Nutanix Cloud Platform Software Options

Introduction to Nutanix Software Solutions

Nutanix introduces its core software packages, focused on delivering a unified cloud platform to run applications and manage data anywhere. These options are structured to meet diverse business needs, from basic infrastructure to advanced solutions for hybrid clouds and specialized workloads. The Nutanix Cloud Platform offers various editions to address your infrastructure needs with the appropriate feature set.

You can choose from the following licensing tiers: Starter, Pro, and Ultimate. For more details, please visit the Nutanix Software Options page.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a complete software package designed to consolidate hybrid cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, virtualization management, and containers, across public or enterprise clouds. NCI integrates resilience, self-healing, security, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Package	STARTER	PRO	ULTIMATE
Features	Core feature set	Rich data services, management capabilities	Full range of capabilities
Ideal for	Small on-premises deployments	Running multiple apps or large workloads	Multi-site deployments, enhanced security

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) simplifies building and scaling cloud deployments faster with intelligent operations, self-service offerings, cost management, and security across multi-cloud solutions.

Package	STARTER	PRO	ULTIMATE
Ideal for	AIOps infrastructure: monitoring, automation	Multi-cloud IaaS, cost management	Enterprise deployments, enhanced security

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is a platform that consolidates data services including file, object, and block storage, built for scalability and performance with advanced data services.

NUS can be deployed in hybrid mode (requires NCI/NCP license) or dedicated mode (requires only NUS license). Licensing is per usable TiB.

Package	STARTER	PRO
Ideal for	Backup, storage, video surveillance	AI/ML, big data analytics, production

Nutanix Database Service (NDB)

Nutanix Database Service (NDB) is a hybrid multi-cloud DBaaS platform that integrates databases into software development, reducing administrative overhead and ensuring performance.

NDB is licensed per core, applicable to physical clusters (including NCI Ultimate) or per VM (requires separate NCI).

Package	vCPU	Physical Cluster
NCI Features		X
NDB Features	X	X

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) simplifies Kubernetes management, reduces complexity, and ensures consistency across all environments.

Package	STARTER	PRO	ULTIMATE
Ideal for	Quick Kubernetes deployment	Production-ready applications	Multi-cluster management

Nutanix Enterprise AI

Nutanix Enterprise AI, through GPT-in-a-Box 2.0, provides easy deployment of large language models (LLM) with secure APIs to connect GenAI applications.

Package	PRO
Ideal for	AI deployment with secure APIs

NAI offers three packages: GPT-in-a-Box 2.0, Bare Metal, and Stand-Alone, licensed per CPU core or GPU RAM.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure - VDI

NCI-VDI provides infrastructure for VDI and DaaS, licensed per concurrent user, supporting Citrix, VMware Horizon, and offering free DR.

Package	VDI STARTER	VDI PRO	VDI ULTIMATE
NCI Features	NCI Starter	NCI Pro	NCI Ultimate
Unified Storage	1 TiB	50 GB/user	100 GB/user

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure - Edge (NCI-Edge)

NCI-Edge is a solution for edge and ROBO deployments, licensed per VM (max 25 VMs, 96GB RAM/VM), without support for Cloud Native and Database Service add-ons.

Package	STARTER	PRO	ULTIMATE
NCI Features	NCI Starter	NCI Pro	NCI Ultimate
Max Nodes	5	5	5
Max VMs	25	25	25

Nutanix Cloud Manager - Edge (NCM-Edge)

NCM-Edge offers multi-cloud management for edge and small EUC deployments (max 25 VMs, 96GB/VM), with intelligent operations, self-service, and security.

Package	STARTER	PRO	ULTIMATE
Features	AIOps, reporting, automation	Self-service, cost management	Application blueprints, security

For more details, visit the Nutanix Software Options page or contact BeyondTS.

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