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Publication Date: 2026-04-07 07:00:00
At the Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Chicago, Nutanix and NetApp announced a strategic partnership to integrate NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), including support for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The integration is expected later this year and targets enterprises looking to align virtualization and data management strategies across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and containerized environments.
The joint approach brings NetApp ONTAP into the Nutanix ecosystem as a primary data layer, combining ONTAP’s mature data services with NCP’s unified operational model. This positions ONTAP as the storage backbone while Nutanix continues to deliver compute, virtualization, and cloud orchestration through AHV and its broader platform stack.
NetApp and Nutanix are streamlining the modernization of virtualized environments by providing secure and efficient solutions, according to Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. Singh emphasized the importance of Intelligent Data Infrastructure as the foundation for transforming virtualization and data operations, highlighting that their collaboration simplifies the operation of virtualized workloads at the enterprise level.
NFS-Based Connectivity
The integration centers on NFS-based connectivity between Nutanix and ONTAP systems. This allows virtual machines to run on Nutanix while leveraging external NetApp storage, enabling a disaggregated…