Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
Nutanix
Paid
Near-zero - continuous sync, minutes to cut over
Agentless
Enterprise estates
Workload V2C C2V
What it is good at
Same AHV stack on-prem and in cloud, so lift-and-shift needs no guest conversion and you can move back later.
Where it falls down
Bare-metal instance minimums make small footprints expensive.
Capabilities
- Live migration (no guest downtime)
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Wave / batch orchestration
- Agentless operation
- Rollback / failback after cutover
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- Nutanix Cloud Platform subscription plus bare-metal cloud instance cost
- Licence model
- Nutanix software subscription (per core / per node) layered on Azure or AWS bare-metal instances which you pay for separately.
- How to license it
- Buy NC2 capacity-based licences from Nutanix or via the Azure/AWS marketplace (which lets you draw down a committed cloud spend agreement).
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.nutanix.com/products/nutanix-cloud-clusters
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
Supported targets
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2 on Azure / AWS)
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)