Nutanix vs VMware in 2024

It is the battle of the titans in the virtualization world - Nutanix vs VMware. Up until recently, most were fine with running VMware vSphere in their home lab and production environments. However, with the Broadcom buyout, many organizations are seeing a 10-15x increase in their VMware pricing. Nutanix has emerged as a very desirable platform with the enterprise polish many companies are looking for to pivot from VMware. In this Nutanix vs VMware comparison, we compare both hypervisors and some of the things you should think about as we move through 2024 and beyond, including the nightmare of the Broadcom website for VMware support currently.
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Introduction to Nutanix vs VMware - 0:00
A word about the video sponsor - 0:33
Overview of Nutanix and VMware - 1:17
New developments for Nutanix in 2024 - 2:56
New developments for VMware in 2024 - 3:30
Performance between the two - 4:19
Performance and Scalability of Nutanix - 4:47
Performance and Scalability of VMware - 5:14
Management of Nutanix - 5:57
Management of VMware - 6:31
Cost and licensing - 7:09
Cost and licensing of Nutanix - 7:27
Unseen cost of retraining for Nutanix - 8:00
Cost and licensing of VMware - 8:22
Customer support and community - 9:43
Customer support and commmunity for Nutanix - 10:12
Customer support and community for VMware - 10:42
Disaster of current Broadcom website for VMware support - 11:13
Nutanix vs VMware for home lab in 2024 - 12:32
Mixed bag to run Nutanix in the home lab - 13:02
Why you should do it - run Nutanix in home lab - 13:45
Computershare moved 24,000 VMs to Nutanix from VMware - 14:51
Which to choose? 15:15
Wrapping up the comparison of Nutanix vs VMware - 16:01

[@ManOwaRitis]

You mentioned that Nakivo also supports Proxmox, but it was not showing in the list of hypervisors on the second step of your introduction. Am I missing something?

[@seanwoods1526]

Yes!!! Thank you!!!

[@techhypero]

hello, do you know how i can download nutanix CE without a company email address?

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@chethantg6589]

Very true!

[@walkinginshadow]

Will you test ovirt?

[@NetScalerTrainer]

VMware esx 7 and higher will not run on older CPUs. Nutanix needs Sandy Lake and newer which is a lot more reasonable,

[@JoeyMe]

good stuff

[@ShahzadKhan-xi3nx]

sir i have a quire please help with that

[@NetScalerTrainer]

You can not upgrade Nutanix if you are booting off USB. Romberg to boot from an SSD!

[@Br0llyLSSJ]

I doubt that Nutanix will add support for SAN or other external storage. You could already attach it, maybe with hacks, but it is just not supported. As for the prices: Nutanix could be as expensive or even more expensier than VMware. They do not have a fixed price as far as i heard and all prices are individually calculated for each customer.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

@Br0llyLSSJ Good call out here. i am hoping Nutanix doesn't take advantage of potential customers by hiking prices, albeit lower than VMware.

[@user-bi4jp5jo1m]

And as long as it's not older hardware than 2 or 3 generations, and no longer on usb or standard SSD's they have to high r/w life span just for a 2gb partition that will fry an SSD every 18 months. Then lets talk pricing as of the last couple weeks.

[@parl-88]

Interested in your Nakivo comments. I was not able to find any Tutorials on it on YT. Would you be interested maybe in making some? Nakivo, if you are reading this, offer this opportunity to Brandon. Cheers.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

@parl-88 Great question! I will engage them and see if they would like to do something like this. Thank you again!

[@HiltonT69]

VMware is dead in SMB and home labs.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Unless you got the old stuff lol

[@pepeshopping]

Neither. No vendor lockup.