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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Editions Explained

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a comprehensive software stack designed to unify hybrid cloud infrastructures, offering features such as resilience, disaster recovery, and security across compute, storage, and networking. It provides three software editions—Starter, Pro, and Ultimate—each tailored for different deployment scales and complexity levels. NCI includes enterprise data services, consolidated storage, advanced orchestration, and networking capabilities, making it suitable for various enterprise needs.

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  • virtualization,
  • starter edition,
  • data-at-rest encryption,
  • insights,
  • data tiering,
  • networking,
  • enterprise data services,
  • erasure coding,
  • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure,
  • self-healing
109 views6 pages

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Editions Explained

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a comprehensive software stack designed to unify hybrid cloud infrastructures, offering features such as resilience, disaster recovery, and security across compute, storage, and networking. It provides three software editions—Starter, Pro, and Ultimate—each tailored for different deployment scales and complexity levels. NCI includes enterprise data services, consolidated storage, advanced orchestration, and networking capabilities, making it suitable for various enterprise needs.

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mahdibahriz85
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© © All Rights Reserved
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Topics covered

  • virtualization,
  • starter edition,
  • data-at-rest encryption,
  • insights,
  • data tiering,
  • networking,
  • enterprise data services,
  • erasure coding,
  • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure,
  • self-healing

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)

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.

NCI Overview NCI-D Overview

NCI Software Editions

STARTER PRO ULTIMATE

The full suite of


Rich data services,
Core set of Nutanix software
resilience and
software capabilities to tackle
management
functionality complex infrastructure
features
challenges

Running multiple
Small-scale applications or Multi-site deployments
deployments large-scale single and advanced security
Ideal For with a limited set workload requirements (on-
of workloads (on- deployments (on- prem or in public
prem only) prem or in public clouds)
clouds)

Enterprise Data Services

STARTER PRO ULTIMATE

Max Cluster Size 12 >12* >12*


STARTER PRO ULTIMATE

Heterogeneous
Clusters

VM-centric Snapshots
& Clones

Data Tiering

Online Cluster
Grow/Shrink

Data Path
Redundancy

Tunable Redundancy
2 2 or 3 2 or 3
Factor

Availability Domains Node Node, Block, Rack Node, Block, Rack

Basic Compression
(LZ4) - Inline and post
process

Deep Compression
(LZ4HC) - Greater
efficiency for cold
data

Cache Deduplication

Capacity
Deduplication

Erasure Coding (EC-X)

VM Centric Storage
QoS

VM Flash Mode
STARTER PRO ULTIMATE

Consolidated Storage Services

Volume Groups - in-


cluster VMs

Volume Groups - Backup of Primary Primary AND Backup


external access Nutanix only AND Backup Uses Uses

Files/Objects
1 TiB Free
Storage (included 1 TiB Free Capacity 1 TiB Free Capacity
Capacity
capacity)

Cloud Storage
(Amazon EBS attach
for NC2 on AWS)

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Async Replication
(RPO = 1 hr or greater)

Application
Consistent Snapshots

Self-Service Restore

Multiple Site DR
Adv Replication
(many to one, one to
add-on license5
many, many to many)

Adv Replication
Metro Availability2
add-on license

Sync Replication (RPO Adv Replication


= 0)2 add-on license

NearSync Replication Adv Replication


(RPO = 1-15 min)1 add-on license
STARTER PRO ULTIMATE

Advanced
Orchestration with Adv Replication
Runbook add-on license
Automation2

Security

Client Authentication

Cluster Lockdown

Data-at-Rest
Security add-on
Encryption (Software-
license
based & SED)3

Security add-on
Native KMS3 license

Enterprise Compute

Nutanix AHV
Virtualization

Credential Guard

vGPU and GPU


Passthrough

HA Guaranteed
Failover

Nutanix Kubernetes
NKP Starter NKP Starter
Platform4

VM-Host Affinity
Policies
STARTER PRO ULTIMATE

Advanced Processor
Capability

Automatic Cluster
Placement

VM:VM Affinity

Cross-Cluster Live
Migration

Data Services for Kubernetes

Nutanix Data
App Centric local Nutanix Data Services
Services for
snapshots and restore for Kubernetes add-on
Kubernetes add-on

App Centric Nutanix Data


Nutanix Data Services
Asynchronous DR Services for
for Kubernetes add-on
(RPO > 1 hr) Kubernetes add-on

Networking and Network Security

Overlay Networking

Security add-on
Microsegmentation
license

Nutanix Security Security add-on


Central3 license

Management and Analytics

Multi-Cluster
management with
Prism Central

Infrastructure
management,
STARTER PRO ULTIMATE

monitoring and
health

Enterprise
authentication and
RBAC

REST APIs

Comprehensive
search

Insights

LCM

Foundation

Foundation Central

* Refer to Nutanix Configuration Maximums on the Nutanix portal

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