Nutanix in India: AHV, Hybrid Cloud and Moving Off VMware
Nutanix runs virtual machines, storage and Kubernetes on standard servers with its own AHV hypervisor. Many Indian VMware customers are reviewing it after Broadcom's licensing changes. Invitty scopes Nutanix clusters and plans migrations with Nutanix Move.
Reviewed 13 November 2026 · Rathish Kumar, Invitty
Nutanix Cloud Platform combines virtualisation, storage and management on standard x86 servers, with AHV as its built-in hypervisor and Prism for management. At its .NEXT 2026 conference Nutanix announced zero-copy migration from vSphere Virtual Volumes to AHV, while Nutanix Move with data replication remains the main path for VMFS and NFS datastores. For most VMware shops in India, the question is a careful migration plan, not the technology.
Nutanix products at a glance
| Product | What it does | Good fit for |
|---|---|---|
| Nutanix Cloud Platform (AOS) | Hyperconverged software that pools server disks into resilient storage | Replacing a separate SAN plus virtualisation stack |
| AHV | Nutanix's own hypervisor, included with the platform | VMware customers looking to cut hypervisor licensing |
| Prism and Nutanix Cloud Manager | Management, monitoring and automation across clusters | IT teams running several clusters or sites |
| NC2 (Nutanix Cloud Clusters) | Runs the same Nutanix stack on public cloud bare metal | Disaster recovery or burst capacity in the cloud |
| Nutanix Kubernetes Platform | Kubernetes management, now extending to bare-metal deployments | Teams running containers alongside VMs |
| Nutanix Move | Migration tool for moving VMs from VMware and other sources to AHV | Every VMware-to-Nutanix migration |
Migrating from VMware: what actually moves and what does not
Virtual machines move well. Nutanix Move converts VMs and maps networks, and validates them after migration. What does not move automatically is the surrounding design: Nutanix has acknowledged that automatic policy migration from VMware NSX is not supported, so micro-segmentation rules need to be rebuilt. Backups, monitoring agents and any scripts that call vCenter also need attention. List these before you sign, because they decide how long the project really takes.
Hardware choices
Nutanix software runs on approved servers from several makers, including Dell, HPE and Lenovo, as well as Nutanix-branded nodes. If you are already standardised on one server brand, keep it. Size nodes for the workload with spare capacity for one node to fail, and confirm the exact models are on Nutanix's compatibility list. Our server page covers Dell, HPE and Lenovo options.
What to prepare before a Nutanix proposal
- VM inventory: count, vCPU, RAM, disk and peak usage over a busy month.
- VMware licence renewal date and current edition.
- Datastore types in use: vVols, VMFS or NFS, since this changes the migration path.
- NSX, backup and monitoring tools tied to vCenter.
- Disaster recovery requirements and whether a second site or cloud is involved.
Where Invitty supplies and supports Nutanix
Invitty is based in Ambattur, Chennai, and can attend assessments, installation and migration weekends across Tamil Nadu. For customers in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kerala, assessment and migration work are mostly remote, with on-site visits for cluster installation. See our Karnataka page.
Nutanix: questions buyers ask
Can we move from VMware to Nutanix without rebuilding our VMs?
Do we have to buy Nutanix hardware?
Who supplies Nutanix in Chennai?
What is Nutanix NC2?
Sources
Product facts on this page come from these pages, checked on 13 November 2026. Vendors change products and licensing, so we confirm current details in every quotation.
- Nutanix one platform overview
- Nutanix AHV
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
- Nutanix Kubernetes Platform
- Nutanix blog: VM migrations to AHV with Nutanix Move
- NAND Research: Nutanix .NEXT 2026 analysis
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