NC2 What’s Nu?

Introduction

In this new blog series, we’re going to be tracking the latest developments of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, with particular reference to the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution, either in general or on a particular public cloud provider. The intention is to keep you up to date with some technical points, and provide linkage to more detail where required.

In this post, you’ll learn how new NC2 capabilities can save your organisation money, accelerate your cloud journey and help modernize your application stack.

Specifically, the new features include NKP support, Network Load Balancer support, new region availability, snapshot copies to S3 and more!

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) Support on NC2

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) can easily manage Kubernetes® deployments running in public clouds, and as of version 2.13, NKP is qualified to run on both the NC2 in AWS and NC2 in Azure solutions. With NKP, organizations can manage their Kubernetes orchestrated container deployments and accelerate application modernization wherever the apps live. Together, NKP on NC2 forms the platform of the future to support a variety of use cases for a truly complete hybrid cloud experience across edge, data center, service provider and public cloud locations.

Nutanix Network Load Balancer Support

This feature allows customers to load balance network traffic across multiple applications within a Flow Virtual Networking VPC and is fully supported in NC2 across both Azure and AWS. Both TCP and UDP traffic can be load balanced with a variety of configurations and health check options for either performance or redundancy. Floating IPs can be assigned to the Load Balancer Virtual IP (VIP) for seamless connectivity over NAT networks. In an NC2 on public cloud scenario, a Nutanix Network Load Balancer offers an alternative to native public cloud offerings that can run within your NC2 cluster, simplifying management and potentially reducing costs.

AWS: “Zero Compute” Multicloud Snapshot Technology (MST)

For some time, Nutanix has been able to natively store snapshots into AWS S3 via a “pilot light” NC2 cluster running in AWS. But now, with MST, a Nutanix cluster in the data center can also send its snapshots directly to AWS S3, without the need for any cloud bare metal infrastructure.  This opens up a range of enhanced data protection possibilities for organizations, including low cost data protection, near zero infrastructure disaster recovery to public cloud and keeping third “bunker” or “clean” site copies of workloads.

AWS: Flexible EBS attach

NC2 in AWS has been able to utilise Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for a while now, but now solutions can utilise as few as 1 EBS volume per node.  This improved flexibility means that for some organisations, the cost of entry for an NC2 solution may now be reduced, providing more storage without the need for more nodes.  For more information see the NC2 product documentation.

AWS: Marketplace procurement now even easier

Recent collaboration with AWS has now made deploying the NC2 solution, both the bare metal nodes and the Nutanix licenses, even easier.  Customers like Al Dahra are already enjoying the simplicity and accelerating their NC2 projects by drawing down on their cloud spend commitments.

Microsoft Azure: New regions

As demand grows for NC2, new Azure regions are being bought online.  The first quarter of calendar year 2025 has already seen the activation of UAE North, Qatar Central, India Central & South with AN36P instances to support customer workloads.  

A full list of NC2 supported Azure regions can be found here.

Microsoft Azure: NDB Support

NDB on NC2 on Azure (introduced in NDB 2.6.1): As of the NDB 2.6.1 maintenance release, NDB fully supports all supported database engines on NC2 on Azure using Flow VPCs.  This means that organizations can now standardise their database operations across private and multiple public clouds.

As an example, HighRadius’ Nutanix technology stack helps to serve global customers in managing their order-to-cash workflows, forecasting cash, financial reporting, process invoices and providing B2B payment gateways and includes using NDB on NC2.

AWS & Azure NC2 Solutions Documentation

The NC2 documentation on the Nutanix Insights & Support portal is always being updated to reflect the latest capabilities of the solution.  Recent notable updates include those to the NC2 Solutions Document and the Networking Best Practices guides for both AWS and Azure.

• Solution Document - Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Amazon Web Services
• Solution Document - Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure
• Best Practices - Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Amazon Web Services Networking Best Practices
• Best Practices - Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure Networking Best Practices

The full set of Nutanix Solution Documentation, including hybrid cloud reference architectures, validated designs and best practice guides can be found here.

Cloud Partner Migration Funding

Nutanix has worked with its service and channel partners to streamline access to the public cloud providers’ migration funding programs. The cloud providers offering these funding programs may cover some of the costs of specialized assessment, design or migration work performed by service delivery partners on behalf of customers migrating to NC2 on AWS or Azure. These programs can be highly beneficial to customers, but access to them can be complex.  Nutanix has worked with its specialist teams on how customers and partners can best leverage these programs with NC2 and accelerate their cloud migration projects. Please contact your Nutanix or partner sales representative for more information.

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