Nutanix Cloud Clusters
Accelerate your Cloud Journey and Optimize Workloads while Reducing Risk
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) enables customers to quickly migrate apps, data and AI workloads across the clouds of their choice without lengthy hardware delays, while modernizing with Nutanix services and native cloud services. You can also manage your entire infrastructure across datacenters, edge locations and multiple public clouds as one unified cloud to simplify operations and increase cloud efficiency.
Through a common user interface (UI), NC2 simplifies hybrid and multicloud operations, automates VMs and containers, and delivers unified networking and security across all cloud environments. This enables IT to leverage their skills universally, regardless of infrastructure location. NC2 also provides the same level of resilience, intelligent operations, lifecycle management, and security that Nutanix is widely known for.
Key Benefits
- Faster time to value: Accelerate cloud and digital transformation initiatives at a lower risk and without lengthy hardware delays.
- App mobility: Quickly migrate applications to public clouds without refactoring, re-architecting or relicensing software.
- Cloud-native integration: Gain direct access to the cloud-native services and features of AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and OVHcloud.
- Integrated visibility and control: Use one unified management control plane to see, manage, move, and secure data and apps across diverse cloud environments.
- Built-in expertise: Avoid retooling and reskilling as you make changes to your hybrid multicloud.
- Dynamic access to IT resources: Immediately tap into public cloud resources to manage unpredictable or seasonal usage spikes.
Product Advantages
Nutanix simplifies your ability to run, manage and operate apps, data and AI with a hybrid cloud infrastructure optimized for all workloads.
One Platform
A unified, secure, AI‑enabled hybrid multicloud platform delivering consistent operations across on‑premises, edge locations, and in public cloud.
Accelerated deployment
Cut deployment times from 18-24 months to 3-6 months based on feedback from Nutanix customers and research analysts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
Efficient scaling
Quickly leverage the rapid scale out of a common cloud platform across both on-premises and the public cloud locations.
Consistent management
Use the same interface as the Nutanix Prism management solution to control day-to-day operations, reporting and analytics across all your locations.
Unified policies
Apply consistent security, encryption, replication, deduplication, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) policies through Nutanix Prism and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) for all locations.
Flexible modernization
Enhance workloads at your pace with Kubernetes, database, AI, and other Nutanix services while integrating with native cloud services.
Cost-effective BCDR
Reduce your BCDR solution costs by leveraging the public cloud as a recovery site, which eliminates the like-for-like need for secondary or tertiary on-premises datacenters.
Enhanced cost awareness
Improve visibility into cloud consumption with a heterogeneous cloud cost-governance solution that provides actionable recommendations for cost reduction.
Simplified IT modernization
Leverage your public cloud commitments to simplify IT modernization initiatives without requiring new on-premises infrastructure or lengthy hardware delays.
Optimized resource utilization
Reduce microwaste with t-shirt sized cloud-native VMs and enhance cost efficiency by oversubscribing resources across VMs.
What you get with NC2
Accelerate migration and modernization
Seamlessly migrate apps and data to public cloud more quickly than other methods with minimal risk. Flexibly modernize with Nutanix Kubernetes, database services, and AI, and integrate with native cloud services.
Simplify cloud operations
Standardize operations with familiar Nutanix workflows for consistent management, governance, and security across all environments.
Increase cloud efficiency
Enjoy consistent automation and lifecycle management for VMs and containers through a unified control plane that boosts operational efficiency. Its capabilities for rightsizing and oversubscribing VMs and containers optimizes capacity utilization and reduces cloud costs.
Mitigate Risk
Reduce exposure to rising hardware costs and lengthy delays by shifting targeted workloads to stable cloud bare‑metal infrastructure.
How NC2 Works
As an extension of the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), NC2 replicates the core Nutanix software used on-premises in public cloud hyperscale environments, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and OVHcloud. This means users benefit from the same virtualized, software-defined advantages in private and public clouds.
With NC2, NCP users can seamlessly move VM-encapsulated applications to the public cloud of their choice without refactoring, re-architecting or developing new skill sets. It’s a simple way to take advantage of the strengths of private and public clouds for optimum treatment of each application.
NC2 is natively integrated with leading public cloud hyperscale services. The differences and complexities of these platforms are hidden from IT administrators by an abstraction layer. This layer makes viewing and managing a mix of Nutanix public and private clouds appear as a single, unified cloud while giving IT administrators control over where applications are deployed.
