Modernize and Expand Your Choice with Nutanix
Reduce your VMware dependency and modernize on your terms with Nutanix. Run new workloads—and new instances of existing ones—on a flexible, enterprise-grade platform.
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If you’re looking for a VMware alternative, experience a Test Drive and discover how you can easily migrate away from VMware and confidently deploy all your workloads.
Broadcom to Nutanix Migration Offer
Migrate to Nutanix with 1 year of free licensing and incentives. Take advantage of this limited-time promotion.
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If you prefer to migrate off of VMware completely or rebalance your workloads across core and the cloud, learn how Nutanix can help.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
AHV is a comparable alternative to VMware ESX in supporting enterprise-grade features, including:
- VM high availability
- Fast VM cross-cluster migrations
- VM dynamic scheduling and placement
- Built-in comprehensive security
- Software-defined networking with microsegmentation
- BCDR with synchronous and asynchronous replication
AHV is NOT a stand-alone solution and is the cornerstone of our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure platform.
Read 5 Reasons Why AHV is Your Best Virtualization Alternative
Nutanix offers a variety of licensing options to meet diverse needs. To learn more, visit the Nutanix Cloud Software Options page.
For a detailed comparison, download and view page 9 of the VMware to Nutanix Migration Guide.
Nutanix offers a streamlined, cost-effective alternative to VMware that’s designed with simplicity, flexibility, and scalability in mind:
- Unified hybrid multicloud: Nutanix delivers a single platform to run and manage VMs, containers, databases, and AI across datacenter, public cloud, and edge—with portable licenses and consistent operations everywhere.
- Freedom to scale your way: Avoid rigid bundles and forced upgrades. Nutanix supports flexible scaling across environments, with a modular approach and world-class support available to all customers.
- Modern, AI-ready platform: Run traditional apps and next-gen workloads—like Kubernetes® and AI—on your terms. Nutanix offers broad hypervisor support and a consistent control plane across all infrastructure.
- A partner you can trust: While others shift models and raise prices, Nutanix offers stability, transparency, and proven support—backed by a 90+ NPS and a customer-first mindset.
Nutanix is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. Nutanix offers the best hybrid multicloud experience with one unified platform across datacenters, clouds, and edge. We simplify operations with multicloud IaaS that maintains a consistent operating model across environments. With migration toolkits and over a decade of industry-leading support backed by a 90+ Net Promoter Score, Nutanix offers best-in-class customer satisfaction.
Nutanix Cloud Platform built for mixed workloads—including containers, AI workloads, and business-critical applications. It offers fast, secure upgrades, built-in encryption, and enterprise-grade disaster recovery to minimize downtime. With easy license portability across on-prem and cloud, a quick path to the public cloud, and unified file, object, and block storage, it simplifies operations while giving you the flexibility to run apps anywhere.
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