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Acropolis Acropolis

The industry’s most popular hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution.

Software for your Private Cloud

The complexity, costs and tedious processes that come with legacy infrastructure distract IT from delivering the apps and services your business needs.

Nutanix Acropolis software converges compute and storage to provide cloud-like infrastructure that can run any application at any scale. Unlike other HCI products, Acropolis provides the freedom to choose the right technology for the business, including hardware platform, virtualization technology and public cloud integration. With in-built data protection, security, and self-healing capabilities, IT teams get a full stack solution they control, which can be deployed in minutes - without requiring teams of specialists.

Leader Again in the November 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

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Simplify your Datacenter

Eliminate the time and effort needed to design, procure and deploy infrastructure. Get started in minutes, with hyperconverged infrastructure that includes compute, storage and networking, and scales out as needs grow. IDC found that customers get 60% lower TCO with a 7-month payback period.

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Eliminate Rigid Storage Area Networks

Replace expensive standalone and often rigid SAN and NAS solutions with a distributed pool built on direct-attached storage. Scale-out as your data grows, and increase storage performance by eliminating storage networking and specialized HBAs.

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Bring your own Virtualization Software

Leverage built-in virtualization provided by Nutanix AHV, or use popular virtualization solutions from VMware, Microsoft or Citrix on Acropolis. Get rid of specialized management tools and centrally administer virtual machines alongside infrastructure.

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Centralized Management with Advanced Analytics

Discard multiple management consoles. Get integrated control and visibility across the virtualized infrastructure stack. Leverage advanced machine learning technology to gain insights and optimize virtualization and infrastructure planning and management.

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Always Secure

Increase your security posture and reduce threats with a self-healing security configuration baseline that exceeds the requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense. The software comes with powerful security features, including role based access control (RBAC), two-factor authentication, and FIPS compliant data at rest encryption.

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Never Suffer from Data Loss

Acropolis automatically replicates data across the cluster to ensure that failed disks never compromise the integrity of your data. Seamlessly backup data, or snapshot virtual disks or machines locally or replicate them to a remote site or a cloud service.

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Gracefully Recover When Disaster Strikes

Shield your business users and customers from failures. Guarantee near-100% uptime for applications and zero data loss by replicating across sites or the cloud.

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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

Learn the fundamentals of hyperconverged infrastructure and expert tips to build a fast, efficient and highly scalable enterprise datacenter.

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Play Video “Nutanix brought a better platform. Easier to manage, better intergrated, and able to scale much higher than any other platform out there today” CarePoint Health System Lev Goronshteyn, Chief Technology Officer CarePoint Health System
Play Video "The idea was to just run VDI on Nutanix, but because we saw such perfect performance we started migrating other workloads. We're now running our SQL environment, Sharepoint, Exchange, our entire production on Nutanix." Director, Infrastructure & Operations at Hyundai Australia Kawa Farid Director, Infrastructure & Operations at Hyundai Australia
Play Video "We plan to be a Nutanix-only shop going forward. I see no reason to use anything else." EVP and CIO at Valpak Chris Cate EVP and CIO at Valpak

Software Editions

Acropolis is available in several editions to fit your datacenter needs.

 STARTERPROULTIMATE
STARTERCore set of software functionalityPRORich data services, resilience and management featuresULTIMATEThe full suite of Nutanix software capabilities to tackle complex infrastructure challenges
Ideal ForSTARTERSmall-scale deployments with a limited set of workloadsPRORunning multiple applications or large-scale single workload deploymentsULTIMATEMulti-site deployments and advanced security requirements
Enterprise Storage
Cluster SizeSTARTER12PROUnlimitedULTIMATEUnlimited
Heterogeneous ClustersSTARTERPROULTIMATE
VM-centric Snapshots & ClonesSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Data TieringSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Inline CompressionSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Inline Performance DeduplicationSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Online Cluster Grow/ShrinkSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Acropolis Container ServicesSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Nutanix Volumes™PROULTIMATE
MapReduce CompressionPROULTIMATE
MapReduce DeduplicationPROULTIMATE
Erasure Coding (EC-X)PROULTIMATE
VM Flash ModeULTIMATE
Infrastructure Resilience
Data Path RedundancySTARTERPROULTIMATE
Tunable Redundancy FactorSTARTER2PRO2 or 3ULTIMATE2 or 3
Availability Domains - Block/Rack AwarenessPROULTIMATE
Data Protection
Disaster Recovery with Async Replication (1hr or larger RPO)STARTERPROULTIMATE
Application Consistent SnapshotsSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Local SnapshotsSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Self Service RestorePROULTIMATE
Cloud ConnectPROULTIMATE
Multiple Site DR (many to many) 1ULTIMATE
Metro Availability 1ULTIMATE
Disaster Recovery with NearSync or Sync Replication (1min-1hr RPO or 0 RPO) 1ULTIMATE
Leap-Advanced Orchestration (Multiple Boot Phases, re-IP, Recovery Plan Test)1ULTIMATE
Security
Client AuthenticationSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Cluster LockdownPROULTIMATE
Data-at-Rest Encryption (SED and Software Based w/ native key management)2PROAd-on license available
ULTIMATE
Management & Analytics
Prism StarterSTARTERPROULTIMATE
PulseSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Cluster HealthSTARTERPROULTIMATE
One-click Upgrades (Nutanix OS & Hypervisor)STARTERPROULTIMATE
Rest APIsSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Supported Hypervisors
Nutanix AHVSTARTERPROULTIMATE
VMware ESXiSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Microsoft Hyper-VSTARTERPROULTIMATE
XenServer for Citrix workloads
STARTERPROULTIMATE
Built-In Virtualization (Nutanix AHV)
VM ManagementSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Intelligent VM PlacementSTARTERPROULTIMATE
VM Automated Resource SchedulingSTARTERPROULTIMATE
VM Affinity RulesSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Virtual Network ConfigurationSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Host ProfilesSTARTERPROULTIMATE
VM High AvailabilitySTARTERPROULTIMATE
Open Stack DriversSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Hypervisor ConversionSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Cross Hypervisor DRSTARTERPROULTIMATE
Self Service PortalSTARTERPROULTIMATE

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