Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is the Hyperconverged Infrastructure which brings together the Virtual Compute, Storage and Networking of the physical nodes into a single resource pool of the cluster which can consumed by applications hosted on top of it.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure brings the power of simplicity by providing a single console to manage your computer, storage and networking. HCI also enables Enterprises to manage their Infrastructure and utilise their Resources more efficiently.

Components of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure includes:

1. Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV): Acropolis Hypervisor is Nutanix’s Type-1 Hypervisor installed on Bare Metal on-prem Hosts or on the Bare Metal Instances of Public Clouds to deliver the Virtualization capabilities.
2. Acropolis Operating System (AOS): Acropolis Operating System (AOS) is the software which runs inside the Controller Nodes (CVM) of Nutanix and delivers the storage capabilities
3. Prism: Prism is the Management software which provides the capabilities of managing an individual cluster using Prism Element UI and the functionality of managing multiple clusters using Prism Central UI.
4. Flow Network Security (FNS): Flow Network Security is the Network Security stack which helps Enterprises to secure their network by enhancing Application security and protecting the user workload
5. Disaster Recovery: Nutanix Disaster Recovery which was formerly known as Leap delivers the Synchronous, NearSync and Asynchronous replication capabilities for the workload to protect from site failures
6. Lifecycle Manager (LCM): The capabilities of managing the updates and upgrades of the Hyperconverged Infrastructure & for the HW Firmware is delivered using Lifecycle Manager.
7. Nutanix Kubernetes Enginer (NKE): Nutanix Kubernetes Engine is a kubernetes Management Platform which provides the capabilities of provisioning Kubernetes upstream conformant clusters and to manage the lifecycle of these K8s clusters.
8. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS): Nutanix Unifies Storage is responsible for providing highly scalable enterprise level unified storage platform which can deliver Block, File and Object Storage.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has its own SKU of Software Licenses which can be applied to the Nutanix environment with respective editions to leverage the above mentioned features.

In the upcoming blogs we’ll talk about each of these Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) components in greater details along with demos. Happy Learning!