in multiple locations through Prism. We have multiple sites that we use to manage and run VMware at which could be a bit cumbersome with Vsphere. Since we made the migration to Nutanix we now only have active servers at three locations, and we can manage them through Prism Central with ease."
"The file server feature in Nutanix is very good, offering a solution-worthy feature that can host files, blocks, and object storage in the same cluster."
"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."
"I like the general usability for general configuration. It is sufficient for everyday operations."
"Nutanix Prism's dashboard is very simple, and you don't need much knowledge to use it."
"The most valuable feature is that, when you log in, you have customized dashboards. You can add widgets to those dashboards and you can change the density of certain data points in the dashboards. When I log in, I quickly see where the cluster lies, as far as memory and CPU resources go."
"The auto-update option is a valuable feature for us."
"Simplicity of use."
"Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling."
"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."
"In the first couple of months of deploying Nutanix, we had an issue with certain nodes that were rebooting automatically. Nothing went down, but it was concerning. Within a week of having the problem, we had a dedicated support person who worked with us for about a month and a half while they found the bug and developed a new patch for it. We tested it for them, then once it was working, everything was good."
"The solution's virtualization could be even better."
"There are some load-balancing features that are currently missing in the flow network security and could potentially be added in the future."
"I would like to see a P2V feature like Move or Xtract. The interface for migrating from one VM infrastructure to another is one of the best but going from a physical machine to a Nutanix VM is a bit too challenging."
"Perhaps the only point I see as an improvement would be the support of multiple languages in the environment. One of the few things within which I see an improvement point could be the inclusion of multilanguage in the environment."
"The commercialization of their data fiber needs improvement to gain more traction with VMware."
"Compatibility with multiple clouds and a single control would help us. We are also getting onto GCP, and there is limited compatibility with GCP in the areas we need. We are using GCP primarily for data analytics."
"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."
"Perhaps the interface can be more intuitive."
"Although this solution has very good analytics capabilities, it can be even more granular."
"The life cycle management or LCM feature is the most complicated. It takes really long and is unpredictable for our use cases. They should provide more detailed information about the kind of LCM to go for, various errors, and different kinds of tasks. For analytics for certain configurations, we require more details with the report. Sometimes, not all elements are present for support, management, and configuration. For troubleshooting, it would be very easy and useful if we can analyze log files directly from Prism, that is, not from the command line but directly from Prism."
"The VM backup could be better, and its licensing could be better. We have had some licensing issues with Nutanix Files. The default license should be 1 TB or more. Currently, for Nutanix Files sharing, we can only use 500 Gigabytes."
"The licensing cost has room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like the ability to browse data stores."
"The cost is a negative aspect."
"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."
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is ranked 2nd in Virtualization Management Tools with 72 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) writes "Highly scalable and stable, with one-click upgrade and analytics features, and provides excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is most compared with vCloud Director, Morpheus, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware Aria Operations and OpenNebula, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Zabbix, Cisco UCS Manager, Veeam ONE and HPE OneView. See our Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs. Nutanix Prism report.
See our list of best Virtualization Management Tools vendors.
We monitor all Virtualization Management Tools reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.