We are excited to share a major milestone in hybrid cloud operations: the Nutanix Cloud Manager™ (NCM) Solution 2.x! With NCM 2.0 live and NCM 2.1 coming soon, NCM 2.x fits your infrastructure, offering a medium footprint for up to roughly 10,000 VMs today, and an upcoming 3-node "Small" deployment in NCM 2.1 that brings high-availability to edge environments managing fewer than about 2,500 VMs.
Here is a quick breakdown of how NCM 2.x helps you Build, Operate, and Govern across your entire estate:
🛡️ Sovereign Control & Enterprise Resilience
NCM 2.x puts digital sovereignty first by deploying directly inside Nutanix Central, which means that Nutanix Central is now required for all NCM 2.x Deployments. This gives you greater ownership of your management infrastructure and a unified operating model. Cost Governance is also coming on-premises, which allows dark-site customers to use this capability. Additionally, to help keep your policies stay safe, built-in backup and restore functionality allows you to schedule automated configuration backups for rapid recovery onto any cluster.
🌐 Multi-Site Operations
NCM 2.0 evolves into a multi‑site manager that spans multiple Prism Centrals and VMware vCenters, centralizing VM and cluster inventory, alerts, events, audits, and signals so you can define alert policies and playbooks once and apply them across domains. Additionally, a new Common Account Onboarding Service helps you streamline Day‑0 and Day‑1 setup.
📊 Smarter Insights & Tailored Automation
We are making observability and self-service highly customizable to fit your specific environment:
- Advanced Metrics: Over 50 pre-aggregated capacity metrics track business-relevant stats rather than just raw hardware data.
- Global Variables: Define automation inputs once and securely reuse them across various Self-Service blueprints and runbooks.
- Custom Control (NCM 2.1): You will be able to build mathematical Custom Metrics for proactive alerting, design role-specific Custom Dashboards with one-click reporting, and utilize Custom Forms to simplify launch parameters for end-users while maintaining backend controls.
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