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Nutanix Cloud Platform: One Platform to Run Apps & Data Anywhere
Nutanix is a game-changer for data centres, offering a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution that simplifies IT management and boosts agility. Unlike traditional setups with separate servers, storage, and networking components, Nutanix combines these elements into a software-driven platform. This simplifies deployment, reduces complexity, and improves scalability. Nutanix empowers businesses to run any application, from virtual desktops to mission-critical databases, on a unified and easily managed infrastructure. They offer a variety of software products catering to virtualisation, containerisation, database management, and security, all within their HCI framework. With Nutanix, businesses gain a powerful and flexible solution that lowers IT costs, streamlines operations, and accelerates innovation.
✡ Limited Time VMware Migration Offer ✡
Migrate to Nutanix with 1 year of free licensing and migration support. Take advantage of this limited-time promotion for deployments on numerous platforms, including core datacenter, edge, or public cloud.
Why Customers Win with Nutanix Cloud Platform:
Customers win with Nutanix Cloud Platform's software-defined architecture, data services, streamlined operations, and universal application deployment. This yields superior flexibility, efficient data management, and simplified operations.
Software-defined Architecture
Move to a server-based architecture to leverage cloud-like economics, flexible scaling, and highly portable operations.
Comprehensive Data Services
Manage and protect all your data with high-performance data services that simplify data mobility and improve security.
Identical Operations
Deliver consistent operations across clouds, whether on-premises, at the edge, or in public environments.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI):
A modern platform with hyperconverged compute, storage, virtualisation, and networking at the core.
High Performance Storage
Flexible and Open Compute
Automated and Secure Networking
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM):
A unified solution for automating platform management and delivering a self-service cloud interface to developers and application owners across the global hybrid multicloud.
Intelligent Operations
Self-Service
Cost Governance
Security Central
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS):
Modern software-defined data services platform that consolidates file, objects, and block storage into a single platform with integrated cyber security and ransomware protection.
Unified Data Services
Security-First Design
Scale with Performance
Nutanix Database Service (NDB):
Hybrid multicloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that helps speed application development and simplify database administration.
Accelerate Software Development
Simplified Database Administration
Reliable Performance, Security and Scalability
Nutanix Cloud Platform Overview:
Why You Can Count on Nutanix:
Take advantage of what Nutanix offers versus VMware, including the efficiency, simplicity, and flexibility of unified hybrid multicloud management. Whether you are looking to enhance your existing VMware environment or find a VMware alternative, Nutanix is the ideal choice.
| Nutanix | VMware | |
| Best Hybrid Multicloud Experience: One unified platform across datacenters, clouds, and edge Nutanix provides the best hybrid multicloud experience by allowing you to manage datacenters, clouds, and the edge as a single entity. |
✅ | ❌ |
| Simplest Operations: Multicloud IaaS with a consistent and identical operating model Nutanix software is consistently managed across on-prem, AWS, and Azure environments. By contrast, VMware is customer-managed on-premises, VMware-managed in AWS, and Azure-managed in Azure. |
✅ | ❌ |
| Best-in-class Customer Satisfaction: Migration toolkit and industry-leading support with 90 Net Promoter Score Nutanix has customers covered for workload mobility with industry-leading support (seven-year average NPS score of 90) and with migration toolkits (Nutanix Move - a cross-hypervisor mobility solution to move VMs with minimal downtime). |
✅ | ❌ |
Why Rely on the Nutanix Cloud Platform for All Your Apps and Data?
| Nutanix | VMware | |
| Best HCI Architecture Single, unified HCI architecture for mixed workloads |
✅ | ❌ |
| Fast Upgrades Full-stack and consistent security upgrades |
✅ | ❌ |
| Secure and Resilient Secure by default with native VM-level data encryption |
✅ | ❌ |
| Minimise Downtime Enterprise-grade disaster recovery |
✅ | ❌ |
| Easy License Portability Across clouds and on-premises |
✅ | ❌ |
| Fast Path to the Cloud Nutanix HCI on Azure BareMetal solution |
✅ | ❌ |
| Fully Unified Storage Consolidated and simplified file, object, and block storage management |
✅ | ❌ |
Mapping VMware Products to Nutanix
The following table should help you map from the VMware products you currently use to the corresponding functionality in the Nutanix ecosystem. Note that in most cases, the corresponding Nutanix functionality is not licensed separately, simplifying procurement.
| (Any Problems?) VMware Products ❌ |
(Solution) Nutanix Products ✅ |
(What you need to know) Notes & Considerations |
| VMware Cloud Foundation |
Nutanix Cloud Platform |
Nutanix Cloud Platform supports hybrid and multicloud deployments utilising NCI & NC2 |
| vSphere |
Nutanix AHV |
You can continue to run vSphere in all on-premises deployments. AHV, the native Nutanix hypervisor, is included as part of a Nutanix subscription and is the only supported hypervisor for NC2 deployments |
| vSAN |
AOS Storage |
AOS Storage functionality is included as part of NCI and NC2. It does not have to be licensed separately |
| NSX |
Flow Virtual Networking |
FVN is included with NCI Pro and NCI Ultimate licensing |
| VMware Cloud on AWS |
Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS |
NC2 utilises NCI licenses which can be flexibly moved between on-prem and cloud locations without requiring re-licensing |
| VMware Cloud |
Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure |
Nutanix Prism provides infrastructure and virtualisation management for Nutanix. It is included with NCI and NC2 |
| vCenter |
Nutanix Prism Central |
Depending on licensing level, NCM encompasses the capabilities of the VMware Aria Suite (vRealize Suite), and CloudHealth |
| VMware Aria Suite |
Nutanix Cloud Manager |
Included with all NCM licenses |
| VMware Aria Operations VMware Aria Automation |
NCM Intelligent Operations |
Included with all NCM licenses |
| VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth |
NCM Cost Governance |
Included with NCM Pro and Ultimate licenses |
| VMware Aria Operations for Networks |
Nutanix Security Central |
Included with NCM Ultimate license, NCI Pro license with security add-on, and NCI Ultimate license |
Nutanix Software Licensing: Nutanix uses a simple subscription-based software licensing model. Recognising that complex licensing and high licensing costs can be significant pain points for VMware customers. Nutanix makes every effort to keep both our product structure and licensing simple and flexible. If further discussion of licensing is need contact us to discuss further.
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Migration Pathways
Download the VMware to Nutanix Migration Guide.
It addresses the following migration pathways...
On-Premises Migration Pathways
- From VMware software running on traditional three-tier infrastructure
- From a VMware vSAN environment to Nutanix
- From another HCI environment running VMware (Cisco, HPE) to Nutanix
If you are considering one of these migration paths, familiarise yourself with the following sections:
- Section 3: Migrating to NCI
- Section 5: Migrating to NCM
- Section 6: Migrating to NUS (especially if you’re using vSAN File Service or operating an EUC environment)
- Section 7: Migrating from VMware to Nutanix with Nutanix Move
Cloud Migration Pathways
- From VMware Cloud on AWS to Nutanix Cloud Clusters
- From Azure VMware Cloud to Nutanix Cloud Clusters
- From VMware on-prem to Nutanix Cloud Clusters
If you are considering one of these migration paths, familiarise yourself with the following sections:
- Section 4: Migrating to NC2
- Section 5: Migrating to NCM
- Section 7: Migrating from VMware to Nutanix with Nutanix Move