Puts Nutanix clusters in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or a similar public cloud. They can receive workloads from Move, or serve as an availability zone for recovery after a disaster.
Also called Nutanix Cloud Clusters.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains NC2 in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- AWS
Short for Amazon Web Services, Amazon's public cloud. Linking AWS accounts to Microsoft Defender for Cloud brings them under its recommendations and protections.
- Public cloud
Services that a provider such as Microsoft owns, operates and sells to any customer. Nothing needs buying upfront, and charges follow actual consumption.
- Availability zone
One or more datacentres in an Azure region that are physically apart from the rest and have their own power, cooling and network. If one zone fails, the others keep running.
Related terms
- Amazon EC2
Virtual machines as a service on AWS. With Nutanix Move, these instances can go to NC2 on AWS, to AHV or to ESXi on Nutanix.
- Availability zone
A site that Nutanix Disaster Recovery treats as physically isolated, with a single Prism Central instance standing for it. Recovery points replicate from the primary site to its paired recovery sites, which may be NC2, Nutanix Cloud AZ or on-premises.
- AWS
Amazon's public cloud platform, which Nutanix Move can migrate from and NC2 can run on.
- VMware Cloud on AWS
Nutanix Move can take workloads from this VMware service and land them on NC2 on AWS or on AHV.