Next-gen Unified Architecture
Nutanix Cloud Manager 2.0 marks the first time customers see NCM as a truly unified product. Previously four siloed modules, the next-gen platform now presents a coherent build-operate-govern experience through a single management plane.
NCM 2.0 fundamentally re-architects the relationship between management and control planes by decoupling NCM services from Prism Central (PC). Instead of running as embedded services competing for PC resources, NCM now operates on a dedicated, scalable microservices platform. This separation eliminates resource contention, allows NCM and PC to be upgraded and scaled independently, and isolates failure domains for greater resiliency.
At the heart of NCM 2.0 is a new, cloud-native Unified Data Platform designed to break down silos between Intelligent Operations, Self-Service, and Security Central. Built on a modern Kubernetes® based stack utilizing high-performance technologies like ClickHouse, this platform ingests and correlates diverse telemetry—including metrics, configuration data, logs, alerts, events, and audits—at enterprise scale. By consolidating these data streams into a single reliable layer, the platform powers full-stack observability and enables advanced capabilities like cross-domain analytics and high-fidelity reporting that were previously fragmented across separate tools.
NCM 2.0 introduces a "One Platform, One Experience" model by tightly integrating with the Nutanix Central (NC) On-Premises solution. In this architecture, NC serves as the unified entry point, routing all UI and API traffic and providing shared platform services—specifically Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Global Categories—across the NCM portfolio. This integration not only simplifies the user experience by embedding NCM directly within the NC console but also delivers a sovereign cloud control plane, enabling a unified operating model without dependencies on external SaaS connectivity.
High-availability with Flexibility
With a five-worker VM deployment form-factor supporting up to 10,000 VMs running workloads, NCM 2.0 platform is fault-tolerant against single-VM failures, with k8s control plane HA and Nutanix AHV hypervisor-level guarantees against physical node failure — providing high-availability for the management plane to support regulatory and compliance objectives for mission-critical workloads.
Built‑in backup and restore protects NCM configuration data with the option to restore onto the same or a new cluster. Administrators can schedule backups so critical policies and configurations can be recovered quickly after incidents.
The upcoming NCM 2.1 release will introduce a 3-node "Small" deployment for managing fewer than 2,500 VMs. The full NCM service portfolio — build, operate, govern, plus Nutanix Central — runs in this footprint, with high availability included. This form-factor option is ideal for managing edge and mid-sized deployments.
Ultimately, Nutanix Cloud Manager 2.0 and 2.1 will redefine hybrid multi-cloud management by delivering a truly unified, cloud-native, scalable, and resilient architecture to manage mission-critical workloads.
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