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Eric
Verified reviewer
Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2018
Prism is the hypervisor and hardware management tool of the future
I have more time now to focus on important projects and company initiatives, rather than micro managing our virtual infrastructure.
PROSPrism is feature rich and designed to be simple... and I mean really simple. Gone are the days of requiring extensive hypervisor management knowledge. One of many examples of how it outshines its competition is the ability to upgrade hosts during production without interruption or micromanaging moving VM's around.
CONSIts feature rich, but it has a ways to go to get to where some of its competitors are. It's getting there... their feature road map includes many of the advanced features you may be familiar with other products, such as DR failover planning, but they are not yet here today.
Dave
Computer Networking, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2019
A very viable alternative to 3-Tier Hosting
The ease of monitoring and maintaining your VM Environment has been greatly reduced with the use of Nutanix Prism. Whether you still use vmWare or thier built in product Acropolis to host VMs, if you can handle the price tag, it is well worth the investment.
PROSIt comes in a box ready to go. If you need to add capacity, you just add boxes. The software gives so many reports and options that someone in the vmware world would do a task and say to themselves "theres no way that is all I have to do to make that happen". But yes it is. So intuitive and clearly made by people who have to manage a VM Environment themselves.
CONSThere was a major stumbling block rolling it out, sufice to say they keep several network subnets as built it and we were unlucky enough to use one of them. Support worked around it, but it was a major headache.
Reasons for switching to AOS Distributed Storage
The load balancing and failover features made it a no brainer. I used to manage CPU, Network, and storage - now with Nutanix Prism, it is all in one place.
infant
Verified reviewer
Media Production, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
High performance storage system
Overall for the cost we have paid for this software is worth, because comparitivly this is cheaper than it's competitors.
PROSflexibility & scalability , high performance , resilency features are the most likable. The way how it shows to the hypervisor as a central storage but the data is stores locally so the response time is much faster.
CONSFew bugs like oplog issue & some others made this software to think it can be improved.
Keny
Food & Beverages, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2020
Excellent Virtualization Platform
Basically, what we really like about Nutanix is that we can make sure that our infrastructure is running in a high availability platform. Additional to that, we are able to upgrade VMs without an outage. Moreover, features like DRP are embedded
CONSUnfortunately, Nutanix by design is not supporting external devices like a Storage for Fiber channel.
Reason for choosing AOS Distributed Storage
We preferred Prism because some features like DRP are integrated.
Vineesh
Verified reviewer
Automotive, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2021
Nutanix the wonderful monster
Easy to use and work on the device which simplifies lots of work and helps to easy way to upgrade the AOS, AHV in a rolling fashion without any downtime for the user VM's. And Nutanix helps to remove all legacy hardware and consolidate all servers in a cluster with 2U of rack space.
PROSThe HCI is the best and pioneer in the market with its native AHV. It's a wonderful, simplified, converged device. Easy to use and understand and deploy very quickly. And the prism console give a simple GUI console to monitor the entire hardware infra of storage, network and compute as well as the Client VMs.
CONSNothing to like the least. I like all features and its a wonderful beast with its AHV and AOS beauty.
justin
Hospitality, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2019
Nutanix, Function not lost with form
The entire business has moved from a HPE solution to a Nutanix solution. The Prism interface is still easier to use then the rest of the competitors. Over all this software has been extremely reliable, and the support has been phenomenal.
PROSNutanix Prism interface, has nearly everything you need to manage your storage cluster. It allows for monitoring, configuration and maintenance in such an easy way directly in the GUI. It is easier to use the the major competitors, while not losing any of its function. It is an extremely functional and well laid out interface.
CONSOf the mark, Prism can be abit daunting to the un-initiated. It is very forgiving but until you get practice with it some of the processes will seem as though they are missing or do not function properly, while in fact most of the time you will be looking in the wrong stop or using the wrong tool.
Omar
Plastics, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2019
Great product for Managing your Virtual Environment
PRISM has very complete data dashboards to have a better visualization of the cluster. PRISM helps you check the health status of the cluster with a click where it tells you the steps to follow to correct warnings or problems that arise. You also have access to the administration of virtual machines, hardware, alerts, as well as the network and backups. In general, it is a very complete tool.
PROSIt is very easy to have a global view of the virtual infrastructure, with dashboards that are constantly updated, in addition to being able to manage the entire virtual environment from a single console.
CONSNutanix Is not compatible with versions of Windows Server 2003 or earlier that sometimes are used for older software, so we can't have them in Nutanix and they can't be monitored with PRISM.
Rafael Alejandro
Computer Hardware, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2018
Prism is great!!! Simplify infrastructure management
Excellent for managing updates across the platform, updates are quickly, Excellent technical support.
CONSHigh cost, is very very expensive that is the only main drawback to make it an excellent product!!!
orhangazi
Verified reviewer
Banking, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2019
Detailed analysis of your virtual environment!
It gives very detailed information about your virtual infrastructure.
CONSI did not find any negative side so far actually.
Blake
Verified reviewer
Food Production, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Overall it is complex but does not take long for an IT person to catch on to the madness
Great analysis of virtualized environment and easy management of VMs.
PROSThe analysis is incredibly in depth and the management VMs and nodes is as easy as it needs to be. Going from VMware to this is a simple jump and the hardware makes it worth while.
CONSThe alarms are a little goofy when you are have 2 different hypervisors. Licensing is also a bit goofy for specific environments.
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2018
Management through a Single console which also has redundancy
Ease of management and seamless upgrades
PROSEase of Use and the simplicity incorporates all major functionality from Hypervisor and VM management to Data protection with NearDR
CONSFew advance Features are not yet available through Prism console like VM Migration, Fault Tolerant VM, Physical-To-Virtual Migration, Etc.
Isaiah
Research, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2019
Better than Excel!
The templates are perfectly set up for direct import of data from analysis software.
CONSThere is little to no room for aesthetic modifications.
Christopher
Hospitality, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2017
Prism makes life a lot easier. Everything in one place. Very easy to get around and find things.
Having all information from reports in one place. One look glance to see my health status. Makes my over all job so much easier.
CONSThe graphs could use over hauling to look a little nicer. The graphs need some sprucing up. They lack luster.
Caitlyn
Education Management, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
A lifesaver!
My husband and I both use Prism for our bill pay. It is friendly to use on both Apple and Samsung phones, splitting bills has never been easier. Since we started using Prism, we have never been late on paying a bill and have saved so much money not paying late fees! An absolute game changer for those of us who struggle with adulting!
PROSEasy to use, helpful reminders, helps us stay on top of bills
CONSThere is nothing I didn’t like about this!