From On-Premises to Public Cloud: How Nutanix Simplifies Hybrid Cloud
Extend the Nutanix operating model beyond the datacenter. Discover how Nutanix Cloud Clusters helps organisations run and move workloads across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure.
The way businesses run IT is changing.
For many organisations, the question is no longer whether infrastructure should run on-premises or in the public cloud. Different workloads have different requirements, and increasingly the answer is a combination of both.
That flexibility, however, can introduce a new problem: complexity.
Separate infrastructure platforms, management tools, operational processes and skill sets can turn a hybrid-cloud strategy into two different environments that happen to be connected.
Nutanix takes a different approach.
With Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), organisations can extend the Nutanix operating model beyond their own datacenter and into supported public cloud environments, creating a more consistent way to run and manage workloads across locations.
One Operating Model Across Environments
One of the biggest advantages of a hybrid-cloud architecture is the ability to choose where workloads run.
The challenge is doing so without requiring IT teams to operate completely different infrastructure stacks.
NC2 extends Nutanix infrastructure into public cloud environments while maintaining the familiar Nutanix management experience.
Instead of introducing an entirely separate infrastructure platform, organisations can continue using Nutanix technologies and operational processes across their environments.
This creates a more consistent experience for infrastructure teams and reduces the operational friction that can come with adopting public cloud.
Move Workloads Without Rebuilding Them
Moving an existing application to the cloud often involves more than simply moving a virtual machine.
Different infrastructure architectures can require applications to be refactored, networking to be redesigned or new operational tooling to be introduced.
NC2 is designed to make workload mobility between Nutanix environments more straightforward.
For organisations already running Nutanix on-premises, this can provide a path into public cloud without immediately redesigning applications around an entirely different infrastructure stack.
That can be particularly valuable for organisations looking at cloud migration, datacenter consolidation or temporary cloud capacity.
Use the Cloud When You Need It
Hybrid cloud doesn’t necessarily mean moving everything permanently into public cloud.
Sometimes the real value is being able to use additional infrastructure when it makes sense.
An organisation may need extra capacity for a temporary project, seasonal demand or an infrastructure migration. Another may want public cloud capacity as part of its disaster recovery strategy.
NC2 allows public cloud resources to become another location in the broader Nutanix environment.
Potential use cases include:
- Datacenter migration
- Temporary or burst capacity
- Disaster recovery
- Geographic expansion
- Cloud migration
- Datacenter consolidation
- Extending existing Nutanix environments
The objective isn’t to force every workload into one location. It’s to give organisations more flexibility over where those workloads run.
License Portability
Infrastructure location isn’t the only consideration in a hybrid-cloud strategy.
Licensing can also become a significant source of complexity.
Nutanix license portability allows eligible software licenses to move with the infrastructure strategy rather than tying them permanently to a single deployment location.
For organisations moving workloads between on-premises infrastructure and supported cloud environments, this can provide greater flexibility in how existing Nutanix investments are used.
It also makes it easier to think about infrastructure as a platform that can span locations rather than as isolated environments with completely separate technology investments.
A Consistent Operational Experience
Hybrid cloud becomes considerably more useful when the underlying environments don’t require completely different operational models.
With Nutanix, infrastructure teams can retain a familiar management experience while extending workloads beyond their own datacenter.
That consistency can help simplify:
- Infrastructure management
- Workload mobility
- Lifecycle operations
- Monitoring
- Security and governance
- Infrastructure expansion
The result is a hybrid-cloud architecture designed around workload choice rather than infrastructure boundaries.
Hybrid Cloud Is About Choice
The goal of hybrid cloud shouldn’t simply be to use both a datacenter and a public cloud.
It should give organisations the ability to choose the right environment for each workload without creating unnecessary operational complexity.
For organisations already using Nutanix, NC2 provides a way to extend that existing operating model into public cloud infrastructure while retaining familiar technologies, processes and skills.
That can make public cloud another part of the infrastructure strategy rather than an entirely separate platform.
Considering Hybrid Cloud with Nutanix?
Whether you’re looking at datacenter migration, disaster recovery, temporary cloud capacity or simply want more flexibility around where your workloads run, the architecture should start with your actual requirements.
Nubera can help assess your existing environment and determine where Nutanix and NC2 fit within your hybrid-cloud strategy.
