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My main use case for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)  has been around hybrid cloud governance and infrastructure lifecycle management, and I have typically looked at it from an architectural perspective, focusing on things such as centralizing operations, automations, and sometimes capacity planning, simplifying day-to-day management across the on-prem and the cloud environment. This has helped and has especially been useful for me and the organization when we want a single control plane for virtualization and cost visibility.

One of the examples was during a hybrid infrastructure modernization initiative where I had on-prem Nutanix workloads alongside Azure  resources, and what we did is we used Nutanix Cloud Manager primarily for lifecycle visibility and governance. This involved monitoring capacity, managing upgrades, and maintaining operational consistency across the clusters. From an architectural perspective, I leveraged it to standardize policies, review the resource utilizations, and help the operations teams plan upgrades while ensuring alignment with our broader cloud governance strategies.

Nutanix Cloud Manager's biggest value has been around simplifying day-to-day operations and giving teams better visibility into the hybrid environment. I have mainly used it for an architectural and governance standpoint, helping standardize lifecycle processes.

From a day-to-day perspective, the self-service automation capabilities of Nutanix Cloud Manager have helped me reduce the dependency on manual provisioning. Instead of the infrastructure teams building the environment each time, it has helped standardize blueprints and automation workflows, allowing me and my team to deploy resources in a controlled way while we still follow the governance and policies.

In our organization, we have a hybrid cloud setup where the main requirement was to have something as a private cloud to connect between our different locations. We also have some on-prem integration with Nutanix, so it is more a private cloud and to some extent a hybrid cloud.

Nutanix Cloud Manager is an intelligent operations platform. The features include self-service automation, cost governance, and centralized security visibility, which I particularly appreciate, and I appreciate how it brings hybrid cloud operations into a single control plane. Additionally, I can also get capacity forecasting, automation workflows, and financial governance without needing to use multiple tools.

Nutanix Cloud Manager has helped us by improving operational visibility and simplifying lifecycle management across cloud environments. I remember that we had 10 different locations and we wanted something for a private cloud, so it gave the teams a more centralized way to monitor capacity and automate routine tasks while maintaining governance policies without adding extra operational overhead.

One of the biggest outcomes from using Nutanix Cloud Manager is operational efficiency. With the self-service automation and centralized lifecycle visibility, routine provisioning and upgrade planning have become more streamlined, and we achieved this goal with less manpower. It also reduced the amount of manual coordination between teams, which was beneficial. In the hybrid projects, this translates into faster turnaround for environment deployments and fewer operational escalations.

The built-in playbooks of Nutanix Cloud Manager definitely help reduce the repetitive operational work and assist with tasks such as routine health checkups and lifecycle actions.

I do not have any inputs for Nutanix Cloud Manager as of now because I understand that it is a different product with different features, and I enjoy working on Nutanix.

I do not see many opportunities in the market for Nutanix. I have been working since 2018, but I hardly find any opportunities for me to work or explore more on Nutanix as of now.

I have been working since 2018.

Nutanix Cloud Manager is stable for us.

Regarding scalability, it is quite scalable because it is built to manage distributed environments through a centralized control plane. As the infrastructure grows, whether adding more clusters or workloads or hybrid cloud integration, Nutanix Cloud Manager scales by extending policy-based automation and governance across the environments.

Customer support is good.

If I compare Nutanix with Azure , I find that both are different; the concepts are similar, but I enjoy working on both platforms because they provide good learning opportunities. Nutanix is generally much easier for day-to-day operations compared to Azure or other tools, and the GUI is quite good once the environment is set up and running, which simplifies lifecycle tasks and governance. However, the initial setup and learning curve can vary based on the scenario, especially for teams coming from VMware or public cloud.

When asking about return on investment from using Nutanix Cloud Manager, the focus is more on operational efficiency rather than direct cost reduction alone. Automation and lifecycle management help the team spend less time on repetitive provisioning, health checks, and upgrade coordination, which illustrates the value Nutanix Cloud Manager brings.

The main products I have used alongside Nutanix Cloud Manager are AHV for virtualization, Prism Central for centralized management, and Flow for network security and micro-segmentation. These products integrate well with Nutanix Cloud Manager in our operations, and I have seen value in their use and integration.

We use Azure alongside our hybrid or private cloud setup.

Nutanix is good. I have enjoyed working on Nutanix, and as a technical professional, I find it interesting to explore something new, and it has been beneficial for me.

I did not handle the purchase; it was done by the company I am working for, so I am not aware of the marketplace or the procurement process.

Nutanix Cloud Manager did make things noticeably faster for my team with its low-code automation.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)  is very easy to use. If you want to learn about Nutanix products, it is very easy to access the information. On university.nutanix.com, you can learn about Nutanix and their operations-related training. They have substantial training available on their website.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)  has positively impacted my organization. I am using it for my Citrix infrastructure. With Nutanix HCI , it is benefiting me in terms of IOPS. I am not experiencing much latency for the IOPS, and the performance is also much better than older traditional infrastructure solutions.

I have been using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for the last four years. It is a very good product for virtualization and HCI , which is basically a hyper-converged solution they provide.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a suite of tools for the Nutanix product. You can deploy your virtual machines, analyze them, and protect them with DR. You can also create a self-service portal. Basically, it is a competitor to VMware. Right now, because Nutanix has its own hypervisor, which is AHV, it is pretty competitive with VMware nowadays.

Using these features in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) reduces time in my daily operations. If you were doing some VM deployment manually, you do not have to worry about deploying it yourself. You can create recipes that function as infrastructure as code where you can do the coding, and it will provide the self-service portal to the customer. They can just mention what CPU they want, RAM they want, and what flavor of OS they want. Then, based on approval, it gets automatically deployed in the Nutanix cluster.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is more than just a management tool for daily use. If you try it, it is a very nice product. You do not have to worry about how a virtual machine is getting built or how to manage it. It simplifies the management because it has Prism Central and Prism Element for management. For patching, you do not have to worry. Nutanix has its own patching portal, LCM, where you can do the patching of the hypervisor, HCI, and firmware. Everything gets managed by Prism Central and Prism Element, so you do not have to go anywhere or worry about the process. If you want any detail about how you should go with the patching or what version you should consider before patching, it is very well explained in their portal at portal.nutanix.com. They have all the details there, including libraries and documentation, so it is very simple. Anyone with basic knowledge can deploy and manage it.

The best features Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) offers include two options. One is NCI, which is Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, and the second is NCM, Nutanix Cloud Manager. In the cloud infrastructure, you will get your hypervisor as AHV, then AOS  as a software application, and you can manage the on-premises data center by yourself. But in NCM, you will get a bunch of software including Nutanix Calm, Nutanix Era , Nutanix Objects, and many other bundles they have in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). You can easily manage your day-to-day data center operations. If you have any issue with the VM or with the host, you can easily analyze it with the application provided by Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM).

Using NCM's low-code automation has made many things faster for my team. It is a really nice product. Using NCM's built-in playbooks has freed up time for my IT team to focus on other tasks or projects. Because many things have gotten automated, my team is more focused on other things rather than just the day-to-day operations.

I do not have anything to add about improvements for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) based on my experience. I choose nine out of ten for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) because I would expect some improvement. There are chances for improvement, and that is my assumption.

I have been using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for the last four years.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is very stable.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)'s scalability is very convenient. For example, if you want to add more servers, more disks, or anything else, you can do it very easily. It will not impact your current setup. If you have a two-node cluster in your environment but you want to add two or three more, they have the cluster expansion feature. With that, you can do it without any downtime or affecting your current setup.

Customer support for Nutanix is also pretty good. You just have to create the ticket on portal.nutanix.com with your severity, P1, P2, or P3. Depending on that, they will check your case and contact you as soon as possible.

I previously used VMware. We were using VMware over the Cisco FlexPod, where we were using the Cisco UCS server with NetApp storage. It was basically a traditional setup with VMware.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Nutanix is that the licensing is much easier and more flexible than any other competitor available in the market. Many competitors in the market right now are moving from their current hypervisor to Nutanix because it is easy to use and they have very competitive pricing compared to any other solution.

Before choosing Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), we evaluated other options, including many POCs such as Dell VxRail , but we went with Nutanix. We found it very promising and more convenient for us.

Nutanix Files is basically for creating Windows-based file servers. In Nutanix, you do not have to worry about it. It will create it by itself and make a replica of itself. It is managed by itself. If any VM of that file server goes down, it will not matter because there will be two or three more copies of the VM handling that file server.

Nutanix Objects is the same as an AWS  S3  bucket. You will get that facility in Nutanix Objects. Other products Nutanix offers include Nutanix Database, and Nutanix Carbon is basically a Nutanix Kubernetes  solution. There are many things you can consider. It is a bunch of software you can utilize for your infrastructure and for the application.

The backup solutions and the snapshots are also managed by Nutanix. It has the near-sync, async, and the metro availability feature, which can help you with the backup and recovery of the VM based on your needs. Metro availability is taking the snapshot in real-time. Async is five-minute data, and near-sync is nearly a one-minute delay on the sync of data. It depends on you what you want and how you want to utilize the services.

Right now, I cannot give the details about specific metrics because it is on a real-time basis. But you can absolutely see the result if you move to HCI and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) rather than the older VMware traditional options.

Right now, in my current organization, I am not using any other Nutanix product. However, I have worked on Nutanix Objects, Files, and Nutanix Carbon. It is good. If you want to go with Nutanix, they have two models of licensing: NCI, which you can use if you just want to deploy your infrastructure and run the VMs without any additional automation. You can go with NCI. But if you want the new automation, the analysis, and a more detailed use of the other Nutanix features, then you have to go with NCM. They have a very simple licensing setup.

I would advise others looking into using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) that it is very competitive in the market. They have been in the market for the last ten to fifteen years, and it is a very good product. They have a very good history with virtualization and management. My review rating for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is nine out of ten.

We use Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)  because we manage a multi-hybrid, multi-cloud environment, with some workloads on-premises, some workloads on Azure  Cloud, some on AWS  Cloud, and some on GCP Cloud, so that is where our use case is for managing a complete hybrid multi-cloud platform, and we use Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)  as the management platform for that.

What I appreciate most about Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is that it provides centralized management and automation, offering a unified platform to manage services across multiple clouds, reducing tool sprawl and simplifying complex infrastructure tasks. The single-click operations are best, offering simple one-click upgrade and scalability for the infrastructure, which significantly increases operational efficiency. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) gives us basically a single pane of glass for management.

Next would be cost optimization and visibility with robust tools for cost metering, budgeting, and identifying underutilized resources, helping to optimize costs as well as the usage of the product and resources. It also includes intelligent operations offering machine learning-driven self-tuning, application discovery, and advanced reporting to enhance performance. Finally, there is security and compliance, providing robust security, including network planning and regulatory compliance monitoring.

We see the benefits of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) immediately, particularly with unified multi-cloud management as a true single pane of glass across on-premises and public clouds, which includes AWS  and Azure . As we experienced their customer support over time, we found it to be very superior with a consistent high level of customer satisfaction. The simplicity and speed of deployment are much faster and easier compared to other solutions we have used. On the cost management side, we realized it has a stronger ROI, being very cost-effective, with pricing models beneficial for multi-cloud environments, quantifying to a 425% three-year return on investment, a 21% higher developer productivity, and 88% less planned downtime.

Some downsides of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) are that it has very high cost and licensing complexity, particularly for smaller environments, making it more suited for larger environments. On the learning curve and support, while Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is user-friendly in some areas, the initial setup is complex and sometimes requires very specialized expertise, creating a steep learning curve. There is also limited third-party integration, as it has very limited non-native integrations compared to competitors. The documentation has gaps, particularly for advanced features, requiring some improvement, and certain advanced configurations and troubleshooting still require heavy reliance on the command-line interface rather than having a GUI.

I have been working with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for around one year.

I have not seen any lagging, crashing, or downtime.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is hugely scalable, and that is one of the biggest advantages of the product.

I have contacted Nutanix customer support. Both the speed and quality of the support I have experienced are fantastic.

It took us more than a month to fully set up Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for the first time, but after we became familiar with the product, we started using it and seeing how it helps us.

One person cannot do the deployment; we definitely need a team.

We see the benefits of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) immediately, particularly with unified multi-cloud management as a true single pane of glass across on-premises and public clouds, which includes AWS and Azure. As we experienced their customer support over time, we found it to be very superior with a consistent high level of customer satisfaction. The simplicity and speed of deployment are much faster and easier compared to other solutions we have used. On the cost management side, we realized it has a stronger ROI, being very cost-effective, with pricing models beneficial for multi-cloud environments, quantifying to a 425% three-year return on investment, a 21% higher developer productivity, and 88% less planned downtime.

In my current field, I have been working for more than 30 years. In my experience comparing Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) with other cloud management solutions, I find it far ahead in terms of the functionality it offers as compared to its competitors, both in ease of management and the way it makes things extremely easy with a single pane of glass to manage. Its main advantages are ease of use, automation, and cost-effectiveness, also offering unified control across private and public clouds. It has superior support with a Net Promoter  Score of over 90. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is very simple to deploy and has comprehensive native integrations, often outperforming niche or complex solutions on cost efficiency when compared to competitors like VMware Cloud Foundation , ServiceNow ITOM , Azure Arc , AWS Outposts , or Google Distributed Cloud .

The playbooks, often referred to as X-Play, have been very useful, really freeing up a lot of our time, making it the right strategy to enhance their product and make it more user-friendly. These playbooks provide a low-code and no-code automation engine within Prism Central, streamlining routine IT tasks and auto-remediating issues. They use triggers such as alerts, manual, and time-based to initiate actions such as VM management, third-party notifications, or scripts. Various features within their playbooks that we have used include trigger types that are alert-based, where, for example, if your VM memory usage crosses 70%, you can set a threshold value, again manual or time-based. Over 30 native actions are available, including VM power operations, snapshot management, and script execution. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) playbooks support integration with REST APIs, allowing connection with external tools such as ServiceNow , Jira , or Ansible . Use cases we have applied include auto-remediation, such as automatically adding memory to a VM if it hits a utilization alert, automated maintenance to start or stop AWS EC2  instances based on a schedule, alerting to send notifications to Slack when a new VM is created, and playbooks can be imported, exported, and monitored via the Plays tab to track execution history.

I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.

I have been working with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)  for approximately three years. I work as a multi-cloud architect and solution architect on several different OEM products within the cloud and virtualization space. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)  initially launched in 2022, and I have been working with the product since 2023.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) provides automation capability in multi-cloud management, automation, and security with different use cases depending on the organization. The product has different capabilities including self-service capabilities, blueprinting, and compliance, which we utilize.

Feature-wise, the self-service capabilities are quite improved from the initial version and provide governance and visibility of Google Cloud  and Azure . Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Playbook helps us orchestrate operations and reach the desired state, which is very helpful. The low-code automation allows us to manage VMs, remediate alerts, and handle day-to-day tasks with playbooks, enabling intelligent operations.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) has the capability for cost optimization and analysis, which helps us scale workload and perform cost assessment and optimization. This is a great feature available in the product.

When comparing Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) with other competitive portfolio products, there is some lack of capabilities. When compared with VMware Aria from an automation perspective, it lacks some CI/CD integration capabilities and integration of CI/CD pipelines.

The user interface could be improved. The UI should be more cosmetic and visually distinct, as sometimes it is very similar to other Nutanix platforms.

Stability-wise, there are no issues. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a very good, well-known, and safely launched tool. I have not found any crash, legacy, or latency issues. The product is completely reliable.

Regarding speed and quality, I would rate the quality at five out of five on the largest scale. Support-wise, I would rate it around 4.5 for speed because sometimes it depends on the issue. If there is a P1 or P2 issue, the timeline will change. Support-wise, I would rate it 4.5 for speed, and the quality of support is five out of five.

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is very easy from a deployment perspective because it comes with the SaaS service. It is completely SaaS-based, which makes it very easy for deployment and allows for a quick start. A fast start is achievable with this product.

For deployment and day-zero, day-one, and day-two operations, around two to three people are required. This may include a system admin, and it depends on how much Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is utilized. Two people is sufficient for operating and managing the product from an operations perspective.

There are a couple of cloud management solutions apart from Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). The most competitive would be Aria automation and the Aria Suite from VMware. Nutanix is launching Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for managing hybrid cloud management environments and performing cloud management.

The low-code automation speed-wise is satisfactory. When doing an apple-to-apple comparison with other automation tools, it is quite good on the Nutanix side.

It depends on deployment. If using SaaS-based deployment, it does not require any management from the organization. If using VM-based deployment, it will require management as per VM-level operations, such as upgrades.

I am not a direct customer of Nutanix. I manage customers who have a Nutanix environment as a managed service provider. Some of our clients have Nutanix clusters, and some have VMware clusters, which we manage as a managed service provider.

We are not a partner with Nutanix, so we do not sell the product, but we suggest it based on the use case of the customer. If a client comes to us with a requirement for automation or management, we will facilitate a tailored solution and recommend it. However, the purchasing and cost are handled by the authorized Nutanix partners who are aligned with that particular customer.

I would rate this product nine out of ten overall.