How long did it take Westgate Resorts to migrate 60 properties to Nutanix Database Service?

According to the description, Westgate migrated 60 properties to Nutanix Database Service in four hours, with the business experiencing no disruption during the transition.

What specific operational improvements did Westgate see after migrating to Nutanix?

Westgate reduced database backup and cloning times from 13-18 hours to approximately one hour, compressed patching windows from 10-12 hours to 90 minutes, and decreased CPU requirements from 24 to 16 cores while maintaining or improving performance.

Westgate Resorts Saves $1.6M with Nutanix Database Service

Name: Westgate Resorts Saves $1.6M with Nutanix Database Service
Uploaded: 2026-04-23T15:48:30-04:00
Duration: 2 min 55 s
Description: TL;DR Westgate Resorts migrated 60 properties to Nutanix Database Service, completing the transition seamlessly with zero business disruption and full engineering support from Nutanix. The migration delivered $1.6 million in annual savings while reduci...

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TL;DR

Westgate Resorts migrated 60 properties to Nutanix Database Service, completing the transition seamlessly with zero business disruption and full engineering support from Nutanix.
The migration delivered $1.6 million in annual savings while reducing CPU requirements from 24 to 16 cores and maintaining equivalent or better performance for their mission-critical application.
Operational efficiency improved dramatically with database cloning reduced from 13-18 hours to one hour and patching windows compressed from 10-12 hours to 90 minutes, significantly improving IT team work-life balance.

Summary

Westgate Resorts, a hospitality company operating over 70 timeshare and rental properties, successfully migrated their mission-critical customer management application to Nutanix Database Service (NDB), achieving significant operational and financial improvements. The systems manager recounts the company's infrastructure challenges as they expanded from a timeshare-focused business to a full-service hospitality operation with food and beverage locations. Facing the need to modernize a 30-year-old application that handles check-ins and timeshare sales across all properties, Westgate chose Nutanix for its platform simplicity and architectural expertise. The migration of 60 properties was completed seamlessly with support from Nutanix engineers, resulting in $1.6 million in annual savings, reduced CPU requirements from 24 to 16 cores while maintaining performance, database cloning times reduced from 13-18 hours to approximately one hour, and patching windows compressed from 10-12 hours to just 90 minutes. The modernization has improved work-life balance for the IT team and positioned Westgate to adopt emerging technologies including Kubernetes and AI-driven customer service capabilities.

Chapters

0:00 - IT Career Journey
0:25 - Westgate Business Overview
1:03 - Nutanix Migration Decision
1:53 - Performance and Cost Results

Key Quotes

1:01 "This application is the lifeline of the company, and that's why we chose the Nutanix database service."
1:43 "That's where Nutanix really shined. We didn't skip a beat. We got more performance than we ever thought we were going to get, and the business didn't even know we actually did the migration."
2:26 "Ultimately, moving to the Nutanix database service saved us around $1.6 million."

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» Cloud
» Cloud » Hybrid Cloud
» Cloud » Private Cloud
» Data Management
» Data Management » Converged Infrastructure
» Data Management » Data Storage
» Data Management » Virtualization
» Data Protection » Backup & Recovery
» Cybersecurity » Cloud Security
» Data Protection

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