Dat a s he e t
Nutanix AHV is
Webscale Virtualization
Overview Key Benefits
The hypervisor is the foundation of modern IT. Virtual Machines (VMs) and • Simple: Deploy, upgrade, patch,
containers abstract applications from the underlying hardware so that they can and provision VMs in one-click
be dynamically provisioned, upgraded, and managed at scale. This paradigm is
central across both traditional enterprise IT as well as modern cloud-native • Powerful: Native, modern,
applications, but until recently these two delivery models were siloed. feature-rich
AHV brings these two worlds together, with an open-source foundation • Built-In: Included at no
extended with advanced enterprise features, and integrated into an HCI additional cost
framework with built-in storage and networking capabilities for a complete,
seamless solution. • Cloud Native: Built for the cloud
and cloud-operating model
With simple and intuitive provisioning and management of VMs, containers,
business-critical applications and cloud-native operations and workloads, AHV • Easy to learn: Consumer-grade
enables a consistent hybrid cloud operating model across datacenters, the interface
edge, and public clouds.
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• Secure: Integrated and
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• Intelligent: Nutanix Life Cycle
Public Cloud
Manager (LCM) software, driver,
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Private
Edge / Datacenter
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Fig. 1 AHV Powers the Hybrid Cloud
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Product Advantages
Public Cloud Providers utilize hypervisors to support multi-tenancy and to
allocate their physical compute resources efficiently. They are designed to be
lightweight and typically aren’t designed to meet SLAs for traditional IT
applications, such as VM High Availability or automatic workload balancing.
Like public cloud hypervisors,
In contrast, traditional IT organizations require feature-rich VM operations
and are designed to integrate with a wide range of both modern and legacy AHV is lightweight,
enterprise IT products. Typically requiring specialists to set up, manage, API-programmable, and
integrate, and patch. includes integrated storage,
AHV enables the seamless consolidation of these two divergent VM networking, and automation
deployment models. Built into Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, AHV is integrated services, for both VMs
and optimized for full stack performance, resiliency, and efficiency, and like
and containers.
traditional enterprise hypervisors it includes the advanced virtualization
features needed to meet strict IT SLAs. Like public cloud hypervisors, AHV is
lightweight, API-programmable, and includes integrated storage, networking,
and automation services, for both VMs and Containers.
Features and Capabilities
• Ease of Management: One-click installs, upgrades, and unified management
across the full stack with Prism
• Resiliency for IT Apps: HA, Live Migration and Dynamic Scheduling, workload
and host affinity and anti-affinity, seamlessly integrated storage snapshots
and DR, and Metro Clustering.
• Cloud-Native Services: Kubernetes support with built-in NKE (Nutanix
Kubernetes Engine) or your choice of ecosystem partner, plus storage
and database services, and VPCs for seamless workload migration and
multi-tenancy
• Broad Compute Support: Both Intel and AMD CPUs, vNUMA, vTPM, with
automated CPU compatibility for seamless hardware upgrades and
workload migrations
• Advanced VM Management and Operations: VM templates, RBAC,
orchestration including 3rd party automation tools, flexible DR,
microsegmentation, optimized storage paths, built-in security and GPU/
vGPU integration, to name a few.
• Broad Ecosystem Support: Over 770 validated solutions from multiple
vendors that include:
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NCI Licenses Include AHV, Available as Starter, Pro, or Ultimate License Tiers.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a complete software stack to unify your hybrid cloud infrastructure including
compute, storage and network, hypervisors and containers, in public or enterprise clouds; all with built-in resilience,
self-healing, disaster recovery capabilities, and security. It includes enterprise data services and consolidated storage,
data protection and disaster recovery, native virtualization and container management, networking and security.
Starter Pro Ultimate
Enterprise Virtualization
Credential Guard
Enterprise Compute
vGPU and GPU Passthrough
HA Guaranteed Failover
Limit one managed
Limit one managed Kubernetes
Nutanix Kubernetes Engine cluster per NCI cluster
Kubernetes cluster per NCI cluster,
Cloud Native add-on license
Disaster Recovery Adv Replication add-on license
Networking & Security
Overlay Networking
Microsegmentation Security add-on license
Nutanix Security Central Security add-on license
Starter: Ideal for small-scale deployments with a limited set of workloads
Pro: Ideal for running multiple applications or large-scale single workload deployments (on-prem or in public clouds)
Ultimate: Ideal for multi-site deployments and advanced security requirements (on-prem or in public clouds)
*For clusters running third-party hypervisors, NCI-Data licenses are available that don’t include AHV
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