When it comes to profitability, let’s start with the elephant in the room: licensing and maintenance costs. We have just published a report that compares the pricing of OpenNebula, a compelling alternative to Nutanix, specifically analyzing the costs associated with Nutanix Cloud Manager and Cloud Infrastructure.

Cost Comparison: OpenNebula as an Alternative to Nutanix

As a simple case study, we compared the annual cost of the licensing and 24×7 support for the software needed to build a private cloud on a single cluster with 10 servers running on bare-metal AWS. In both cases, customers are responsible for costs associated with AWS bare-metal instances and services. The economic value proposition is compelling — this study indicates that Nutanix customers can reduce software license and support costs by 80% by switching to OpenNebula. Additionally, an organization needs to evaluate how many employees are required to operate the cloud, which will impact its ongoing OpEx costs. OpenNebula is very easy to install, upgrade, and maintain. Your cloud will run for years with little maintenance. There are many established enterprise OpenNebula users running very large-scale clouds with thousands of hosts managed by a single administrator. Your IT staff will move on to business-oriented projects, doing less of the day-to-day management tasks.

From a functionality perspective, both platforms have their advantages and disadvantages, so the choice ultimately depends on the unique needs of your organization. However, if budget and simplicity are the main considerations, OpenNebula may be the better choice. Using OpenNebula to build clouds can have significant economic benefits for any enterprise and will improve both infrastructure flexibility and business agility. OpenNebula provides the most demanded management features to build clouds for enterprises and service providers, matching most of the features offered by the Nutanix Cloud Platform at a fraction of its cost. 

The main advantage of OpenNebula is the strategic path to openness as you move beyond virtualization toward an enterprise cloud. OpenNebula avoids future vendor lock-in, grants you more control over your infrastructure, and strengthens the negotiating position of your company. Have a look at our Case Studies to learn more from our users and customers about how they are putting OpenNebula to work.

Time to check out our OpenNebula versus Nutanix: Competitive Pricing Review to discover the many benefits of migrating from Nutanix to OpenNebula! ⬇️