Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a powerful multicloud management platform that simplifies the building, operation, and governance of applications and IT infrastructure across private and public clouds. It offers a unified solution for Intelligent Operations, Self-Service and Orchestration, Cost Governance, and Security Central, making it an essential tool for modern organizations.
Key Features of NCM:
Intelligent Operations: NCM enables users to optimize virtualization and infrastructure management, forecast capacity needs, proactively detect performance anomalies, and automate operational tasks easily and confidently.
- Intelligent Ops Capabilities:
- Full Stack Visibility For Operations
- Visibility for AOS and non-AOS infra, applications, and databases
- Real-time agentless discovery of applications via IPFIX data
- Insights To Operate And Scale
- ML-based analysis of capacity usage and trends, inefficiency detection
- Predictive monitoring to generate actionable signals and early warnings.
- Low-Code Automation to Drive Actions
- Playbooks with out-of-box actions to automate remediation.
- Integrates with ServiceNow, Jira, and other IT tools
- Recently, new features have been added:
- New unified NCM Ul in Prism Central
- Ignore time period for capacity planning
- Expanded X-Play action list
- Predefined system reports and filters
- Center scale Improvements
- X-play integration with Runbooks
- Configurable look-back period
Self-Service and Orchestration: NCM allows organizations to streamline how they provision, scale, and manage new or existing applications across multiple environments while managing consumption and governance.
- Self-Service Capabilities:
- Easy out-of-box laas marketplace
- Marketplace with pre-packaged blueprints for 1-click Self Service
- Define once and deploy across clouds, on VMs and/or K8s
- Policy-based Cloud Governance
- End-to-end audits and control Infra consumption with Quotas
- Manage automated actions through schedulers and approvals
- Advanced App Automation
- Orchestrate and automate programmatically using Infrastructure-as-code
- Seamlessly integrate into Developers’ CI/CD pipelines
- Recently, new features have been added:
- Unified NCM Ul in Prism Central
- NDB Integration with Runbooks
- Tenant Onboarding Runbooks
- X-Play to Runbooks integration
- Increased Scale for Self-service
Cost Governance: NCM provides visibility, optimization, and control over multicloud deployments for improved cloud consumption, offering cost governance, resource optimization, and clear cloud metering and chargeback visibility.
- Cost Governance Capabilities
- 1-click Visibility to Multi-Cloud Cost Consumption
- Unique out-of-box TCO model that delivers Private Cloud cost metering
- Comprehensive Multi-Cloud cost analysis tools including Forecasting
- Automated Chargeback & Budgeting
- Automatically map resource consumption to cost centers
- Track Budgets for governance and use Chargeback of Cloud spend to BUs
- Cost Optimization & Savings
- ML based Anomaly detection of spend spikes & automation policies
- Right-sizing recommendations, and smarter purchases reduce spend
- Recently, new features have been added:
- Cost Governance for Nutanix Cloud Clusters
- Azure MCA support
- Global TCO and granular cost configuration for VMs
- Variance insights in spend analysis
- Granular rate card configuration for VMs
- Nutanix Prism Central based Account Onboarding
- Improved bulk uploads of direct cost
Security Central: NCM offers a single dashboard to plan for, manage, and govern workload security on any cloud type without the need for deep cybersecurity training or additional personnel.
- Security Central Capabilities
- 1-Click Security Risk Monitoring and Planning
- System and Custom Audits for visibility to Security Risk Posture
- Unique ML driven user behavior and network threat anomaly detection
- Simplify & Accelerate Multicloud SecOps
- Real time inventory of resources and event, with investigations through querying (CQL)
- Multiple integration points with Enterprise SecOps tools and processes
- Security Governance via Regulatory Compliance
- Validate compliance with regulatory policies
- HIPAA, PCI, CIS, NIST, GDPR and more
- Recently, new features have been added:
- NCZ AWS Coverage
- GDPR, SOC2 and ISO 27001 Compliance audits
- Flow Network Security – Nextgen Support
- Investigate (Custom Query) on Inventory
- NC2 Azure Support
- Single pane of glass for Security Governance
- Regulatory compliance support
- Audit & track resource usage and identify anomalies
By leveraging Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), IT teams can streamline multi-cloud operations, automate IT workflows, optimize cloud spending, and enhance security governance. Whether managing infrastructure, controlling costs, or enforcing security policies, NCM provides the tools for an efficient, scalable, and secure cloud environment.
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