With ongoing changes in the VMware ecosystem, organizations are under pressure to reassess costs, manage risk, and rebalance workloads across on-premises and public cloud environments. Nutanix can help at any stage of your journey. Here are 10 reasons to choose Nutanix to simplify and accelerate your migration while staying in control of cost and risk.
Refactoring apps to run natively in the public cloud as part of a cloud migration is time-consuming, costly, and risky. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) makes it simple to rehost VMware apps in the cloud on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud without replatforming or refactoring, minimizing technical, operational, and financial challenges.
The migration of VMs from VMware ESXi to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor is straightforward with no code changes or lengthy transformation programs. NC2 leverages high-performance bare metal compute and NVMe storage to support peak app performance in the public cloud. After you make the move you can reassess which application make good candidates to refactor with Nutanix Kubernetes Platform or other native cloud tooling.
As an example, by running apps and data in the public cloud on NC2, we reduced the amount of time needed to migrate to native Azure VM instances by about 17 months, or 94%, for a financial institution customer.
Configure infrastructure, migrate VMware workloads, and keep apps up and running quickly and efficiently. Nutanix Move now supports both on-premises-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud migrations, enabling you to move workloads from VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS and Azure VMware Solution (AVS) directly to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). The Nutanix Move migration solution takes the pain and complexity out of migrating apps from VMware with advanced automation and full migration and cutover control – including batch-processed migrations. Move support for Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters (GC2) on AWS GovCloud is also available for customers in highly regulated industries.
Move is included with all NCI subscriptions at no additional cost. But there is also an expanding ecosystem of partner tools from vendors like Carbonite, CirrusData, Fluidcloud, Rackware, ReadyWorks, and RiverMeadow that bring powerful, specialized toolsets to the table, as well as migration to native virtualization instances. And don’t forget that many data protection technologies that also work with NC2 have migration capabilities, so you may be able to utilize existing skills for your cloud migration.
We make it easy for VMware administrators to adapt to Nutanix and hit the ground running, which minimizes the need to add staff with specialized cloud skills. Whether you’re running Nutanix in the cloud or on-premises, management is consistent, including networking and security.
Because NC2 is not a managed service, you retain control over infrastructure and apps running in the cloud. And you can implement software upgrades and patches whenever you want without being subject to a cloud provider’s timetable.
It’s really easy to use the Nutanix platform. After working with it for just a few days, I told my colleagues that Nutanix works the way that VMware should.
In the datacenter, many administrators oversize application VMs “just in case,” but that approach in the cloud can lead to high monthly charges. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) uses machine intelligence to optimize and rightsize cloud resources on an ongoing basis. NCM also helps you plan and predict capacity requirements with its Capacity Runway feature that includes “what if” scenario planning to help make sure you're making the best use of your resources both now, and in the future.
Furthermore, by sharing resources across workloads on NC2, IT teams can optimize overprovisioning. A banking customer reported a “39% savings in the total cost of operations over native public cloud”.
It can be hard to determine the number of licenses you need for each location with accuracy. Get the allocation wrong and you’re potentially wasting money. Nutanix solves this challenge with full license mobility. Move licenses between datacenters and public clouds as needed to address changing operational requirements without costs associated with relicensing.
Alternatively, you can use your committed cloud spend to purchase Nutanix software licenses through the cloud marketplaces for use with NC2 in the public cloud. Furthermore, because some 3rd party software can be licensed at the physical core level, NC2 solutions can facilitate savings on operating system and database licenses.
Enterprise apps in the data center typically gain resiliency from the underlying infrastructure, but this capability may not be available in native public cloud, at least not without a level of rearchitecting. NC2 delivers all the resiliency capabilities you expect from a datacenter class solution, including high availability, site recovery, self-healing, built-in data protection, and disaster recovery orchestration.
The NC2 solution also benefits from flexibility and on-demand delivery of cloud infrastructure. Because NC2 is delivered as a software solution running in your cloud tenant, not a managed service, you don’t have to wait for manual hardware replacement or remediation.
You need a cloud infrastructure that supports traditional and cloud-native apps. Nutanix runs VMs and containers to help you integrate with cloud services to smooth your path to cloud-native. Choose your preferred Kubernetes® distro and the latest tooling to support development and production needs for cutting-edge apps and AI. Crucially, Nutanix enables customers to operate one platform with the same team for all workloads, whether they’re legacy databases, VMs, containers or AI.
Easy integration with public cloud services jumpstarts app modernization, or you can deploy the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and / or Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) across your hybrid cloud estate for a unified app modernization, wherever you need it.
Bring the same enterprise-grade performance and data management you trust on-premises to your public cloud environments. For block storage, Nutanix offers AOS Storage software with efficient snapshotting, cloning, replication, data reduction, and other services to simplify your cloud transition. For File and Object Storage requirements, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) offers an integrated solution, either running on AOS, or on public cloud IaaS.
Nutanix Database Service makes it easy to deploy and manage databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle in the cloud of your choice. With Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), you can run these same enterprise-class storage and database services in public clouds like AWS and Azure, designed to help provide consistent performance and operations across your hybrid environment without needing to refactor applications.
Deliver consistent, high-touch support for your critical applications, wherever they run. With industry-leading support and professional services – including a full suite of migration services – Nutanix can provide the assistance you need to migrate your VMware environment to the cloud quickly and easily. Nutanix has earned a 10-year average net promoter score of 90, demonstrating consistently high levels of customer satisfaction. That's one more reason you can choose Nutanix with confidence.
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