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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I would rate Nutanix support a 10 out of 10.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The deployment process is easy.

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.

It saves time for implementation and deployment.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Five plus years

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

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

I am working with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.

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

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.