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  • March 17, 2026
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Dear Community members,

We are using Cisco HX with following specifications and are interested to know for the proposed nutanix configurations, we need to know the pros and cons on the proposed specs and also would like to know or need to discuss on future expensions.

HCI Configuration:

CPU 59.73%

120.42 GHz Consumed

201.6 GHz Total

96 Total Physical Cores

Memory 87.09%

1559 GiB Consumed

1790 GiB Total

Raw Storage 75.57%

13.48 TiB Consumed

17.84 TiB Total

Other Details

IOPS 4327

Read/Write Ratio

44/56

Estimated Daily Usage

28.25 GiB

 

Proposed Specications:

 

Part No

Description

Qty

NX-8170-G10-6515P-CM

NX-8170-G10, 1 Node; 2x Intel Xeon 6515P processor (2.3 GHz/ 16-core/ 150W, Granite Rapids SP) per node

3

C-MEM-32GB-6400-CM

32GB Memory Module (DDR5-6400 RDIMM)

72

C-NVM-7.68TB-AB1A-CM

7.68 TB NVMe SSD - PCIe Gen5 (U.2)

12

C-LOM-10G2D1BT-CM

LOM Module: Broadcom 10GbE, 2-port, Base-T NIC (BCM 57416)

3

C-NIC-25G2E1-CM

SMC 25/10GbE, 2-port, NIC(Intel E810); transceiver not included

3

C-PWR-4FC13C14A-CM

C13/C14, 10A, 4ft Power cord

6

C-CBL-NONE-CM

No Cables and No Transceivers

3

S-HW-NBS-PR

24x7 Hardware Support with Next Business day Ship Parts

3

C-TPM-2.0-U-C-CM

TPM 2.0 Module Unprovisioned

3

NX-8170-G10-6515P-CM

NX-8170-G10, 1 Node; 2x Intel Xeon 6515P processor (2.3 GHz/ 16-core/ 150W, Granite Rapids SP) per node

3

C-MEM-32GB-6400-CM

32GB Memory Module (DDR5-6400 RDIMM)

72

C-NVM-7.68TB-AB1A-CM

7.68 TB NVMe SSD - PCIe Gen5 (U.2)

12

C-LOM-10G2D1BT-CM

LOM Module: Broadcom 10GbE, 2-port, Base-T NIC (BCM 57416)

3

C-NIC-25G2E1-CM

SMC 25/10GbE, 2-port, NIC(Intel E810); transceiver not included

3

C-PWR-4FC13C14A-CM

C13/C14, 10A, 4ft Power cord

6

C-CBL-NONE-CM

No Cables and No Transceivers

3

S-HW-NBS-PR

24x7 Hardware Support with Next Business day Ship Parts

3

C-TPM-2.0-U-C-CM

TPM 2.0 Module Unprovisioned

3

Platform Integration

Platform Integration Fee

1

SW-NCI-STR-PR

Subscription, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
(NCI) Starter Software License &
Production Software Support Service for 1
CPU Core

192

Term-Months

Term in months

46

SW-NCM-STR-PR

Subscription, Nutanix Cloud Management
(NCM) Starter Software License &
Production Software Support Service for 1
CPU Core

192

Term-Months

Term in months

46

 

 

 

Questions:
Is NCI Starter sufficient for our growth?

Does the NCI license include the Nutanix Move tool?

What is the usable capacity after Resilience Factor 2 (RF2) and Nutanix Reserve?

Can we upgrade to NCI Pro/Ultimate later without a wipe?

We need to use our current Cisco HX for Nutanix DR, is this possible and do we incur additional cost for these?

if in nearby, we would like to use Nutanix HCI solution for additional purposes like Hybrid storage, what feature or license we would need?

 

Regards,

Suleman Khalil

+923212235677

 

 

6 replies

JeroenTielen
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Is NCI Starter sufficient for our growth?

  • Depends if you need additional features later, like synchronous replication, microsegmentation etc etc. We cant say that. 

Does the NCI license include the Nutanix Move tool?

  • Yes.

What is the usable capacity after Resilience Factor 2 (RF2) and Nutanix Reserve?

  • Total storage divided by 2 minus some overhead from the CVM. You can see that in the sizer report. 

Can we upgrade to NCI Pro/Ultimate later without a wipe?

  • Yes.

We need to use our current Cisco HX for Nutanix DR, is this possible and do we incur additional cost for these?

if in nearby, we would like to use Nutanix HCI solution for additional purposes like Hybrid storage, what feature or license we would need?


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  • Nutanix Employee
  • March 17, 2026

With Cisco HX gear being re-purposed it does require your Cisco Account team validate the hardware prior to setting up Nutanix as not all HX hardware is supported, and some parts may need to be removed, or swapped.

They should also be able to assist with these questions during that engagement.


  • Author
  • Voyager
  • March 18, 2026

thank you Jeroen and Jon.

We have Cisco HX220C-M5SX models.

 

we are ok with Async Replication (RPO = 1 hr).

 

Can anyone please review the proposed nutanix configuration and let me know the pros and cons on the proposed specs, much appriciated in advance.

 

 


JeroenTielen
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The proposed configuration cannot be reviewed via this medium. This has lots of aspects we dont know. If this proposal is created by a Nutanix sales rep then I'm assuming it is oke. Or else contact you local Nutanix Sales Engineer and het a chat with him to found out. 


  • Author
  • Voyager
  • March 18, 2026

Actually i do not have direct access to Nutanix expert guy, we got the quote via third party vendor.

Can anyone plz share local Nutanix team contact details in Pakistan.


JeroenTielen
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The third party vendor must know the sales engineer or (at least) the distributor. They must be able to help you further.