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    Vijaykumar Talreja

Centralized multi-cloud management has simplified automation and boosted operational efficiency

  • February 08, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

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 is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

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

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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

How are customer service and support?

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

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

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.

What about the implementation team?

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

What was our ROI?

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.

What other advice do I have?

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.


    Ankit Gupta.

Automation has transformed multi‑cloud operations and now delivers cost optimization and governance

  • February 06, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

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.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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.

How are customer service and support?

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.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

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.

What about the implementation team?

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.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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.

What other advice do I have?

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.


    NISHANTPANCHAL

Unified infrastructure management has simplified automation, monitoring, and multi-tenant control

  • February 05, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

I am selling Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). Before, it was a Prism Pro license and the cluster was AOS. NCM has been the offering for the last three or four years, and I have been selling it as a product for the last seven or eight years.

For cluster management, operation, reporting, alerting, cluster runway and forecasting, there are many use cases including multi-tenancy, storage management, and compute management. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) serves as a single pane of glass to manage the entire infrastructure. You can manage everything from there without needing to depend on multiple consoles, which effectively eliminates many silos.

For low-code automations, we use Runbook and configure several runbooks. We have been quite satisfied with the results.

In challenging customer scenarios, low-code solutions or infrastructure as code are still not widely adopted by many customers. Frankly speaking, they do not have a requirement for it. They have sufficient IT staff and their changes are not dynamic or at that scale. Some customers are using these features and are quite happy with them. It has been able to reduce operation time at a certain level. Specifically for nighttime activities, such as VM memory spikes, these runbooks are capable of increasing memory on the fly without any human intervention.

We are using many Nutanix products. We are using data at rest, advanced replication, NUS. We are now deploying Nutanix NKP and also evaluating it. We are using NDB and Nutanix Files. We are using most of the products offered by Nutanix.

What is most valuable?

The setup is very straightforward, and licensing is also very clear to understand. If I compare it with VMware vCenter, VMware vCenter now seems outdated. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) has a new design and is easy to navigate. It feels as though you are working on a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

There is no complexity. It is very straightforward. You simply download Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and deploy it. You just configure your IP address and one to two hours is sufficient to use it.

Price-wise, if I compare Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) with VMware vCenter, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is cheaper and has similar or more offerings than VMware vCenter.

At the moment, we are satisfied with the automation provided in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM).

What needs improvement?

When it comes to integration with Terraform, there is still a lot of improvement needed. Specifically for infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, there are many areas where improvement is needed.

I want to highlight one area specifically: one feature for the MSP model. I want complete rebranding of Nutanix. For example, I want to build my own console where my customers can log in and create their own tenant. From the admin side, I can allocate them certain CPU, memory, and storage, and they can manage their resources but not through Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). It should be a totally separate product. The challenge I am currently having is offering cloud services using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). Many customers have their tenant, but the problem is that on the same console with the admin account, I am managing the entire infrastructure. On the same console, customers are logging in with their accounts with limited permissions. The challenge from the security side is that it is a risk because both are logging in on the same IP address. We need a separate setup for a tenant, specifically for MSP.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for the last seven or eight years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There is no complexity with stability. It is very straightforward.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a scalable product.

How are customer service and support?

Support is really good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Price-wise, I am satisfied because as a partner, whatever Nutanix offers price-wise is acceptable to me. However, what is happening now is that very small SMBs or small companies are slowly removing Nutanix because of the renewal cost. In the last six months, I had one customer to whom I sold Nutanix five years ago. When renewal was due, the price was too high, so they migrated everything back to three-tier infrastructure, such as standard Hyper-V servers and storage.

How was the initial setup?

Setup is very straightforward, and licensing is also very clear to understand. It is easy, and troubleshooting-wise it is also easy to manage.

What about the implementation team?

We are utilizing oversubscription features and CPU oversubscription features, and we are selling these to customers.

What was our ROI?

In our case, we are making good money because we operate as an MSP.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Price-wise, if I compare Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) with VMware vCenter, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is cheaper and has similar or more offerings than VMware vCenter.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

VMware vCenter

What other advice do I have?

I have been selling Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). Before, it was a Prism Pro license and the cluster was AOS. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) has been the offering for the last three or four years. I have also reviewed NVIDIA reference architecture. I would rate this product an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?


    Vishnu Mohan

Unified cloud management has improved capacity planning and supports faster AI-driven insights

  • January 16, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) serves as our single pane of glass to manage our resources for both our on-premises and cloud deployments of Nutanix.

What is most valuable?

Since I started using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), the best features I have noticed are similar capabilities to what we had with VMware vRealize Manager, which allowed us to manage our environments and growth capacity requirements for the future.

Faster outcomes are important for our organization because all IT leadership wants AI adoption and our ability to detect and predict anomalies, so it is crucial that we can quickly generate that data through this platform.

What needs improvement?

In terms of room for improvement in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), while the product has a lot of automation capabilities, the knowledge to do that does not seem to exist with our system integrators, such as Indian IT companies like TCS and Infosys, so perhaps they need to conduct more knowledge-sharing sessions with integration partners to help us at Philips take maximum advantage.

Using the built-in playbooks with Nutanix has not freed up time for our IT, as while the feature exists, the knowledge seems to be lacking with our integration partners.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for almost one year.

How are customer service and support?

My experiences with Nutanix technical support have been quite good; they are helpful and responsive.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I switched from VMware to Nutanix because it was a management decision not to continue with Broadcom after VMware was taken over by Broadcom.

How was the initial setup?

Regarding deployment, we did our deployments in partnership with Microsoft and Nutanix Professional Services, and it involved directly running the scripts and making it happen, which was not very difficult.

The process of deployment took us less than a week to set up the environment.

What about the implementation team?

Approximately four people were involved in the deployment from our side.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

In terms of finance, using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is cost-wise comparable to what we would have paid Broadcom if we had continued with VMware solution, as it did not come at an increased cost; however, I do not think there are any savings as such.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

When comparing Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) versus other cloud management solutions, I find that setup and ease of use are there, but it is only capable of managing a Nutanix environment, so it is not really comparable with other cloud management solutions.

What other advice do I have?

My overall experience in my field is extensive; I have been working for 25 years in IT.

I would assess Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) as having the features to help our team address our current automation needs, though there is a learning curve for the people to get started using it.

I am quite happy with the outcomes we have received using Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) so far.

Faster outcomes are important for our organization because all IT leadership wants AI adoption and our ability to detect and predict anomalies, so it is crucial that we can quickly generate that data through this platform.

My overall experience with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is an eight because I am not able to fully utilize its capabilities. I would rate this review as eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?


    Juliano Lommez

Easy to use and reduces public cloud costs through streamlined management

  • September 24, 2025
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

The main use case for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is to create a hybrid cloud experience. It serves as a turnkey solution where we can add management features to get the same experience we have with an NCM Nutanix product on-premises, even if we run Nutanix in the public cloud.

I work for an IT distributor where we sell products for virtualization and data centers, with Nutanix being our main solution for this kind of business. We resell Nutanix for other companies from various industries or markets in Brazil.

What is most valuable?

The setup of Nutanix is very easy. The overall complexity of the solution is much less, and it's a solution that provides freedom of choice. We can run Nutanix on any cloud, on any hardware with any hypervisor.

The cost governance features of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) are some of the most important features in this solution. We have features that help customers spend less on public cloud infrastructure. We have the observability of these costs, attribute quotas or chargeback policies, and with this kind of cost management, the expenditure of IT infrastructure in the public cloud could be significantly less so that the return on investment can be very relevant to companies that spend substantial money with the public cloud.

The console of the Nutanix solution has various reports that we can fulfill and use a SaaS-like solution for Nutanix that allows us to input our expenditure profiles of the public clouds and then compare that with the cost that we might have with the on-premise solutions.

What needs improvement?

The main area that could be improved with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is the cost. This is a license that we can use as a complement for the NCI product, which is the main product of Nutanix. Here in Brazil, we have a total cost of ownership based on the NCI, and sometimes the NCM additions make the product a little higher when we compare it with the public clouds. We are much cheaper when we compare with the Broadcom vCloud solution, but not as competitive when we compare with AWS or Google when these kinds of solutions are built into the platform.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have worked for about 10 years with the Nutanix portfolio: NCM, NCI, and NUS.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

These solutions are already deployed in a high availability way with load balancing. Any problem with these machines does not compromise the structure of what we have built within. The solution has very high availability with no problems.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

In terms of scalability, it is really high. The threshold is not about NCM; it's the size of your on-premises or cloud infrastructure. As long as your AWS or public cloud workloads can grow, the solution is already set up to manage it.

How are customer service and support?

I would rate their customer service with Nutanix a nine out of ten. The support of the Nutanix team is great. The complexity of the matters might make it slightly lower, but even then, this is higher than the average of the market.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have never used a similar solution in my company. I have only studied the solution from Broadcom.

How was the initial setup?

The deployment of the Nutanix solution is instantaneous. These solutions are packaged in the Nutanix Prism Central that is a piece of software already deployed in the cluster. It requires only the setup of the policies that we want to have, the creation of the playbooks that we're interested in, and the setup of the cost profiles and the quotas or the project. The setup is already done when we deploy the Prism Central solution, which is a main managed solution for this kind of cluster.

What was our ROI?

Using NCM's built-in playbooks has freed up time for my IT team. We have saved more than 50% of the time. We can create the experience of scale-out and elasticity that we have in the public cloud, provide this to on-premises solutions, and it saves lots of time in micromanagement of the VM profiles.

What other advice do I have?

Regarding the speed of outcomes from their low-code automation, some companies have longer cycles of deployment of applications of infrastructure, and time is money. Once we can deploy large solutions with CI/CD solutions and integrate a DevOps-like flow of production, we can reduce this time and accelerate the value of the solution for the infrastructure. Nutanix gives that with the turnkey solution. We do not have the complexity to assemble a CI/CD solution with open-source solutions or multiple products. This is a complete flow of work for DevOps, integrated even with the Kubernetes or containers infrastructures that can accelerate this kind of deployment significantly, varying with the profile of the company that utilizes it. My company is not a development company, so this does not have this kind of value since we do not develop, but I can see the value that this feature has for companies that build software in-house.

I would rate Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) a nine out of ten.


    Bhavin Mehta

Delivers accurate support and automates multi-location cost management with flexible playbook solutions

  • September 22, 2025
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

My use case or my client's use case focuses on multi-location cost governance, multi-cluster management, and cost governance. In the case of low-code automation, we have certain customers who are specifically using that, and for that detailed use case, we need to take concurrence from the end customer.

What is most valuable?

The best features in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) would vary from case to case. The good features include support, which has always been 100% accurate from Nutanix, and they provide a very nice response with the various product portfolios. In NCM, we get operational automation along with cloud visibility, a part of a single VM, blueprints, playbooks, cost governance, network security planning, and all, which are the most things we are blessed to be a part of NCM.

From a playbook's point of view, it is very helpful for triggering our equations, booting out if-and-but rules and regulations, creating multiple numbers of VMs that could be created with a timeline on the start date and end date, and automating project-wise mapping along with cost governance, which makes sense for automation within a playbook.

For recommending the product, it would give long-lasting forecasting along with the blueprint, playbook, and SQL management, which is the reason to consider it for customer recommendation; however, a customer with a multi-location who doesn't want to go with a central console of management might refuse centralized management, but there is no such point we will consider as a reason not to be in a reference.

What needs improvement?

In Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), there are no features that have room for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have seven to eight years of experience working with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM).

How are customer service and support?

I would rate Nutanix support a 10 out of 10.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

When comparing Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) with other cloud management solutions, the major key point is how we will achieve proficiency about the data. In comparing NCM with other solutions, there would be Ariba and some VMware competitors that are using analytics, which should be considered in the comparison. Whatever the functions and features provided with NCM, and by doing a proof of concept, how they achieve it from an organizational perspective, makes a right benchmark for that, but it varies from customer to customer, so I cannot comment on what rating or number it would be, as it would be based on the features that the competitor has provided. The pricing is not cheap; it is based on how a customer would adopt it, and there are various flavors, so I cannot comment if it is cheaper or on the higher side, as it is based on the feature the customer is looking for, with the price point of view coming from that.

What other advice do I have?

There would be customization possible based on the case study pointer and how a customer looks forward from a product point of view; in consideration of how our competition is speaking, they might need to club the licensing portion to meet customer requirements. I have rated Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) a 10 out of 10.


    Roger Costa

Has improved deployment speed and simplified design planning for multiple enterprise environments

  • September 11, 2025
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for big enterprises in Brazil, including Sebrae, the Minister of Brazil, and three local agencies in Brasília; we have 10 or 11 customers installed.

What is most valuable?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is easy to use. Last week, I studied the history of Nutanix, the principles, and KVM. It is simple, usable, and intuitive for me. NCM is easier to use, especially for layout. NCM does the best with the architecture of the CVM because one CVM for each node makes it more distributed and improves usability, offering more technical improvement compared to other vendors. NCM is very fast, as my implementation team appreciates it because it's fast to deploy.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is stable. I do not receive emails about releases or new versions, indicating that the solution is solid and safe with very good security.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I find the scalability quite easy; I only need to add a license for the core and install the new node for GPU, storage, processing, and memory.

How are customer service and support?

I cannot rate Nutanix support since I never contacted them, but I have only heard good things from my team.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have past experiences with vSphere and vCenter, which I had difficulty with. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is much easier to use, and I appreciate its graphical interface and colors.

How was the initial setup?

The deployment process is easy.

What about the implementation team?

It's important for us that deployment is fast and easy because my team has all the certifications for deploying Nutanix, and the steps are very easy to understand.

What was our ROI?

It saves time for implementation and deployment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) pricing is reasonable, especially compared to VMware and other solutions that are more expensive. It's less expensive than competitors such as Broadcom.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I use AWS and GCP, but I have also used VCF for VMware and vCenter, which is similar to NCM.

What other advice do I have?

Regarding installation or configuring, I only work in design, specifically with Sizer and quotation nodes; that's my focus.

The documentation is easy to search for; it's the bible of Nutanix, and I find it pretty good. I haven't used the documentation in my local language, Portuguese, because my English needs improvement, so I use it only in English. My team uses it in Portuguese because some technical people lack expertise in English.

Everything is satisfactory. We are Platinum Partners with Nutanix.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) a ten because it's very easy to use.


    Kumargaurav Kadam

Offers centralized management, cost-effectiveness, and scalability

  • August 24, 2025
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

The use cases are related to infrastructure migration from VMware to Nutanix. I have exposure to the Dell XC series, which has a Nutanix hypervisor installed. It consists of containers along with the Nutanix infrastructure using Dell hardware.

What is most valuable?

The licensing is much cheaper than other competitors such as VMware, Cisco UCS, or Microsoft Hyper-V for on-premises data centers. It is very user-friendly and can be managed through Prism Central, a centralized console that allows management of multiple clusters.

Due to the recent conversion from VMware to Broadcom, Broadcom has increased their prices five times the existing rates. Most customers are transferring to Nutanix infrastructure because it is scalable, reliable, and performance-focused. The main differentiator from competitors is its cost-effectiveness, and customers have been running and upgrading their technologies for 10 to 15 years. In terms of client satisfaction, performance, upgrades, or protection against ransomware attacks and vulnerabilities, they are regularly releasing patches and upgrading the system. These activities contribute to customer satisfaction and differentiate them from competitors.

What needs improvement?

Nutanix needs more cloud collaborations.There are many cloud providers currently available. Integration with the Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Unified Storage or Nutanix cloud platform should be improved for better containerization. This is a major drawback in configuration. Other competitors are developing solutions such as VMware on AWS, VMware on Google Cloud, and Azure VMware solutions.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have more than seven years of experience in Nutanix. My core expertise is in VMware and Nutanix.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is highly scalable. Most customers utilize the scalability capabilities for running and expanding their IT infrastructure as needed. The key aspects include mix-match hardware and hyper-converged infrastructure, combining compute, storage, and network in a single platform. No other competitor provides such scalable infrastructure. It is software-defined, cloud-integrated, and simple to manage with automated one-touch upgrade capabilities.

How are customer service and support?

They have their vendor site at support.nutanix.com. Users require an order ID or unique ID to log in, which can be individual or team-based. Support is available for software, hardware, upgrades, firmware, BIOS, Dell PT agent, and software entities through support.nutanix.com.

I would rate their support a nine out of ten because sometimes you struggle to get the engineers assigned to a particular issue, especially in situations like production downtime. Although there are Technical Account Managers (TAMs) and resident engineers available, they may not always be fully equipped to handle on-site troubleshooting effectively. Reducing resolution time would be beneficial for both the client and Nutanix.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We use external storage including Dell XtremIO, Data Domains, and I have exposure to VMware vSAN for storage solutions.

When comparing it to the other options, the licensing cost is significantly lower. It's a software-defined platform that offers block storage through a single management interface. Overall, this solution is more cost-effective than its competitors, which highlights the advantages of a unified storage platform.

How was the initial setup?

With all details and resources available, including DNS entries, IPs, subnets, and subnet masks, the initial setup takes two hours from start to finish. Expansion of new containers takes approximately 40 to 45 minutes.

What about the implementation team?

Implementation requires team effort. The process involves racking and stacking in the data center, network engineering according to cut sheet plans, cabling configuration, and hardware setup for HPE or Dell servers. After hardware setup, either AHV hypervisor or ESXi needs to be installed, followed by primary virtual machine configuration for Prism Central or Prism Element. The implementation scope depends on infrastructure size, whether it's a three-node, four-node, or six-node cluster, which is specified in the cut sheet. Separate teams handle costing, implementation, deployment, and operations.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing is based on the Acropolis Operating System (AOS), not on the hypervisor level. While VMware costs depend on ESXi hypervisor pricing, the AHV hypervisor for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is free. Customers only pay for the AOS platform. This differs from other competitors such as Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix, which have their own licensing costs for servers and cloud platforms.

What other advice do I have?

There are currently many platforms available, particularly with Nutanix. We can utilize Nutanix with Kubernetes as well as on AWS. For automation purposes, we require DevOps and machine learning to automate tasks. For example, if you want to delete snapshots on servers, automation is necessary, and this can be achieved through machine learning or DevOps practices. In the current environment, there are various scripting options available, including PowerShell and other non-specified scripts. If we focus specifically on the DevOps perspective, it's essential for me to learn these new technologies.

Regarding machine learning, I don’t have much exposure specifically to unified storage. However, with Nutanix Cloud platform, I have experience with data services and secure data services. From an infrastructure standpoint, I have over seven years of experience in hybrid and multi-cloud environments on the Nutanix platform.

In terms of cybersecurity, there are multiple external appliances available for unified storage. To focus on the Nutanix platform specifically, Nutanix Unified Storage has several features. For instance, Nutanix Lens is one tool available. Moreover, when consolidating your Nutanix infrastructure, you have access to various data protection, data analytics, and secure backup options. It's a combined effort involving Data Lens and other tools available in the market.

Data Lens essentially helps manage big data access across various geopolitical areas through data centers. We need to ensure compliance with our policies regarding security, especially concerning ransomware. In essence, it's a security solution offering that addresses vulnerabilities, data resiliency, and analytical tools that we utilize for security purposes. I had the opportunity to work on Data Lens about two or three months ago for a project.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.


    Nadeem Iqbal

Automated deployment accelerates processes and optimizes cloud costs

  • August 08, 2025
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a unified cloud management platform that provides automation, cost optimization, self-service provisioning, and security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Prism Center manages Nutanix infrastructure, monitoring, alerts, and lifecycle, while Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) adds advanced capabilities such as cost governance, automation, self-service, and security, as it is built on top of the Prism Center. It simplifies multi-cloud management and reduces cloud costs with optimization tools while enabling self-service and faster provisioning, improving security and compliance, and automating manual IT operations.

Regarding speed, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) automates deployment and includes logging task execution, such as blueprint deployment steps and runbook, which is helpful for debugging performance analysis for application performance and logging during automation. Because we have multiple nodes, we can use automations within two to three minutes. When running the automation script, we can deploy and collect the logs within two to three minutes. Without using automation scripts, it would take more time and effort for collecting requirement data and requirement deployments. Manual management is very difficult, so we develop scripting automation for deployment, collecting logs, and health checks, making it very speedy at two to three minutes.

What is most valuable?

We use automation for logging, collecting logs, and checking monitoring. The automation engine is powerful, similar to Calm, which is for automated application deployment, and I am using it in two and three projects. For expansion, we can use automation such as infrastructure and Terraform. Unified cloud storage is a unified software platform, such as NCM and VMware.

We can explain the platform types: unified SaaS, on-prem, and hybrid cloud management. VMware uses enterprise-grade hybrid management, and for infrastructure automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) uses Calm, blueprint, and runbook, while VMware uses infrastructure automation, blueprint, and workflow. For self-service protocol, NCM uses integrated multi-tenancy, but VMware is customizable. For cost governance, NCM uses Beam for multi-cloud cost tracking, but VMware requires vRealize Operations.

To compare Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and other components simply, NCM is a unified platform offering automation, cost governance, and operations through the UI. Compared to vRealize or Terraform, NCM stands out for simplicity and integrated cost analysis with Beam, and more benefits on one-click application with blueprint called Calm. However, tools such as Terraform offer more flexibility for DevOps-heavy use cases, and VMware may fit better in an all-VMware environment.

What needs improvement?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a very scalable deployment performance tool. The best features and key areas for improvement in Nutanix management are the user interface, enhancing onboarding with tool tips and guided steps, blueprint, and version control through Git integration. These are key areas to improve, along with third-party integration and license simplicity. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is very powerful, but it can be improved in areas such as UI usability, blueprint version, deeper cloud integration, and enhanced reporting by adding more AI-driven automation.

For how long have I used the solution?

Five plus years

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate stability as 8 out of 10 because I have deployed multiple projects, and neither my customers nor my team have complained.

How are customer service and support?

I rate the technical support as 9 out of 10 because I know it very well.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I am working with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) pricing depends on customer requirements and is based on licensing. It is relatively inexpensive, falling in the medium price range.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) to others because it is a very good platform for organizations that want to simplify hybrid or multi-cloud operations. It helps improve cost efficiency, which is crucial as customers check for that first. It improves efficiency and automates IT tasks, which benefits customers significantly. It enhances governance and security compliance, all from a single management platform. The customer base ranges from 3,000 to 5,000 users. My overall rating for this solution is 8 out of 10.


    reviewer1974369

Sync and automation saves time and enables us to focus on key projects

  • July 17, 2025
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

I use Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for sales and enterprise needs. I implement NCM for clients, and I use it for university education. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) helps with the automation of the clusters and provides a unification platform, with the principal automatic communication in redirect.

NCM helps with automation for the preparation of new VMs for other teams. This is important for me because I don't need to spend more time stopping my other operations to create new VMs. Using NCM's built-in playbooks has helped free up time for my IT team to focus on other projects, saving approximately 20% of time.

What is most valuable?

The best features of NCM include synchronization in the platform and the Prism Central. It provides centralized management and performance. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is far simpler to use compared to other cloud management solutions, and the technology is more practical to connect in other clouds. Nutanix is more expensive, but the presentation features more technology and integration. It provides more security and the experience is generally better.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have two years of experience with Nutanix.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's more stable, and the support is practical for any problem.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability in Nutanix is more flexible, which makes it practical to add new nodes.

How are customer service and support?

The support is the best support I have experienced in Nutanix. They have demonstrated excellent service when clients have problems with Nutanix and HDD issues, providing hardware replacement within 24 hours. The resolution, hardware technology, and hardware replacement are consistently prompt.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I don't use different virtualization as I started with the cloud computation of Nutanix. Other clients use VMware and Hyper-V, and my company consults for the transition to Nutanix.

What other advice do I have?

I have experience with Nutanix products from working for Nutanix. I work with Nutanix solutions, and in my college, we discuss the technology with students. The outcomes are very fast, and the system is more flexible. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is simpler and more stable compared to other cloud management solutions, and the technology is more practical to connect in other clouds. It is more difficult to set up in other clouds. We use both public cloud and private cloud for NCM. I rate Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) a 10 out of 10.