By Shannon Williams
Publication Date: 2026-04-09 07:30:00
Nutanix and NetApp have partnered to integrate Nutanix Cloud Platform with NetApp storage systems, targeting organisations modernising virtualised infrastructure.
The partnership combines Nutanix Cloud Platform, including the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, with NetApp data infrastructure built on its enterprise storage systems. It is designed to give customers another option for running workloads across on-premises systems, cloud environments and containers.
The companies are targeting organisations reassessing long-standing virtualisation estates and the operational burden of managing storage and compute separately. The combined offer is intended to reduce migration complexity, let data remain in place during some VM conversions and provide a single view for parts of infrastructure administration.
Migration Focus
A central feature of the partnership is support for moving virtual machines to Nutanix through an NFS-based integration with NetApp ONTAP. Customers will be able to use NetApp Shift and Nutanix Move to complete conversions in minutes rather than the longer migration cycles often associated with infrastructure changes.
The design also allows compute and storage to scale more independently by shifting data management tasks to ONTAP. That approach is intended to reduce some of the troubleshooting and administrative work common in large virtualised estates.
Another element is VM-level management. Customers will be able to manage performance, storage capacity…
