Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) delivers a hybrid multicloud platform with the flexibility, simplicity, and cost efficiency needed to run applications in private or public clouds, operated as a true single cloud. NC2 runs the core Nutanix HCI stack (including Nutanix AOS, AHV and Prism), along with other Nutanix products and services, on bare metal instances in public clouds allowing customers to easily migrate or extend applications from on-premises to public cloud providers.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
Unify Your Private and Public Clouds
Reduce the operational complexity of hybrid multiclouds for a simpler, faster and more cost-effective way to run, manage and operate apps, data and AI across clouds.
Hybrid cloud simplified
Simplify IT operations with a single software-defined cloud platform deployed on-premises and in the public cloud. This enables you to move your apps and data across clouds with zero code changes.
Accelerate migration and modernization
Quickly migrate apps and data to public cloud with minimal risk and modernize with Nutanix services and native cloud services.
Simplify cloud operations
A simpler IT ops model with common UI, CLI and APIs across on-premises and public clouds.
Increase cloud efficiency
Bare-metal nodes increase density with full app rightsizing flexibility to reduce public cloud cost.
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What's new
Accelerate cloud adoption
Move workloads across clouds
Intelligent workload placement gives you the flexibility to move apps and data across clouds without modification wherever they are required.
High performance and resilience
The same Nutanix Cloud Platform software layer is used on-premises and in the cloud to deliver high-resilience and high-performance for apps and data.
Easy license portability
Nutanix license portability enables you to move your Nutanix investment with you between clouds, on-premises core datacenters and edge environments.
Simplify cloud operations
Management consistency
Manage VMs, containers and storage in a consistent management plane across on-premises and the public cloud.
Consistent security model
Extend on-premises security policies, user permissions and access controls across the hybrid multicloud environment.
Flexible networking integration
Run Nutanix software in your existing cloud accounts without complex and costly network overlays.
Increase cloud efficiency
Automatic, on-demand capacity scaling
Quickly scale-out and shrink-back capacity on-demand or automatically as resource demands change.
Intelligent cloud infrastructure
The NC2 cloud control plane intelligently builds clusters of bare-metal nodes.
Seamless data mobility with MST DR
Seamlessly offload snapshots from on-prem clusters to AWS S3, spin up a secondary cluster on-demand for disaster recovery, and recover anywhere that NCP runs.
NC2 availability
NC2 hybrid cloud use cases
Migrate and Modernize
Quickly migrate apps and data to public cloud, and modernize with Nutanix Kubernetes, database services, and AI, plus integrate with native cloud services.
Cloud Disaster Recovery
Cut the cost and complexity of maintaining on-premises DR sites with a one-click multitiered solution that uses on-demand elasticity to the public cloud.
Datacenter Extension
Rapidly expand on-demand capacity for geographic expansion, VDI workloads, seasonal workloads, dev/test, M&A, and services integration.
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Eliminate waste and resource over-provisioning using the public cloud to meet your impact and sustainability objectives.
Learn about NC2 pricing options
Pricing and licensing options include flexible bring-your-own-license (BYOL) that features Nutanix license portability between on-premises environments and the public cloud, and on-demand pay-as-you-go (PAYG) licenses.
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Take Nutanix Cloud Clusters for a test drive
Experience the ease and simplicity of moving apps and workloads to the public cloud.
Frequently asked questions
NC2 is currently Generally Available on AWS and Microsoft Azure and in public preview on Google Cloud.
NC2 is different because it’s the same. NC2 uses the same data and management planes on-premises and in multiple clouds. With one management console for all locations, the operational complexity of migrating or extending applications and data is dramatically reduced. Additional differentiated benefits include:
- Licenses are portable across clouds, so no new licenses are required if migrating VMs, application, or data.
- NC2 can be deployed in just a few hours, greatly accelerating migration or data center extension use cases.
- NC2 is not a managed service. Customers control when, where, and how to deploy or repatriate.
NC2 is designed to be stand alone without needing any other further investments from Nutanix. If you want to connect your on-premises and your cloud environments, it is fully supported and easy to do.
Customers pay Nutanix for Nutanix software and pay Amazon or Microsoft for cloud resources consumed.
Nutanix software on Clusters can be consumed in the following ways:
- BYO Licenses - Bring your own term based licenses that you currently own or are purchasing. This allows customers to port their on premises licenses to NC2. Note, AOS License must be Pro or Ultimate; AOS Starter cannot be used with NC2
- PAYG - Pay as you go per hour on cores/hr and SSD/hr.
- Cloud Commit - Term based minimum commit with overages.
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NC2 offers you an easy way to get started using the Test Drive, which provides a 30 minute self-guided tour. All Nutanix and public cloud infrastructure costs are covered by Nutanix during the test drive time period (availability up to 8 hrs).
If you are ready to go, current customers can use their existing account at https://my.nutanix.com/, or a new account can be created. A My Nutanix account allows you to access, manage, and use NC2. From there, you can start a 30-day free trial for NC2, subscribe to one of the payment plan options, or use your existing Nutanix licenses for NC2. You simply need to add your cloud account of choice and start deploying Nutanix Cloud Clusters. Our support portal has additional technical information such as available node types and region availability. We encourage you to reach out to your local sales team for further assistance.