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Simplify Private Cloud: Dell PowerStore and Nutanix Cloud Platform

By Drew Schulke, VP, Dell Technologies; Ketan Shah, VP, Nutanix
July 28, 2026 2:27 pm |
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Organizations have made it clear that they want enterprise storage performance in their Nutanix environments without giving up the simplicity that brought them to the platform. Today, Dell and Nutanix are delivering on that promise. PowerStore now supports Nutanix Cloud Platform, available with NCI 7.6, with validated deployment and managed through Dell Private Cloud.

This collaboration makes PowerStore the second Dell storage platform to integrate with Nutanix, following PowerFlex, which became the first external storage supported and integrated with Nutanix Cloud Platform. Dell now offers the broadest infrastructure portfolio available for Nutanix environments. Dell Private Cloud provides the foundation with automated lifecycle management and Dell system-level hardware support, giving organizations a fully validated path to running Nutanix with enterprise-grade external storage.

What Dell Private Cloud with PowerStore Delivers for Nutanix

Dell Private Cloud brings together PowerStore's enterprise all-flash storage with Nutanix Cloud Platform with AHV, delivering end-to-end NVMe performance, always-on data reduction, and comprehensive cyber resilience. Dell Private Cloud brings PowerStore and Nutanix together through an automated, validated deployment experience. For Nutanix environments, Dell and Nutanix have engineered an integration that preserves the operational experience Nutanix teams expect:

  • Independent compute and storage scalability — Dell Private Cloud orchestrates compute and storage scaling on separate tracks based on actual workload demand. PowerStore's Dynamic Resiliency Engine enables granular storage scaling one drive at a time.
  • 6:1 data reduction guaranteed — Always-on intelligent deduplication and compression deliver an industry-leading 6:1 data reduction guarantee¹, consolidating more workloads while lowering storage costs.
  • Versatile cyber resilience — From asynchronous replication to Metro synchronous with zero RPO and zero RTO, protection policies are managed from Prism. Remote backups via Dell PowerProtect Data Manager provide long-term retention with cloud archival and retention locks.

What Nutanix brings to PowerStore

NCP provides the modern virtualization and cloud operating model that organizations are increasingly adopting as they modernize infrastructure and expand workload choice. Together with PowerStore, Nutanix delivers a flexible foundation that enables customers to evolve beyond legacy virtualization architecture without sacrificing enterprise capabilities.

  • Modern virtualization at scale - Run enterprise applications on Nutanix AHV, a built-in hypervisor designed for simplicity, security, and operational efficiency.
  • Cloud operating model for the datacenter - Unified management through Prism simplifies infrastructure operations across compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery.
  • A future-ready platform - Support for virtualized, cloud-native, and AI-ready workloads on a common platform helps organizations modernize at their own pace.

Dell Private Cloud: The Foundation for PowerStore on Nutanix

Dell Private Cloud is the foundation that brings PowerStore and Nutanix together into a validated, automated infrastructure experience. It automates AHV deployment with validated blueprints, orchestrates full-stack lifecycle management through Dell Automation Platform, and backs the entire stack with Dell system-level hardware support. As Omdia noted in a recent Technical First Look, this automated approach "reduces operational overhead while maintaining compliance with Dell's tested and supported configurations, closing potential security gaps left open by solutions without this level of integration and lifecycle management support."

What this means for customers

Dell Private Cloud and Dell PowerStore for Nutanix are the latest step in a 14-year partnership that continues to accelerate. As Omdia concluded, "the combination of enterprise-grade storage capabilities, automated lifecycle management, and flexible deployment options of Dell Private Cloud on PowerStore with Nutanix positions IT teams to support current workloads while preparing for AI-driven transformation." This is what infrastructure freedom looks like: the flexibility to choose the right platform for every workload, the operational simplicity of Dell Private Cloud managing it through the tools your team already knows, and a partnership that keeps building what comes next.

Partners are already seeing the value of the combined solution:

"From a partner perspective, PowerStore and Nutanix is one of those combinations that demonstrates its value quickly. Customers get streamlined infrastructure management through Nutanix backed by the performance, efficiency, and scalability of PowerStore, making it an attractive option for modernization initiatives." - Winslow Technology Group

Get started today

Dell Private Cloud with PowerStore for Nutanix Cloud Platform is available now with NCI 7.6. Whether you're modernizing your infrastructure, evaluating hypervisor alternatives, or looking for enterprise storage performance in your Nutanix environment, visit our Dell Private Cloud page and PowerStore page or reach out to your Dell or Nutanix representative.