Bundles several Prism Central abilities: spotting unusual performance, discovering applications, planning capacity and automating tasks through playbooks.
Also called NCM Intelligent Operations, formerly Prism Pro or Prism Ultimate, Intelligent Operations (Prism Pro).
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Intelligent Operations in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- AMPRS
An acronym for availability, manageability, performance, recoverability and security: the five design qualities used to sort non-functional requirements and to weigh up trade-offs between design decisions.
- Capacity
A reserved block of compute for a tenant whose size is fixed by its SKU; Fabric F SKUs express it in capacity units (CUs). Workspaces assigned to it unlock features like Copilot, and from F64 upwards people with free licences can view Power BI content.
Related terms
- KPI
The metric and target value that Autopilot works towards by running an Intelligent Operations playbook repeatedly.
- NCM
Manages apps and infrastructure over multiple clouds, with Self-Service, Intelligent Operations and other parts included. Nutanix Cloud Platform is this product plus NCI.
- Report management
Lets all built-in roles apart from Prism Viewer produce and share historical reports on resources monitored by vCenter and Nutanix. It sits in Prism Central as part of Intelligent Operations.
- X-Play
Runs playbooks, in which a trigger sets off one or more actions, as the automation engine of Intelligent Operations.