8 Reasons Why

Nutanix is the Better

Alternative to VMware

For businesses that rely on VMware for their virtualization and infrastructure needs, Nutanix
offers a better alternative with one platform to run apps and manage data across multiple
endpoints. Our cloud platform provides flexibility and choice, without vendor lock-in, and
supports existing VMware environments with unified management.

This list demonstrates how Nutanix provides a better solution compared to VMware and
helps your business quickly and easily build a hybrid multicloud infrastructure.

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A single, unified HCI architecture Faster full-stack and consistent
for mixed workloads security upgrades
Nutanix unlocks NVMe performance for SAN-level Nutanix’s GUI-based, 1-click, full-stack upgrades,
workloads with snapshots and replication along with unlike VMware’s CLI-based upgrades, allow customers
support for files, objects, HDDs, and a choice of hardware to quickly address security breaches, such as Log4j, so
or cloud. (In contrast, VMware has two different and operations across the hybrid cloud are secure.
separate vSAN architectures – ESA vs. OSA). With Easy and efficient, full-stack security upgrade with GUI.
Nutanix, integrate seamlessly with existing VMware
solutions under a unified single pane of glass while
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Preferred partnership Best hybrid cloud
with Red Hat EUC solution with Citrix
Nutanix is a preferred partner for RedHat where Nutanix delivers HCI value for VDI environments where
support for RHEL and OpenShift gives customers our seamless scaling provides a consistent cross-cloud
support for new container environments. experience for customers.

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Only multicloud IaaS Easy license portability across
with consistent operations clouds and on-premises
Nutanix software is consistently managed Nutanix flexibility makes it easy to port licenses
across on-prem, AWS, and Azure environments. across deployments. This is complex with VMware,
By contrast, VMware is customer-managed with several variances in portability of licenses.
on-premises, VMware-managed in AWS, and Nutanix portability allows data and apps to be
Azure-managed in Azure. optimally located across the hybrid cloud as
performance, cost, and data sovereignty
priorities change.
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Fastest path to the cloud: Nutanix HCI Industry-leading support and toolkit
on Azure BareMetal solution for fast and easy migration
Nutanix is the first customer-managed HCI jointly With industry leading support
engineered with Azure to deliver fast migration to (NPS score of 90+) and with migration toolkits
the public cloud with up to 53% savings, plus support (Nutanix Move-a cross-hypervisor mobility
for Azure ExpressRoute to securely connect edge, solution to move VMs with minimal downtime),
datacenter, and cloud endpoints. Nutanix has customers covered for migrating
workloads from VMware to Nutanix.

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