Nutanix AHV

Score9.1 out of 10

39 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Nutanix AHV are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Use: Reviewers consistently appreciate the user-friendly interface and straightforward setup process of Nutanix AOS. Tasks such as adding new nodes are as simple as configuring an IP address and clicking a button, aligning with users' intuitive thought processes.

Performance and Efficiency: Users have emphasized Nutanix's efficiency in updating components like BIOS and BMC, showcasing its scalability, self-healing capabilities, and centralized management features that contribute to smooth operations.

Support and Resources: The availability of valuable resources like free training, helpful labs, good technical support, and OneClick Upgrade for seamless management has garnered positive feedback from users seeking reliable assistance throughout their experience with Nutanix.

Reviews

26 Reviews

Nutanix AHV Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have had an excellent experience on Nutanix AHV, which is best in migration from cross-hypervisor platform to AHV and easy to use. Nutanix AHV gives us smooth integrations and powerful management tools.

Pros

Seamless integration and simplified management interface
We can extend/increase CPU-Memory-Disk on running VMS
Quick and smooth management, with less resource utilizations with respect from any others hypervisors
Migration capabilities for cluster wise and remote zones wise
Quick deploy any kinds of images and smooth network management

Cons

Sometimes any change done, alert is showing multiple times in any one changes
Limited Hardware Compatibility
Limited Third-Party Support

Likelihood to Recommend

One of my previous roles, we switched from dell servers with nimble storage arrays over to Nutanix AHV. Nutanix actually has a contract with Dell so you can get Dell nodes rather than supermicro. I can't speak to the supermicro ones, because we deployed the Dell Nutanix nodes. Nutanix AHV support is very very good. The only annoying part about our support experiences with Nutanix was that Dell required us to engage dell, and dell would connect us to Nutanix.

Gourgopal Pradhan

Consultant in Information Technology at UCO Bank (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

Used Nutanix AHV to replace VMware

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Nutanix AHV to replace VMware and to prepare POCs of multiple apps.

Pros

It acts as a single interface to manage all activities
Provides easier recovery points
Easy to use

Cons

Storage management and recovery
Performance tuning optimization
Network troubleshooting
Kubernates and container integration

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Nutanix AHV would be helpful for small and medium enterprise businesses, for hyper-converged solutions, edge, and remote locations.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Nutanix AHV is an excellent product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I think that Nutanix AHV is an excellent product for hyper-convergence vanguard.

Pros

hyperconvergence
easy to use
simplicity

Cons

With workflow
in the vm´s
by the charge storage

Likelihood to Recommend

I give Nutanix AHV a ten out of ten because it is very reliable.

Julio C Marín

Julio marin in Engineering at GBM (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Nutanix AHV - Excellent Hypervisor, Excellent Service

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nutanix AHV is our primary on-premise hypervisor. Our day-to-day operations and nearly all virtual workloads run on Nutanix AHV. Workloads include, web servers, database workloads, virtual desktop infrastructure, application servers.Environments served: Test, Dev, QA, UAT and Production. We migrated to hyperconverged Nutanix AHV and NX hardware from ESXi on Cisco UCS and NetApp as a three-tier solution. Our business case was for datacenter modernization, datacenter footprint reduction, power and cooling savings. We were able to reduce datacenter footprint by nearly 70%.

Pros

Migates workloads from existing infrastructure to Nutanix AHV
Allows datacenter updates to be completed in a few simple clicks, administrators get some of those nights and weekends back
Products are intuitive and training is easily available and affordable

Cons

Reporting, where it has improved, can still be expanded upon
Vendor validated designs need to be expanded, this is not a Nutanix AHV issue

Likelihood to Recommend

Database workloads, virtual desktop infrastructure, general compute workloads run extremely well. Have not yet used K8s. File and storage services with Nutanix Files and Data Lens are a huge benefit.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Nutanix AHV - A Solid Enterprise Platform.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 23, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Nutanix AHV as our core hypervisor, which runs all our production workloads. We migrated from VMware due to licensing costs and end-of-life hardware, and the platform has been rock solid. We also use Nutanix Files for our user and departmental shares, Nutanix File Analytics for reporting and auditing, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, and Nutanix Leap.

Pros

Ease of management.
Rich and robust features.
Fast release cycle for new features.
Support.

Cons

Add a CD-ROM without powering down a VM.
Shutdown Nutanix Files cluster from GUI.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nutanix is well-suited for companies that want an all-in-one solution that provides modern technologies. It is also well-suited for teams that do not have dedicated admins to maintain a hypervisor cluster 24/7. However, Nutanix may not be suitable for very large organizations that still use dedicated storage backends to run their production workloads.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Nutanix AHV short review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Nutanix AOS as our core business. We are running all virtual machines based on Nutanix AOS after our migration from HyperV. So far, we have not found any downsides where it doesn't run as expected.

Pros

Great managability
Easy to see issues

Cons

Easy accessible roadmap

Likelihood to Recommend

Nutanix AOS is well suited for both small and big organizations that run virtual machines or file shares. The integration with other Nutanix products is really good.

Wouter Zijlstra

Servicedeskmedewerker in Information Technology at Egency B.V. (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Nutanix AHV OK

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 5, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I can not say enough how great Nutanix AOS is, friendly to use, easy to upgrade (1 click). We switched over from PC to convert into VDI with Nutanix AOS over a year ago, and it has been one of the best decisions we have made. Simply put, we have gone from working with a vendor to a strategic partner with Nutanix. Their customer service and responses have been fantastic!

Pros

Friendly to use
Easy to upgrade

Cons

AOS
PRism

Likelihood to Recommend

Our implementation team was great and worked with us, and got the program up and running very easily. Every time we called post-implementation, we immediately talked to an engineer, which is so unusual in dealing with companies. Everything they have promised they have fulfilled. I think their support is top-notch.

Indra Zulardi

Infrastructure Network, System and Virtualization in Information Technology at Bahrain (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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Nutanix AHV review... a good product with a rich feature set and a company going places.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started using it for a small-scale VDI and have now used it in anger for a lot more systems.

Pros

Integration of HCI with an easy intuitive CLI
Updates are straight forward
Nutanix AOS training is free, labs are helpful and makes using Nutanix AOS easy

Cons

Integration with other CLIs makes it complex to work out which CLI for which purpose is needed.
Cost... its not cheap (but you pay for what you get some times.)
We did get a dodgy set of DIMMs which require reboots, resetting, or replacing. Still getting above normal failure rates.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nutanix AOS now has a solution for most areas, especially the high end. The weak point is the entry-level, low-cost market.

Christopher Cundall

Data Centre & Infrastructure Specialist in Information Technology at Arqiva (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Nutanix AHV is a great product

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 5, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Nutanix AOS as our virtual environment located at our headquarters and at three of our remote offices. We have a six-node cluster running AHV at our HQ, and at the three remote offices, we have a one-node cluster running AHV as well.

Pros

Performance
Updating BIOS, BMC, etc. of nodes is extremely easy
Set up was straight forward
Technical support is very good

Cons

The ability to add GPU cards could be more straightforward instead of having to add via SSH
Improve the speed of updating AOS and AHV?
Allow memory and CPU to be added to a VM while it it is running

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Nutanix AOS is a great product and, I would recommend it to anyone. The only reason I did not give it a 10 out of 10 is because I don't do that for any product. Every product has room for improvement.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

It Director

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used across the organization, it provides benefits of public cloud-like agility and productivity with the low cost and control of an on-premises environment.

Pros

Easy scaling
Self-healing
Centralized management
OneClick Upgrade

Cons

Updates with zero production impact
Adding hardware resources without stopping the clusters
Mobile version support

Likelihood to Recommend

Modular virtualization
The only scenario where I would not implement it is at a site that does not have at least 3 ESX hosts and 100VMs. [In my opinion,] the cost would not be justifiable.

Hardeep Mohan

Director in Information Technology at CTS (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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