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We performed a comparison between Nutanix Prism and WhatsUp Gold 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.
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Pros
"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 HTML5 interface is very robust.""The ability to do snapshots is fantastic. It does a great job. Not only do snapshots work great, but you can take a snapshot on the fly. The snapshot takes a second to complete. You can then make a change and test it out to see if it works. If you have any problem, just roll it right back.""The auto-update option is a valuable feature for us.""The centralized management of Nutanix Prism is the best feature.""Nutanix Prism's dashboard is very simple, and you don't need much knowledge to use it.""You can go directly to the Prism dashboard and it gives you all the information. It's easy to use. I have worked on other platforms but the single pane of glass that Prism has is very helpful for seeing what's going on in your environment: usage, storage, capacity, and behavior."

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"The documentation is very good.""NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business.""It handles the basics of monitoring.""The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps.""The installation and configuration process are easy.""WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy.""It is stable.""This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."

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Cons
"Does not yet have micro application using a company's provider.""It doesn't integrate very well with any backup solution.""Nutanix Prism could improve by having more features or configurations in the web interface. We should not have to use the command-line interface(CLI). For some clients using the CLI can be difficult.""The product currently fails to provide a complete view to customers.""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.""I would like to have some cluster management tools included.""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.""Performance metrics and analytics could be improved."

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"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be.""Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices.""The product is old and not updated.""Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity.""I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring.""The interface needs some work.""I might like to see a better interface in the future.""The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."

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  • "A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved."
  • "Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great."
  • "Nutanix Prism is priced better than some of the competing solutions."
  • "This product is cheaper than using VMware."
  • "The license we bought for Nutanix Prism is perpetual, so once you have it, you can keep on using it. It's a three-year license that's paid one time. The license we have covers the three-node cluster."
  • "The license for Prism is costlier than other VMs."
  • "We have spent a lot of money on the Nutanix solution with Prism. Yet, for this amount of money we could be buying high-end storage with a lot of IOPS and bandwidth, even more than with Nutanix."
  • "Nutanix have bundles for pricing. On a single bundle, we get everything including vSAN or VMware and there are no additional costs. It is just a single license that is needed."
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  • "Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."
  • "I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."
  • "The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."
  • "The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."
  • "There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."
  • "It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."
  • "The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."
  • "This is a well priced solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's technical support is helpful and responsive.
    Top Answer:It is an expensive software. One of the challenges I have seen is that the subscription-based licensing model comes across as a recurring cost, which makes it an area of concern for our company's… more »
    Top Answer:The UI offered by the solution is okay. Some of our company's customers who use the product ask for some granular level reports which make up for an area where improvements are required. If users want… more »
    Top Answer:The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers.
    Top Answer:I cannot provide a price rating because we purchased a one-time perpetual license. It's all ours, and we're still enjoying it. We renewed support until last year, but we didn't get benefits from it.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in server management and application monitoring. An additional feature I would like to see in the next release would be more detailed application monitoring capabilities.
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    Overview

    Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

    Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.

    Sample Customers
    JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen
    Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Insurance Company8%
    Consumer Goods Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Government17%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Retailer11%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Government12%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise59%
    Buyer's Guide
    Nutanix Prism vs. WhatsUp Gold
    July 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix Prism vs. WhatsUp Gold and other solutions. Updated: July 2020.
    763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 37 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews. Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Gives us better, more granular control over user access to servers and what users can do". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "Good documentation, helpful support, and an easy setup". Nutanix Prism is most compared with Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Veeam ONE, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Grafana, Nagios XI and PRTG Network Monitor. See our Nutanix Prism vs. WhatsUp Gold report.

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