By @Zawya
Publication Date: 2026-10-15 09:15:00
Reshma Naik, Senior Director for Presales, Middle East and Africa at Nutanix. Image Courtesy: Nutanix
Combining Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), including the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, with NetApp ONTAP storage
Press Release
DUBAI, UAE: Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing and AI platform company, is expanding the infrastructure choices available to customers with a new solution that combines Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), including the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, with NetApp ONTAP storage.
Planned for availability this fall with an upcoming NCI release, the solution is designed to connect Nutanix compute powered by AHV with NetApp ONTAP storage using NFS. For organizations reassessing their virtualization strategies, this creates a route to adopt Nutanix while continuing to use existing NetApp AFF and FAS storage investments.
The integration builds on the strategic alliance announced by Nutanix and NetApp in April 2026 and introduces greater separation between the virtualization and storage layers. Rather than requiring an organization to replace both as part of the same modernization project, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for External Storage allows customers to evaluate a change to their virtualization platform while retaining supported NetApp storage infrastructure and established storage operations.
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