Nutanix is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform that unifies compute, storage, and virtualization on commodity servers, managed through its Prism control plane. Its bundled AHV hypervisor (KVM-based) is included in the platform license, positioning Nutanix as a common migration path off vSphere. The company was founded in 2009, is publicly traded (NASDAQ: NTNX), and targets enterprise private and hybrid clouds with one-click upgrades and integrated DR. Licensing is subscription-based and quote-priced through partners.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2009
- Pricing tier
- High
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Private cloud / virtualization
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Hypervisor
- AHV (KVM based)
- Hyperconverged
- Yes
- Management UI
- Yes
- Live migration
- Yes
- HA clustering
- Yes
- Free tier
- No