Modernize your IT infrastructure while protecting existing hardware investments by using Nutanix Cloud Platform with the external storage you already own. On the heels of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, the twin spectres of rising costs and restrictive licensing are compelling organizations to explore alternatives, but traditional migrations often require disruptive, capital-intensive hardware refreshes. By connecting Nutanix-certified compute nodes to existing enterprise storage via high-speed Ethernet (NVMe/TCP or NFS), you can modernize management and hypervisor layers on your own timeline. This disaggregated, software-defined cloud stack decouples compute from tier-1 storage assets, delivering cloud agility and operational simplicity without forcing an expensive storage overhaul. Break the deadlock of legacy vendor lock-in, optimize ROI on previous storage investments, and streamline operations with a seamless, low-risk path to infrastructure modernization.
Break free from the technical rigidity and avoid skyrocketing renewal fees. By transitioning to the modern Nutanix platform, you can escape infrastructure lock-in while maintaining the performance of your existing enterprise storage arrays. Our solution enables a smooth hypervisor transition, allowing you to connect Nutanix compute nodes directly to your current storage to move VMs to AHV with minimal disruption. Leveraging high-speed Ethernet transport protocols like NVMe/TCP and NFS simplifies your network architecture and drives cost efficiency by mitigating the need for fragmented storage layers.
The Nutanix full-stack cloud infrastructure solution provides multi-vendor interoperability across a validated ecosystem, including leading vendors such as Dell and Everpure (with NetApp and Lenovo integrations announced for future release). This flexibility allows you to mix and match supported server platforms with your existing arrays, maximizing hardware lifecycles, enabling a high return on your hardware investment while avoiding supply-chain delays. By decoupling the hypervisor from the storage hardware, Nutanix empowers your organization to innovate on its own timeline, providing a platform that delivers comparable performance to both enterprise virtual machines and cloud-native containers, with native simplicity.
Break down infrastructure silos and management complexity by unifying networking, security, and storage workflows onto a single, automated control plane. Nutanix Prism provides one-click lifecycle management and granular, VM-centric controls to boost operational efficiency. This unification can strengthen your security posture, hardening your infrastructure with platform-native controls and delivering data encryption, immutable snapshots, and automated configuration management. Integrated Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking and Flow Network Security replace complex, siloed hardware by enforcing granular microsegmentation directly within the hypervisor layer. Beyond simplified management, this architecture enables resilient, automated disaster recovery, allowing you to orchestrate failover and testing from a single console to help maintain application availability.
This software-defined approach is the solution for scaling high-performance workloads without compromise. You can tailor compute power independently of storage capacity, right-sizing resources to meet specific throughput demands. By standardizing on Ethernet-based protocols, Nutanix unifies your environment, helps reduce administrative overhead, and allows your team to retain advanced array-level capabilities through a modern, policy-driven platform. This balance of simplicity and performance helps ensure your infrastructure is resilient, secure, and ready for future business needs.
Don't let legacy constraints hold your business back. Embrace the operational simplicity and architectural flexibility of Nutanix with external storage to modernize your infrastructure on your terms.
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