Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure
A Simpler, Faster and More Cost-Effective Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure
Simplify your hybrid cloud with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure to easily run, manage and operate apps, data and AI workloads without code changes.
With NC2, a hybrid cloud deployment model for the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), organizations experience seamless deployment of on-premises and edge environment applications into Microsoft Azure without disruptions.
While leveraging the same Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) software, organizations get consistent IT management, processes and procedures across the entire hybrid cloud for a faster time-to-cloud value with reduced complexity and lower total cost of ownership.
We want to leverage the cloud to build for the future, and also to help us from a disaster recovery perspective. A hybrid cloud also gives us flexibility instead of being dependent solely on on-premises solutions.
Product Use Cases
| Migrate and Modernize | Cloud Disaster Recovery | Data Center Extension |
|---|---|---|
| Seamlessly deploy and migrate apps and data to Azure quickly with no refactoring or rearchitecting. Then, modernize with Nutanix Kubernetes, database services, and AI, and integrate with Azure native cloud services. | Use Azure regions as a secondary site for business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness. Benefit from global availability and geographic expansion of your disaster recovery solution without owning or managing a secondary datacenter yet recover in minutes if a disaster failover event occurs. | Eliminate wasteful on-premises resource requirements for geographic expansion, end-user computing, seasonal apps, and dev/test environments by leveraging Azure bare-metal nodes on-demand. Rapidly spin-up apps when required, then shrink down when they’re not. |
Capabilities
Hybrid Cloud Management
- Simplify app, data and security management across clouds with a unified management control plane to manage, move and secure apps and data across clouds.
- Seamlessly move workloads across on-premises and NC2 on Azure quickly for flexible workload placement without re-architecting or refactoring.
- Utilize existing Azure accounts for streamlined migration and integration between apps and Azure services without the need for complex network or security constructs between Azure accounts.
- Scale elastic disaster recovery to the cloud when you need it and reduce cloud costs.
- Migrate workloads seamlessly from on-premise or Azure VMware Solution (AVS) with Nutanix Move.
Infrastructure Intelligence
- Simplify cloud operations and lifecycle management across on-premises, edge and public cloud.
- Procure clusters in minutes via the Azure marketplace and with build times in a few hours.
- Achieve enterprise-level application performance, resilience and data retention with Microsoft Azure bare metal.
- Experience seamless deployment of on-premises and edge environment applications into Microsoft Azure without disruptions.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure
Flexibility and Efficiency
- Port flexible Nutanix licenses between on-premises and NC2 on Azure environments.
- Use Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for cost visibility and governance across on-premises, native cloud and NC2 on Azure.
- Leverage a migration optimization assessment that can help customers uncover and address the hidden costs of software licensing in cloud migrations, delivering valuable insights while keeping costs under control.
- Choose from several bare-metal instance types that offer varied CPUs, memory and storage availability.
| Azure Model | AN36 | AN36P | AN64 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Platform | Dual Intel Skylake | Dual Intel Cascade Lake | Dual Intel Sapphire Rapids |
| Processor Cores | 18 Cores (per CPU socket) | 18 Cores (per CPU socket) | 32 Cores (per CPU socket) |
| Maximum Memory | 576 GB | 768 GB | 1 TB |
| Storage Type | NVMe and SSD | NVMe and Intel Optane | Local NVMe |
| Maximum Storage Capacity | 18.56 TB | 20.7 TB | 38 TB |
Seamless Procurement and Support
NC2 on Azure is available in these regions and with joint customer support.
Azure users can subscribe via the Azure marketplace using their MACC for Nutanix software and Azure nodes. Nutanix customers can seamlessly transfer licenses to Azure across on-premises, edge and public cloud environments.
Resources and Getting Started
Additional resources about NC2 on Azure are available at the links below.
- Learn more about NC2 on Azure at www.nutanix.com/nc2onazure
- Experience NC2 on Azure with a complimentary test drive at www.nutanix.com/azuretd
- Start a 30-day free trial of NC2 with Microsoft Azure at https://www.nutanix.com/products/nutanix-cloud-clusters/azure/free-trial