Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

When I hear the words clean room, my mind goes straight to Dexter — the TV show about a forensic blood spatter analyst who moonlights as a vigilante. His clean room is meticulous: sealed in plastic, no trace evidence, no contamination, nothing gets in or out. In some ways, it makes perfect sense as a metaphor. Dexter was in the business of containing and eliminating threats — and in the IT world, so are we. We are just going after ransomware actors instead of murderers. The plastic sheeting is a little different, but the principle is the same: isolate the threat completely before you do the work. Ransomware recovery used to mean one thing: restore from backup and hope for the best. That approach has a serious flaw — if your recovery environment connects to the same infected infrastructure you are restoring from, you risk reinfecting your clean data before you ever flip a switch. The answer is not faster backups. It is a clean room: an isolated, air-gapped environment where you can vali

Government Cloud Clusters customers now have a wider choice of AWS deployment locations when their security and authorization requirements do not call for AWS GovCloud. Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters (GC2) 1.2.0 now supports all 34 commercial AWS regions listed in the current NC2 on AWS support matrix. GC2 1.2.0 arrived as part of the July 2026 platform release cycle, support for AWS GovCloud US-East, AWS GovCloud US-West and AWS European Sovereign Cloud Germany remains in place. The full region matrix appears in the GC2 1.2.0 Deployment and User Guide.For some public-sector and regulated customers, that distinction is useful. Their systems may require FedRAMP or GovRAMP, formerly StateRAMP, related controls and an authorization path, but the workload itself may not require AWS GovCloud. Matching the deployment boundary to the workload AWS commercial US East and US West regions include services authorized at FedRAMP Class C, formerly Moderate. AWS also states that its East/West Mode

Our AHV cluster consists of 3 nodes (running AHV version 11.0.1 and AOS version 7.5.1.1).Node C (host IP: 192.168.155.236, CVM IP: 192.168.155.239) experienced an issue, so we re-imaged it using Foundation with new IP addresses (host IP: 192.168.155.229, CVM IP: 192.168.155.230). Node C is now running newer versions—AHV 11.1 and AOS 7.5—but attempts to add it back to the cluster have failed.Is there a way to add Node C back to the cluster?

An administrator is deploying an NC2 cluster on AWS in the us-west-2 region. A VPC, management subnet, and a VM subnet are already created in the target region.The management subnet has a local route and a route to the Internet. The VM subnet has a local route and a route to the NAT gateway. During the deployment, the management subnet appears in the drop-down list in the Create Cluster wizard, but cannot be selected.What is the cause of this problem?The subnet has an IPv4 CIDR block but does not have an IPv6 CIDR block.The subnet has a direct route to an Internet gateway.The subnet has both an IPv4 CIDR block and an IPv6 CIDR block.The subnet does not have route to a Site-to-Site VPN connection through a virtual private gateway.

I'm trying to deploy Prism Central (PC) from Prism Element (PE). Previously, I had registered a PC to the cluster and then unregistered it to redeploy a new one.However, during the new deployment, at the “Size and Scale” step, no selectable options (Small/Medium/Large) are shown — only the description text appears.Current situation:No dropdown or selectable options available No explicit error message Cluster is running normallyI'm not sure if this issue is related to the previous register/unregister of PC, or due to resource constraints, version mismatch, or a UI issue.Has anyone experienced this after unregistering PC? Is there any cleanup required on the cluster before redeploying Prism Central?

Cloud-based disaster recovery with Nutanix MST (Multi-cloud Snapshot Technology) gives organizations a cost-effective way to replicate VM snapshots to object storage targets like AWS S3, Azure Blob, or Nutanix Objects and recover workloads when it matters most. Object storage is purpose-built for durability and geographic distribution, which makes it an ideal replication target. The trade-off has always been recovery speed: pulling data back from object storage to the AOS cluster is slower than reading from local NVMe or SAN-backed storage, and for large workloads that gap translated into hours of hydration time before a recovered VM could power on. For latency-sensitive workloads including clinical applications, financial systems, and operational databases, that recovery window was the one remaining challenge to address.Nutanix Instant Restore changes the equation for MST-protected workloads. Now generally available in AOS and Prism Central 7.5.1, it decouples recovery from object sto

Hello,I have some hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV. Currently, we are starting a project that involves a full migration of our Nutanix environment from on-premises infrastructure to Azure NC2.I have been searching for an official step-by-step guide or a recommended migration workflow, but so far I have not been able to find a clear document that explains the correct process for planning and executing this migration.Could anyone please share documentation, best practices, or a high-level migration flow for moving workloads from Nutanix AHV to Azure NC2?Any guidance or references would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.

Hello has anyone used https://www.datamotive.io/ for a dr solution for AHV to AZURE ?  I am assuming they are new to this space. 

Hi all , Now i am deploying a new nutanix cluster with 10 all flash nodes and each node has 4 ssd disks so during my search in nutanix docs i noticed that nutanix marked up to 4 ssd disks in each node as a metadata disk so in my case it can sign at least 1 ssd disk for metadata and this disk can not be used for regular VMs Data  my question is  one of four ssd disks will be marked as a metadata disk and cannot be used for regular VMs Data ?

Hello Everyone,Iam learning NC2 on Azure from couple of months and preparing documents out of my learning, I need assistance in below queries if anyone can assist, would be really great !!! How do we manage Load Balancer Deployment in NC2 on Azure, Do we deploy LB in Hub VNET?  or how it is being deployed. Also How do we manage Firewall in NC2 on Azure.

The Challenge: Security Doesn't Travel Well Picture this scenario: You've meticulously crafted security policies protecting your critical three-tier application. Everything is perfectly segmented—web tier locked down, app tier secured, database tier isolated. Then disaster strikes, or you need to perform planned maintenance. You initiate a live migration or failover to your disaster recovery site.Your application arrives safely at the destination. But what about your security?In many environments, security policies don't automatically follow workloads. Security teams are left scrambling to manually recreate policies at the destination, or they rely on custom scripts that must be re-run before each failover event. Even with scripts, there's no real-time verification that VMs remain protected during and after migration.A misconfigured security policy on the target site could leave your application exposed. A missing firewall rule could create an attack vector. A forgotten script executio

Hey Community 👋NC2 on Google Cloud is officially here — and it’s bringing the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) to Google Cloud’s bare metal compute instances across the globe. This will not only enable organizations to build a hybrid cloud with another Hyperscaler, but it will also allow IT teams to consume Nutanix software through the Google Marketplace and accelerate their use of Google’s market leading AI and big data solutions. 🧭 What’s New?●  Google Cloud is now available in the NC2 Portal: Simply connect to your Google Cloud Project and provision a cluster, just like with AWS and Azure.●  NC2 should also be available in the Google Cloud Marketplace in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more information on that!●  A Tech Note and User Guide are live on the support portal to help you understand how to get started.●  Move qualification: Get your NC2 migration from on premises ESXi and AHV started with Nutanix Move.●      NKP has already been qualified and is supported on NC2 on Go

NC2 on Azure Deployment Pre-requisites-Hello Everyone,I started Nutanix Learning 2 months back and there are few questions which I am unable to find answers for, it would be great to hear from you guys, below are the questions I have-What kind of subscription one should have to create NC2 on AzureWhat kind of access (Owner/contributor) we should have Any reserved Network segment/IPs to deploy NC2 on Azure Minimum and maximum nodes we can create within a cluster or a single NC2 on Azure private cloud. Pre-requisites to deploy Nutanix MOVE

Hi NEXT Community,We're excited to announce Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on OVHcloud!A Sovereign European Cloud OptionFor many of our customers, especially those in Europe, data sovereignty is a top priority. With this new offering, you can run your workloads in OVHcloud's European-owned and operated datacenters. This provides a clear path to ensuring your data and operations can remain under European jurisdiction, helping you address compliance requirements and avoid exposure to extraterritorial laws.Key Use Cases UnlockedBy extending your Nutanix environment to OVHcloud, you can treat the cloud as a seamless extension of your on-premises datacenters. This makes several key operations much simpler:Application Migration: Lift and shift applications and workloads to the cloud without the time, cost, and complexity of re-architecting or refactoring them. Disaster Recovery (DR): Easily build out a DR site in the cloud, using a predictable, cost-effective economic model that helps you avoi

 Hello everyone,I am new to Nutanix and I have an on-premises cluster with multiple VLANs configured in Prism Central. My VMs are currently placed inside these VLANs.I am planning to migrate everything to a new NC2 cluster on Azure, but I need to keep the same VM IP addresses.I have a few questions regarding this scenario: Is it possible to maintain the same VM IPs when migrating to NC2 on Azure? Are there any prerequisites on the on-premises Nutanix cluster to make this possible? What if the on-prem VLAN is also used by other physical servers outside of Nutanix? How would these physical servers communicate with VMs in NC2 on Azure? How can native Azure components or other third-party networks connected to my Azure environment reach the servers in this stretched network? For example, if I have some VMs on-prem, some on NC2, and some on other physical on-prem servers. Is this configuration intended as a temporary transition, or can it be permanent? Regarding traffic from a physi

Hi All,I have been trying to setup a NC2 using AWS. The setup went through fine as shown below screenshot from the prism page:Problem i see now is, the VM created (Ubuntu and Win10) are not been able to connect to internet for any updates or downloads (mirror urls). Also, we are not able to do ssh on those machines.Any help is appreciated.

Hi everyone, I have run into the issue described in the KB-18070, Case 2: CRITICAL memory_model_manager.py:83 X == 1 failed, after the power outage. Description and symptoms fits and I confirmed it in the logs. Problem is, that solution is to upgrade to next version and contact support for the recovery of the impacted cluster. Upgrade is not possible and its CE so support is also not an option. I was wondering if someone have similar issue or might have a clue hwo to move forward, as I would like to avoid nuking the whole cluster.  Any advice or help would be appreciated.

I noticed that Nutanix REST API v3 offer ability to interact with Nutanix Projects. The same features seem not to be available using the new API v4 so far. Will this come in the future? Is there a roadmap with all the features that will be coming in API v4?

how do we go about giving VM’s in our NC2 cluster running in azure pubic IP address? We have a number of VM’s that we need to build that will either require a public IP or be publicly accessible via LB’s running on the cluster (Not native AOS LB’s)  how do we assign a public IP from the Azure public IP address ranges to our VM’s running on NC2?

Hi,Use Case: I have a POC account on which I want to launch a NC2 cluster using my Azure account.Problem Statement: I am able to create an azure cloud account successfully but when I try to create a cluster, it does not let me use my azure account and depicts that my aws trial account is still active. Question: How can I activate Azure trial license in my POC account? Can I use my azure trial license if I have already used AWS trial?

I checked the log rotation interval for CVM and Prism Central in the manual, but I couldn't find any information.With the default settings, how often are logs rotated, and how many generations of data are retained?

We are excited to announce a new feature that allows you to configure the User VM (UVM) as the default gateway for NC2 on AWS subnets. This eliminates the need for an EC2 instance to perform the gateway function, allowing you to use the existing bare-metal that you're already paying for with NC2. It also provides better security by forcing traffic to the gateway device without needing to change the local gateway on guest devices. This means there is no way to circumvent the firewall/gateway device.The AWS Gateway implementation doesn't allow for just adding an NC2 VM as a gateway and carrying on. By default, the AWS gateway is .1 for each subnet, and routing changes require an AWS resource to configure routing. For example, using an EC2 instance, you would have to add AWS ENIs to your firewall/VPN to edit any traffic flows. You can see this in step 3 of this guide by Palo Alto.With this new feature, a Nutanix Cluster can assign an AWS ENI to the NIC of an NC2 VM. In my example, I am go

Nutanix introduces the Multicloud Snapshot Technology (MST) Disaster Recovery (DR) with Zero Compute Deployment as a cost-effective approach to disaster recovery. This solution leverages AWS S3 buckets or Nutanix Objects for storing snapshots, enabling organizations to replicate data from on-premises clusters to low-cost object storage. In the event of a disaster, an on-demand Nutanix cluster can be deployed in AWS or on-premises for recovery, ensuring minimal downtime and reduced operational costs. This article focuses on the MST DR with Zero Compute Deployment feature, its benefits, and how to configure it using a limited access policy for an S3 bucket named zerocompute. Key Features of MST DR with Zero Compute Deployment Cost-Effective Storage: Snapshots are replicated directly to AWS S3 or Nutanix Objects, eliminating the need for perpetual compute nodes. This reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging low-cost object storage. On-Demand Cluster Deployment: In the eve

Our company is just starting on on our Nutanix journey, we are currently deployed in NC2 and have setup Oracle 8.9 VMs on AHV.  We have setup the Entra ID integration to the Nutanix Console, but we were looking to setup user authentication to log in to the local Oracle Linux 8.9 servers, but have not been able to find a runbook on how to do this if it is possible.  Can you integrate Azure Entra ID with a AHV VM that is running on NC2? The bare metal is running in EastUS.  Any assistance or direction would be greatly appreciated. 

Hi everyone, I have an NX-3460-G6 that was turned off yesterday by accidentally unplugging the power cables. I tried to turn it back on, but the power supplies (PSU) have green LEDs flashing (the other LED is off). Now from the documentation I see that it could be one of two causes: 1) "When AC is present only: 12VSB on (PS off) of PS in sleep state (the LED should flash at i Hz). 2) Power supply firmware updating mode (the LED should flash at 2 Hz).