Nutanix Acropolis and Vmware Vsphere Buyer'S Guide and Reviews January 2020
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Contents
Overview 13
Vendor Directory 15
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Nutanix Acropolis
PROS
Mohammed
Azzam
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting." [Full Review]
Yaganaden
Naicken
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency." [Full Review]
Shivanna
Gundanavar
Ran Givon
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance." [Full Review]
Jalila El
Ahrache
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable." [Full Review]
Gerhard
Joubert
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well." [Full Review]
Antonio
Salinas
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Nutanix Acropolis
CONS
"In terms of the IT different categories, I would like for the governing sections to be able to use it in the IT department." "If they can
have something like a one view management portal or software similar to VMware that would be an added value." [Full Review]
Mohammed
Azzam
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications." [Full Review]
Yaganaden
Naicken
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved." "We need day-to-day encrypting of the database." [Full Review]
Shivanna
Gundanavar
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform." [Full Review]
Ran Givon
"The product could be improved with more security." "The product needs a bit more experience in the market." "I think you don't
have the possibility to add other hardware." "It could be improved with the ability to add and extend." [Full Review]
Jalila El
Ahrache
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running." "If
people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit." "So I would suggest that this could
perhaps be switched." "That is so far the only change I would like." "I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double
Gerhard click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup." "That's the only thing that's a major bother to me." [Full Review]
Joubert
Antonio
Salinas
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Nutanix Acropolis
"I think it's cheaper than VMware in terms of cost." [Full Review]
Yaganaden
Naicken
"Our licensing fee on the total setup up was about R900 000." [Full Review]
Gerhard
Joubert
"Their technical support is really good." "They have been very helpful." [Full Review]
Senior9883
"The price is good but I think there is still room for improvement on the price." [Full Review]
Todd Selby
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VMware vSphere
PROS
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running." [Full Review]
Chris
Childerhose
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want
to run do maintenance." [Full Review]
Ricky Santos
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot." [Full Review]
Allan
Trambouze
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance." [Full Review]
Sree Kumar
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources." [Full Review]
Muhammad
Tanvir
Ashraf
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
[Full Review]
David Chief
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)." [Full Review]
Muljo
Witono
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VMware vSphere
CONS
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client." [Full Review]
Chris
Childerhose
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating
systems." [Full Review]
Ricky Santos
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware." [Full Review]
Allan
Trambouze
Sree Kumar
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people." [Full Review]
Muhammad
Tanvir
Ashraf
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between
consoles." [Full Review]
David Chief
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved." [Full Review]
Muljo
Witono
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VMware vSphere
"VMware is costly versus other competitors but is still one of the market leaders and expanding now with partners like AWS." [Full
Review]
Chris
Childerhose
"The license of VMware is a one-time payment and you can continue to enroll in support for troubleshooting and also administer the
licenses." [Full Review]
Ricky Santos
"The price is high, but you get back a lot." [Full Review]
Allan
Trambouze
Muhammad
Tanvir
Ashraf
"VMware does provide organizations with discounts." "The customer service license fee we got discounts on from the supplier in
order for us to get the best out of the license fees." "That's our experience." "We possibly paid less than our partner company." "The
partner is only local and not global like our firm." [Full Review]
Bunmi-Sadiq
ReviewerU8
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"It is expensive." "Other solutions on the market are free." "We had to plan with VMware how many hosts that we needed in order to
determine the price." [Full Review]
Hazem
Mohamed
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VALUABLE
FEATURES Senior9883 Bunmi-Sadiq
On-demand scaling is the most valuable feature, I The features in vSphere data recovery are
can keep on scaling on-demand. Secondly, excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server
Nutanix allows me to create my own configuration. before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I
I can create my own configuration and I can get all didn't have to use the backup to restore the VM. I
of it as per my configuration. Number three is that just used some command line tools and I was able
in Nutanix if I do three or four nodes if I look at the to restore the deleted VM. I find that fascinating.
traditional environment I have to really figure out For VM migration, I can migrate my virtual
the wave concept. Connect wave one, wave two, machines from one place to the other. vSphere
wave six, wave five. In Nutanix I don't have any of has easy integration. I have some older server
these issues. Lastly, deduplication. Deduplicatio... models. They are HP products. I have both old and
[Full Review] new server models. I... [Full Review]
I definitely find the reduced power consumption The most valuable feature is its stability. There are
very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when a lot of product enhancements that come out
one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface regularly but, generally, the stability the solution
where you talk directly to your VM from the provides is the most important to me, as I like to
present software. We have found that it is a lot go home and sleep at night. It is absolutely simple
more responsive using VMware compared to and efficient to manage. We can bring in people
Citrix. [Full Review] who have never been exposed to vSphere or
virtualized environments and they're still able to
support it from a server standpoint. The training
time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior
technic... [Full Review]
MohamedMostafa1
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IMPROVEMENTS
TO MY Senior9883 Bunmi-Sadiq
ORGANIZATION
One of the benefits this solution has had for my We have some downtime, but we can quickly
organization is the space consumption. Space recover from a disaster depending on the
consumption was reduced by approximately 40% magnitude or the extent of the disaster using
because if I had gone with another kind of vSphere. The software will recover from any
traditional, or open world solution, then I would disaster that happens. We have also reduced our
have not saved my floor space. Another way it has cost of production as well. vSphere has also
benefited my organization is because of the improved our operational productivity. We have
energy consumption. Currently, energy isolated servers that we couldn't integrate
consumption has been saved by around 30% to together, but now we can with vSphere, despite
40%. Plus the number of IOPS has increased, I'm the fact that they are different models. Where
getting the highest IOPS in Nutanix. I had s... [Full they're different physical models, different memo...
Review] [Full Review]
We are not fully in production yet and we are still We are able to increase the density of the
busy testing Nutanix. A couple of things that it virtualized servers and, with the increased density
makes a huge difference in is our company's we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory
power consumption because we don't have to use sharing. We see performance increases from
computers for all our employees. We can simply Server 2012 and forward; 2003 is debatable.
put down a Raspberry Pi or a little nook, and in the There were negligible differences in 2012 but we
Inuvika environment, everything is up and running did see benchmark performance improvement
immediately. It gives the users a lot more freedom from utilizing Hypervisor and the increased
in connection with what they usually have in a density that comes with it. [Full Review]
standard setup. With everything operating in the
cluster, th... [Full Review]
Brandon Morris
MohamedMostafa1
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ROOM FOR
IMPROVEMENT Senior9883 Bunmi-Sadiq
As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to We want to see improvement from VMware with
each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it security. We want minimal downtime. We want
would be much better for Nutanix if they built an automation. We want to deploy more efficiently. If
interface which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a there is a disaster of any kind we want to respond
VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I quickly and recover from it. With vSphere, you get
can create containers, I create clusters on to provision server resources with ease. While we
VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these like vSphere, one problem we have is saturation.
clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to For example, if I want to deploy 10 virtual
be then subverted as a parallel execution. What machines, I will have to install the operating
happens then is that I have to work in two different system one by one. I will have to install the
env... [Full Review] patches one by one, als... [Full Review]
One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift VMware has expanded, from a corporate
from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the standpoint, to where they have gotten very large. I
VM that's currently running. If people from another have noticed, in the last couple of years, the
site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of breaking apart of specific added benefits and
the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this charging license upcharges for them. That would
could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only be the only negative thing that I have to say: As a
change I would like. I would like it if they could fix large consumer of the Hypervisor, we have a hard
the instance where you double click on a VM and time justifying the cost of utilizing the extra
it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the products, especially when it's a couple of grand
only thing that's a major bother to me. [Full here and there, a couple of hundred dollars here
Review] and there. It's hard f... [Full Review]
It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in I see room for improvement in the vSphere
Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, product just a little bit. I know they are doing all
we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of that transition from the traditional fat client to the
Nutanix for billing the usage for specific new HTML5 interface. I've watched that grow from
customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud being technical previews to where it's at today,
gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix. Also, one of and it's probably 90 percent there. But I think that
the very important things that I would like to see in VMware could continue to put improvements into
Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or that UI, so that all the tasks can be performed as
not, is to have some kind of caching optimization quickly as they used to be done in the fat client.
at remote sites, to build active-active data... [Full Just yesterday, I met with the lead solutions arch...
Review] [Full Review]
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Overview
SOLUTION Nutanix Acropolis VMware vSphere
OVERVIEW Nutanix Acropolis combines feature-rich software- VMware vSphere is the leading server
defined storage with built-in virtualization in a virtualization platform with consistent
turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure solution management for virtual data centers.Deliver
that can be deployed out-of-the-box in 60 minutes business value from day one with powerful server
or less. Eliminate the need for standalone SAN or virtualization, breakthrough availability, safe
NAS-based storage, reduce the complexity of automated management and intelligent
legacy virtualization management and lower operational insight that adapts to your
virtualization costs by up to 80%. environment. Automate workload placement and
resource optimization based on preset
customizable templates.
SAMPLE AT&T, Beedie, AccorHotels, Airbus, BAE Systems Abu Dhabi Ports Company, ACS, AIA New
CUSTOMERS
Zealand, Consona, Corporate Express, CS Energy,
and Digiweb.
TOP VMware vSphere vs. Nutanix Acropolis KVM vs. VMware vSphere
COMPARISONS Compared 42% of the time Compared 23% of the time
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Question one: Does the customer already have vSphere because than I would suggest not to use Acropolis? Nutanix wants to control
the entire platform with its HCI solution like VMware. Question 2: Do you want to use NSX now or in the future? Use VMware, because
if it will be supported and it would always give issues with the integrations with Acropolis. Question 3: Is the growth of the customer
Patrick low? Then Nutanix can be a choice if it is bigger than VMware. Nutanix is not flexible in big site setups and can give big problems with
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updating.
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Vendor Directory
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54,221 views 44,825 comparisons 79 reviews 601 words/review 8.9 average rating
2 KVM
71,647 views 65,345 comparisons 10 reviews 365 words/review 8.1 average rating
3 Hyper-V
55,579 views 51,212 comparisons 27 reviews 264 words/review 8.2 average rating
4 Proxmox VE
47,738 views 41,927 comparisons 10 reviews 335 words/review 8.7 average rating
5 Oracle VM VirtualBox
41,227 views 38,117 comparisons 13 reviews 448 words/review 7.9 average rating
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6 XenServer
30,049 views 27,224 comparisons 14 reviews 367 words/review 8.4 average rating
7 Nutanix Acropolis
13,852 views 11,613 comparisons 10 reviews 624 words/review 8.8 average rating
8 Oracle VM
14,757 views 10,916 comparisons 7 reviews 344 words/review 7.6 average rating
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10,432 views 9,419 comparisons 3 reviews 352 words/review 8.3 average rating
10 Nutanix AHV
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VIEWS
1 KVM 71,647
2 Hyper-V 55,579
4 Proxmox VE 47,738
Reviews
REVIEWS
1 VMware vSphere 79
2 Hyper-V 27
3 XenServer 14
4 Oracle VM VirtualBox 13
5 KVM 10
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5 XenServer 367
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