Azure Stack HCI vs. Nutanix AHV

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Stack HCI
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers hyperconverged infrastructure solutions via Azure Stack HCI. Azure Stack HCI provides a variety of preferred hardware solutions for building a hybrid cloud infrastructure, allowing the user to run virtual machines on hyperconverged systems and use Windows Admin Center to connect to Azure for cloud services.
$29
per month
Nutanix AHV
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Nutanix AHV is presented as a modern and secure virtualization platform that powers VMs and containers for applications and cloud-native workloads on-premises and in public clouds. Its tools and automated workflows simplify the day-to-day administration of VMs and containers.N/A
Pricing
Azure Stack HCINutanix AHV
Editions & Modules
Developer
$29.00
per month
Standard
$100.00
per month
Professional Direct
$1000.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Stack HCINutanix AHV
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Azure Stack HCI
Chose Azure Stack HCI
We can deploy the application into windows and Linux virtual machines in the datacentre, Azure service. It provides the latest security, performance, and hybrid capabilities, which now include Azure Arc enablement and new management scenarios through the Azure portal. GPU …
Nutanix AHV
Chose Nutanix AHV
Easy to understand and friendly
Chose Nutanix AHV
Overall market share, reputation and innovation drove us to Nutanix AHV over the other options.
Chose Nutanix AHV
We left VMware due to the price alone, and we have no regrets. Nutanix has been a reliable and efficient platform.
Chose Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AOS makes the basic operations (adding recourses and performing updates) a lot easier.
Chose Nutanix AHV
50/50, not much in it, to be honest. Nutanix AOS wins on the support, training, and certification ease but Dell / EMC has the name and integration support with its other products (e.g., Nutanix not supporting Networkers hot add mode).
Chose Nutanix AHV
By far, in my opinion, Nutanix AOS is heads above VMware. From the creation of a VM to updating the nodes themselves, Nutanix AOS is so much easier, faster, and just an overall better product. I would choose Nutanix AOS over VMware any day.
Chose Nutanix AHV
VMware ESXi has been around much longer and because of this is much more fully featured. However, on the flip side, it then makes Nutanix AOS much less complicated to operate. Nutanix AOS online support (and knowledge base articles) are very well written and comprehensive. …
Chose Nutanix AHV
Nutanix [AOS] is a hyper-converged solution, and in the vSphere it was originally designed for the use of SAN, although they also have a hyper-converged solution. But the architecture and load testing showed the inconsistency of the hyper-converged solution from VMware.
Chose Nutanix AHV
Nutanix [AOS] is the preference as it has good management tools but may be a bit more costly.
Chose Nutanix AHV
The simplicity of the license means no need for a new storage array and hardware. Gartner report.
Chose Nutanix AHV
Nutanix is faster and easier, and more reliable than HPE SimpliVity.
Chose Nutanix AHV
As mentioned before I feel that Nutanix meets or exceeds the capabilities of the competition, where that is in ease of use, how well they support their platform, upgrading software, migrating VM's from another hypervisor to Nutanix or simply moving VM's between one Nutanix …
Chose Nutanix AHV
VMWare is too complex to run in compare to Nutanix
Chose Nutanix AHV
Ease of use and better support to the business.
Chose Nutanix AHV
Nutanix AOS is far superior to VMware. Both in cost and performance.
Chose Nutanix AHV
Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer), VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View) and VMware ESXi
Chose Nutanix AHV
Our experience was good with VMware, but much more and on another level with Nutanix.

Chose Nutanix AHV
There are other clustering solutions, to be sure. And there are significantly less expensive solutions for preventing downtime, such as Hyper-V replication, which is what I was using before Nutanix. But Nutanix is in the upper-right of the Gartner magic quadrant for …
Chose Nutanix AHV
VxRail was more expensive and used a different storage algorithm that we didn't find to be most efficient .
Chose Nutanix AHV
We looked at both Simplivity and Cisco Hyperflex. Both are pretty good in their own right. Simplivity was very 'efficient' in the way they handled data, but we didn't like the idea of a propitiatory hardware card. Cisco's Hyperflex was our second choice, but we were so …
Features
Azure Stack HCINutanix AHV
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Azure Stack HCI
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Ratings
Nutanix AHV
8.9
Ratings
9% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
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Enterprises
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Stack HCINutanix AHV
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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10.0
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Usability
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
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8.9
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Support Rating
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Stack HCINutanix AHV
Likelihood to Recommend
It will be effective for an organization that is planning to deploy the application on the cloud and as well as on-premise. Organizations planning to work on hybrid-based can go for it blindly If looking for security it's an ultimate solution, being it is hybrid-based security is well enhanced.
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[Nutanix AOS] is good when you need easy scaling and high reliability. The good architecture of the solution allows to solve the tasks set for the platform. This solution allows to reduce the number of personnel serving the infrastructure due to the ease of management and a good knowledge base. As a disadvantage, I would attribute the complexity of customizing some types of loads to optimal work on DFS, for example, high-load databases.
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Pros
  • Azure Stack HCI operating system
  • Windows Admin Center
  • Hyper-V-based compute resources
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  • One component to support both compute and storage needs for virtualization.
  • Easy expandable as business needs arise both at the node level and larger with blocks.
  • Well outlined interface with good historical data.
  • API tools are available to obtain logging information from Nutanix that can be used with other monitoring tools such as Splunk.
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Cons
  • Interruptions are there when the connection is low.
  • Improvement needed on Integration feature.
  • A lot of issues were faced while implementing.
  • Documentation should be clear and straightforward.
  • Improvement needed on Documentation.
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  • Management of VMs on AHV take some getting used to. It's just a list of VMs that are displayed, and you search through it. Not the normal folder structure that I'm used to in VMware.
  • Also can't disable a NIC card in a VM in AHV. Very handy feature present in VMware.
  • Larger workloads may have to be tweaked to get the performance you need/want.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We made a huge financial investment with this platform (four clusters, all-flash storage array), so we're in it for the long haul. Luckily it's a beast. I've had to use support more than any other platform I've administered, but the help has been very good. Nutanix continues to add features and innovations which increase the ROI
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Usability
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Nutanix Prism Element and Prism Central are easy-to-use HTML5-based web consoles. The layout makes sense; you're only a few clicks away from getting to where you need to be. The AHV hypervisor is integrated into the platform for a fast and seamless experience. Rich data on VM metrics is also available.
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Performance
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The performance is very impressive. I am used to VMware and the snapshots were taking 10 minutes. The first time I had to restore from a snapshot on Nutanix it took 5 seconds and I couldn't believe it. Everything done on the server is fast. Powering on VM is done in seconds compared.to what we were using before.
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Support Rating
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Our first support ticket to Nutanix was responded to within 10 minutes of submission. That was kind of impressive. They have worldwide support so that when a support request is created, support is acknowledged in a relative short amount of time.
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Alternatives Considered
We can deploy the application into windows and Linux virtual machines in the datacentre, Azure service. It provides the latest security, performance, and hybrid capabilities, which now include Azure Arc enablement and new management scenarios through the Azure portal. GPU enablement and maximizing performance of we can go virtual desktop infrastructure.
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By far, in my opinion, Nutanix AOS is heads above VMware. From the creation of a VM to updating the nodes themselves, Nutanix AOS is so much easier, faster, and just an overall better product. I would choose Nutanix AOS over VMware any day.
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Return on Investment
  • The upside is the integration feature.
  • Pricing is a little higher.
  • When compared with another platform, Azure Stack HCI is performing/ functioning brilliantly.
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  • It is a highly redundant solution
  • Nutanix [AOS] provides a simple easy to manage HCI platform with a reduced TCO and an increased ROI
  • Centralized management solution of consolidated sever and storage solution in a virtualized environment which minimizes wastage of valuable resourses
  • Offers businesses the agility and flexibility to run other virtualized platforms on the Nutanix environment
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