Nutanix Prism Primary Use Case
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reviewer2059110
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Prism Central is my daily management interface. There's a good overview of the individual clusters that we run.
We use it to take a look at IOPS for disk performance, disk latency, and storage statistics. We also look at the cluster memory resources to make sure that there's enough memory available. We also look at the CPU usage to make sure that there are not any unusual spikes or anything that could be played into creating a boot storm. If you're running virtual desktop stuff and they decide to recompose, suddenly there's a boot storm. We can get a feel for performance at any point in time.
We have four Nutanix Clusters in our environment, and the workloads go from database to general server and compute, applications, web services, and virtual desktop infrastructure. Our Citrix environment is run on a Nutanix Cluster as well.
It's all run in our data center.
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Drew Plaster
Sr. Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health
We mostly use Nutanix Prism for monitoring and management. It serves as a unified dashboard for all our Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure, providing a single point of access and control.
All of our workloads are hosted on our private cloud, and we have set up one cluster for the proof of concept in Azure's public cloud.
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reviewer2049372
IT Support Supervisor at a local government with 201-500 employees
Prism is the management dashboard for Nutanix. I'm in there quite frequently; not necessarily every day, but certainly, multiple times a week, whenever I'm checking on the health of the Nutanix environment.
There are a number of other applications that are tied in, Nutanix products, that use Prism for management, like Nutanix Files, which we use. I'm using it to check on that frequently.
I also check alerts and logs with it, and any kind of maintenance or upgrades that we do are all done through Prism. Anytime we do an AOS or foundation upgrade, or upgrades of whatever products are attached to it, they are done through Prism.
It's pretty much a one-stop shop for most day-to-day management of Nutanix. The only time you would ever really go outside of it is if you're having some infrastructure problem that would require you to touch the hardware physically.
We're all on-prem. We're not using any Nutanix cloud. We have multiple locations with Nutanix. It's our production environment, which includes web servers, database servers, email, and storage. Our entire environment runs on it.
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Yatin Shah
Data Center Admin at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have a four-cluster environment, two of them are on VMware and two of them are on AHV. My job is to look at the clusters and any related alerts. We have to commission and decommission virtual machines. If there are any upgrades of the BIOS or AOS, that's also part of my job.
Most of our Nutanix stuff is on-premises. We do have Azure, as well, but we have not fully migrated to the cloud yet.
We have database servers on Nutanix as well as application and domain servers.
View full review »We have a Nutanix cluster with multiple customers running on it. From Prism Central we manage things, see the status, and enlarge the different VMs. We use it for that a lot because we use it for small and medium-sized businesses. For those companies, Nutanix is too expensive, it's for bigger businesses normally, so we are giving these businesses an option to have a "Ferrari" in the garage since they cannot afford it.
We have everything in our data center. We're mostly running databases and virtual machines.
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reviewer1855257
IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have an on-prem hybrid solution and we have been using it for our data storage. We have things running in the cloud and we have a portion that is running on-prem and that is where we're running Nutanix.
We use it for mixed workloads including web servers, front-end servers, and container-based servers. Those are the on-prem workloads that are running on Nutanix. And the workload on the cloud is our cloud environment.
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infrastr764877
Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it for managing the cluster and all the hardware that goes with it, as well as for updates, management, and the whole lifecycle of the hardware. That's all done through Prism Element.
We run it in data centers and we use it for big data, ERP, SQL Databases, Exchange Servers, and file servers. Pretty much everything that can be virtualized is running on Nutanix.
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DrewPlaster
Sr Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health
We run CRM, EDI, all of our internal custom apps and batch processes, as well as ECU and BDI on Nutanix. About 80 to 85 percent of our infrastructure is Nutanix workloads.
All of our workloads are currently in our own private-cloud data centers. We have three data centers. Of our eight clusters, five are running Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor and three are running VMware ESXi. We run them all through Prism Central so we can monitor the performance of all of them through Prism Central.
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Tony Benko
Server Analyst at McGough Construction
I use it for day-to-day management of all of our clusters. I log in every day to verify that there are no alerts or critical issues going on. I use it to log in to our VMs, create new VMs, and delete or decommission old VMs. I also use it for updating our clusters and running lifecycle management checks for inventory.
The clusters are being run at our headquarters within a server room. And our three other clusters at remote offices are in a makeshift server closet. They are mainly used for end-user computing because the three remote offices have a virtual Nasuni filer. End-users at those offices are going to the filer for their home drive, department drive, and our file share. It's mainly end-user servers that run on those remote office clusters. All of our SQL databases reside on our cluster in HQ.
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Gupta Kg
Cloud Operations at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
We use Prism as a single-pane-of-glass console for all our alerts. My company started with one Nutanix cluster, but as we added more, we needed a central place to manage all of them. It's running in a hybrid environment, but we have some non-mechanical workloads that are completely on-prem.
The primary users are members of the infrastructure team, but our application folks have workloads running on that platform. They reach out to us with any troubleshooting or performance-related portions issues. We don't use Nutanix for automation. We have different tools for automating VM deployment and other tasks.
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Lalisa Buruse Zalalam
ICT Coordinator at CBO
We use Nutanix Prism for our on-premises cluster management and computing. We use Prism Central to allocate resources, create virtual machines, and do analysis on our resource consumption in our Nutanix clusters.
View full review »We use it to manage our clusters. We have it across eight Nutanix clusters, to manage and carry out the day-to-day activities. We use Prism Element as well as Prism Central.
All our applications are run on-prem. In terms of databases, they include SQL database, MySQL database, and some MongoDB. We also have SAP and Java virtual machines. All of these are used on top of our Nutanix cluster.
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DavidKim3
IT Systems administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We're using Nutanix as our main computing platform and we're using Prism with it. It's the Nutanix management UI and we're using it to manage the Nutanix cluster comprised of four physical servers. It's a single pane for management, and we're doing upgrades, updates, management, and protection, everything, through Prism. It's a really convenient interface.
We run it in our own server room in our on-prem facility.
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Joseph Kaplovitz
CIO at KAPLAN COMPANIES
We use Nutanix to run our entire network. We have 15 virtual Microsoft servers and a number of workstations running on it, as well as our internal cloud based on Nutanix. We use it for everything. We're running it in a data center.
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reviewer2053056
Network Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're a higher education institution with two campuses and we have about 5,000 students that we have to support. We use Nutanix for hyper-converged infrastructure.
We're somewhat hybrid with about 80 percent of our workloads on-premises and about 20 percent on the cloud in Azure. We are running VMware on our Nutanix hardware. We have ERP systems on it and our virtual wireless controllers that run our wireless infrastructure, in addition to our Cisco virtual appliance.
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Nauman-Allauddin
Presales Manager at Mideast Data Systems
Our company's customers usually ask us about simplification of their virtual environments, and they don't want to go for an external storage option or have a three-tier data center architecture. Our company's customers want small boxes that can handle the complete workload, including the storage, owing to which they prefer the HCI infrastructure. Nutanix Prism is basically used to monitor and manage specific areas of Nutanix HCI.
Prism is used to manage Nutanix Clusters. Everything that you can do in VMware, you can do in Prism.
Our workloads are run in a data center on a private cloud. We also do ROBO sites.
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Samir Poudel
Customer Success Engineer at Digital Network Solution (DNS)
We use Nutanix Prism for building a private cloud solution.
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Sunil Thalor
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for hyperconverged storage only. Prism is a gateway to Nutanix Elements and the latter shows me the storage. We run it on-premises in the data center in our building and it helps run education related applications like student management, databases,and time-tabling.
View full review »We use it as a private cloud for all of our IT infrastructure, including all the virtual machines for every project. We use it for workflow automation for Kubernetes. Nutanix has automation of Kubernetes clusters, and this is a very important use case for us.
It is used in our organization for every system and application: Oracle Database CDB, security systems, and local systems like our antivirus security system, Active Directory, and our finance system.
We have Nutanix in our main office, and two disaster sites. We run our workloads in a data center where there are physical servers and nodes.
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ARNAUD MATHELIN
Sysadmin at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
We use it for our production environment where we have a lot of applications running on this cluster. We also use it for our testing environment. In the future, we may have machine learning and artificial intelligence on it.
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Hasan Homedan
System Administrator at Jordan customs
We are using the core application of Nutanix, Nutanix AOS, with Prism for the application side of things. It is used specifically for its hyper-converged functionality, but not for anything database-related.
We use Prism to manage our three sites through a single pane of glass, mainly for data center infrastructure management. I'm the chief information officer and program leader, and we are customers of Nutanix.
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Yogesh Lohar
CEO at Orieta.tech
Nutanix Prism is used in a virtualized environment with high-performance requirements where people can have the VMs and run the databases with infrastructure as a given service, that has five nines or four nines uptime environments.
View full review »The product is a great central interface to manage the hardware and software that Nutanix provides. We have a one-stop shop to manage, report, and provide analytics.
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Tirut Hawoldar
Manager IT Security & Infrastructure at Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co. Ltd.
We have been using Nutanix Prism to manage a whole cluster to manage old VMs and the object inside the Nutanix and it has been very easy since we have a very beautiful dashboard that gives quite a lot of information about the CPU replacement or storage use.
View full review »Our company provides infrastructure as a service to our customers and the solution is used on top of our platform to streamline workflows.
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Sukanya Satapanachai
Infrastructure Professional Service Team Lead at G-Able
We use Nutanix Prism to manage our on-prem virtualized data center environment.
View full review »Our use case for this solution is hybrid. We use it for hyper-converged infrastructure and hybrid cloud management. The solution is deployed in the data centre.
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AngeESSAN
System & Infrastructure Consultant at CBI
I am using Nutanix Prism for many types of equipment, such as servers, SAN switches, and storage areas. You are able to manage your infrastructure from one central location, such as VMs and servers.
View full review »We are using Nutanix Prism for the replication between two sites and to manage our cluster. With the latest version, we have been able to use the synchronous replication.
View full review »We have 20 customers using this solution.
View full review »I'm the assistant vice president and we are Nutanix partners.
View full review »I mainly use Prism for the database file server.
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NISHANTPANCHAL
Principal technology specialist at Ooredoo Kuwait
We use this solution for the single console and to manage the entire data center. We can create VMs, storage and networks. We can also manage our disaster recovery plan from a single console.
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Saad Khoudali
System Administrator at Confidential
I mainly use Prism to host virtual machines.
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