Nutanix Cloud Manager

The Modern Cloud Management Platform: Built for Scale, Sovereignty, and Speed

NCM delivers a unified Build-Operate-Govern platform with sovereign on-premises deployments, a single management pane across Nutanix and VMware estates, and customizable observability metrics. Enterprise-grade control for every customer segment.

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Why Nutanix Cloud Manager?

NCM empowers organizations to Build faster, Operate smarter, and Govern with confidence. Delivering measurable outcomes across hybrid and dark-site environments.

Sovereign Cloud Control

Nutanix Central On-Premises delivers unified management without SaaS dependencies. With HA, backup/restore, and on-premises Cost Governance for regulated and dark-site deployments.

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Unified Operations at Scale

Multi-PC support and common account onboarding unify inventory, alerts, playbooks, and FinOps across multiple Prism Central domains and VMware vCenters. A true, single pane of glass for multi-site estates.

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Greater Insights & Automation Efficiency

Comprehensive metrics, global variables for reusable automation, and Custom Metrics, Dashboards, and Self-Service Forms deliver enterprise-grade observability and self-service. (Custom capabilities coming soon)

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One Platform. Every Domain. Enterprise-Grade Control.

NCM 2.x is your unified Build, Operate, and Govern platform. Managing multiple Prism Central domains and VMware vCenters from a single pane of glass, with sovereign on-premises deployment options for regulated, dark-site, and geographically distributed environments.

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Build Faster

Deliver infrastructure and apps at speed, with self-service automation, pre-built blueprints, and intuitive Custom Forms that scale across every site.

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One-click simplicity even for the most complex deployments

Simplify the setup and management of any application or task using customizable blueprints and your favorite tools to automate provisioning— no manual steps, no bottlenecks.

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Build seamlessly with tools that you already own

Connect to your existing third-party and  ITSM tools, such as ServiceNow, automation platforms, and partner integrations, to streamline operations and accelerate service delivery.

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Faster deployment with pre-packaged marketplace services

Deploy fully configured environments in minutes using a self-service marketplace curated with ready-to-use blueprints for common workloads.

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Tailored Self-Service with Custom Forms

Define intuitive Blueprint, and Runbook launches with consumer-style forms, replacing technical complexity without writing code. Role-specific inputs, guided workflows, and configurable fields.

 

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Operate Smarter

Gain full visibility at scale with comprehensive metrics, multi-site intelligence, and global automation variables across your entire hybrid estate.

Multi-site single pane of glass

Global visibility and common account onboarding centralize inventory, alerts, playbooks, reports, capacity runway, and “what-if” planning across multiple Prism domains and VMware vCenters.

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Global variables for automation at scale

Establish a repeatable process for automation inputs across all blueprints and runbooks, reducing errors, eliminating manual updates, and standardizing policies across teams and sites.

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[Coming soon] Custom Observability (2.1 Roadmap)

Custom Metrics help define business-aligned KPIs, Customer Dashboards with role-specific views and drill-down, and UDA Integration for proactive alerting and automated remediation.

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Govern with Confidence

Enforce security, compliance, and control costs automatically

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On-premises Cost Governance

Full FinOps visibility and cost allocation without SaaS dependencies. For regulated environments, dark sites, and organizations with strict data residency requirements. Unified roles include a new dedicated FinOPS Admin role.

 

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Enterprise-ready management plane HA

High availability and backup/restore for the NCM control plane minimize downtime and protect policies, configurations, and compliance programs against VM and infrastructure failures.

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Data residency & auditability

On-premises Cost Governance, unified roles, and FinOPS Admin role ensure your cost, policy, and configuration data never leaves your environment. Supports GDPR, FedRAMP, and industry-specific compliance frameworks.

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High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Management plane HA and backup/restore capabilities harden the control plane against failures, maintaining policy enforcement and compliance posture even during infrastructure events.

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NCM is ranked #1 for Cloud Management

FAQ

Nutanix Cloud Manager is a unified management platform that simplifies operations across hybrid multicloud environments. It provides capabilities such as intelligent monitoring, cost governance, self-service automation, and security compliance.

Nutanix Cloud Manager differs from other cloud management solutions in that it supports both hybrid and multicloud environments, including AWS, Azure, Nutanix, and VMware by Broadcom. It simplifies operations through seamless infrastructure integration, self-service, machine-learning-driven automation, and easy configuration.

Nutanix Cloud Manager offers multiple licensing tiers, including Starter, Pro, and Ultimate, each unlocking different levels of functionality. For detailed licensing and software information, visit the Nutanix Cloud Software Options page or contact us.

While Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Prism both offer user interfaces for managing Nutanix environments, Prism focuses on core infrastructure setup (such as cluster health and VM operations), whereas NCM builds upon those capabilities with advanced features such as automation, cost governance, and security compliance. NCM requires additional licensing.

Yes, NCM can manage VMware by Broadcom clusters that are not hosted on Nutanix infrastructure. Learn about your options.

NCM 2.x introduces three major platform upgrades: (1) Sovereign cloud control through Nutanix Central On-Premises for regulated and air-gapped environments, (2) Unified multi-site operations with Multi-PC support and common account onboarding and (3) 50+ new derived observability metrics plus global automation variables.

Yes. NCM 2.x introduces Nutanix Central On-Premises, which enables complete management plane sovereignty, no SaaS dependencies required. This is designed for regulated industries, dark-site deployments and environments with strict data residency or auditability requirements. Full Build-Operate-Govern capabilities including on-premises Cost Governance are available in this configuration.

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