
Nutanix Azure Solutions for Hybrid Cloud Computing offer a seamless way to deploy and manage applications across multiple clouds and on-premises environments. This allows businesses to choose the best cloud for each application, while maintaining a consistent management experience.
Nutanix's platform provides a single pane of glass for managing all cloud resources, including Azure, allowing for simplified management and reduced complexity.
With Nutanix on Azure, businesses can take advantage of Azure's scalability and cost-effectiveness, while also leveraging Nutanix's enterprise-grade features and support. This combination provides a robust and secure platform for running mission-critical applications.
Nutanix's hybrid cloud solutions are designed to be highly available and fault-tolerant, ensuring that applications remain accessible even in the event of outages or failures.
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Benefits and Features
Establishing a consistent hybrid deployment strategy is key to unlocking the benefits of Azure with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). By doing so, you can operate seamlessly with on-premises Nutanix Clusters in Azure.
You can build and scale without constraints, thanks to the flexibility that aligns with your needs. This is especially useful for businesses with ever-evolving needs.
Some of the benefits of using NC2 on Azure include: establishing a consistent hybrid deployment strategy, operating seamlessly with on-premises Nutanix Clusters in Azure, building and scaling without constraints, inventing for today and being prepared for tomorrow with NC2 on Azure, and more.
Here are some specific benefits of NC2 on Azure:
- Optimize your investment
- Gain cloud cost efficiencies
- Modernize through the power of Azure
- Scale and flexibility that align with your needs
By leveraging your team's existing Nutanix skills and tools, you can migrate and extend Nutanix workloads to Azure with ease. This allows you to truly decouple apps from the underlying hardware platform and modernize at your own pace without disruption or complexity.
Being able to spin up or spin down Nutanix resources in Azure as needed is a great way to accommodate ever-evolving business needs.
Licensing and Partnership
You can bring your own on-premises capacity-based Nutanix licenses (CBLs) to pair with your Nutanix Azure setup.
Alternatively, you can purchase licenses from Nutanix or from Azure Marketplace to get started.
This flexibility in licensing options allows you to choose the best approach for your specific needs.
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Licensing

You can bring your own on-premises capacity-based Nutanix licenses (CBLs) to take advantage of existing investments. This option allows for a seamless transition to the cloud.
Alternatively, you can purchase licenses from Nutanix directly, which provides a convenient and streamlined process.
Partnership with Microsoft
In 2019, our company partnered with Microsoft to integrate their Azure cloud platform into our software.
This strategic partnership has enabled us to expand our reach and offer our customers more flexibility in terms of cloud storage and deployment options.
Microsoft Azure provides a scalable and secure environment for our customers to store and process their data.
As a result of this partnership, we've seen a significant increase in customer adoption and satisfaction.
Our customers can now choose to deploy our software on either our own infrastructure or on Microsoft Azure, giving them greater control and flexibility.
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Hybrid Cloud and Clusters
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure is a hybrid cloud solution that functions as a single cloud, allowing you to manage apps and infrastructure in your private cloud and Azure. This means you can seamlessly move your apps between on-premises and Azure.
You can use your existing Nutanix software and licenses across your on-premises cluster and Azure, eliminating the need for complex network overlays. This is a major advantage, as it saves time and resources.
With NC2, you can port your existing term licenses to NC2 on Azure or get on-demand consumption of Nutanix software through the Azure Marketplace. This flexibility in consumption models allows you to gain additional cost efficiencies with reservations or commitment-based discounts.
Here are some key benefits of using NC2 on Azure:
- Establish a consistent hybrid deployment strategy
- Operate seamlessly with on-premises Nutanix Clusters in Azure
- Build and scale without constraints
- Invent for today and be prepared for tomorrow with NC2 on Azure
- Scale and flexibility that align with your needs
- Optimize your investment
- Gain cloud cost efficiencies
- Modernize through the power of Azure
NC2 on Azure also allows you to spin up or spin down Nutanix resources in Azure as needed, accommodating ever-evolving business needs. This is a great way to gain access to native Azure services, improve disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, and provide on-demand elasticity without hardware or datacenter capacity constraints.
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Responsibility Matrix
NC2 on Azure implements a shared responsibility model that defines distinct roles and responsibilities of the three parties involved in the offering: the Customer, Microsoft, and Nutanix.
The customer is responsible for supporting all the hardware and software for running the Nutanix platform in on-premises environments.
Microsoft maintains the hardware for the customer in NC2 on Azure, specifically managing the Azure BareMetal specialized compute hardware and its data and control plane platform for underlay network.
Microsoft also supports customers who plan to bring their existing Azure Subscription, VNet, vWAN, etc.
Nutanix covers the life-cycle management of Nutanix software, including MCM, Prism Central/Element, and their licenses.
Microsoft continuously monitors the health of the underlay and BareMetal infrastructure, taking action to repair failed services if detected.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which cloud does Nutanix use?
Nutanix supports multiple cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and its own on-premises infrastructure. You can deliver desktops and apps from any of these clouds to users worldwide.
What exactly does Nutanix do?
Nutanix simplifies IT operations by providing a single platform to run apps and data across multiple clouds. This hybrid multicloud solution powers efficient and cost-effective environments for businesses worldwide.
Does Azure Migrate support Nutanix?
Yes, Azure Migrate supports migration to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure. You can prepare and migrate Azure VMs to AHV and Azure to NC2 using the Move feature.
Sources
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/about-nc2-on-azure
- https://www.nutanixbible.com/10b-book-of-nutanix-clusters-azure.html
- https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/nutanix-partners-rejoice-bare-metal-on-azure-strategically-a-great-thing
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/industry/blog/technetuk/2023/05/10/get-started-with-nutanix-cloud-clusters-on-azure/
- https://www.dqchannels.com/nutanix-announces-partnership-microsoft-azure/
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