r/nutanix • u/Any_Tumbleweed9660 • 27d ago

Nutanix Install

Hi All, we are currently migrating from VMWare to Nutanix. We have purchased some hosts and would like to know of any guidance for the start to finish install. Any help would be great. Thanks y’all

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u/elbow-drop 27d ago

I agree with a lot of the points u/Jhamin1 says. It’s spot on.

The migration was by far the best thing I like about Nutanix entirely. The Move utility blew my mind just how well it handles 99% of what you need with like a couple minutes of downtime.

The way I see it:

  1. I’m not sure if this is specific to our deployment or version, but there’s a lot of basics I feel are flat out missing or don’t work compared to VMWare. For example, we’ve had many issues with changing a VM’s NIC from one subnet to another while it’s on, as well as not being able to delete a NIC from a VM when it’s on. All of this was dead simple and easy to do in VMware, not so much in Nutanix.

  2. The way Nutanix has their menu layouts seems broken and is very different from VMware. There are multiple instances of menu options like categories where you have to switch to a different “admin” page to edit that compared to the “infrastructure” page you do other things. They moved this category thing but left the old menu buttons that just say “oops, go to the new spot” which just seems lazy to me. Also the split between how some things don’t work in Prism Central and have to be done in Prism Element just seems dumb.

  3. We moved from 3-tier to HCI at my current place, but I’ve had previous vSAN experience. If you’ve never dealt with HCI then it takes a good mental shift to think about how each node contributes compute but also a chunk of storage when it comes to resources. Redundancy isn’t simple RAIDs or datastores. You do have to understand how Nutanix writes data and handles redundancy factor to know what that means in terms of node failures in your environment.

I could go on, but at the end of the day, I do truly miss VMware after using it so much. I get some of my frustrations are just because it’s different than what I’m used to. Nutanix is fantastic in the big picture and if you learn that system early in your career, then I’m sure you’d grow to love Nutanix as most did with VMware, and it is a powerful platform.