Nutanix: Invisible Wires: Agentic Cloud
Nutanix Knowledge Basepublic, sourced, dated
Public, verifiable Nutanix facts: v4 API for the whole estate, NC2 on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and where every fact comes from. Each page cites its sources with the date they were read.
Source hierarchy: product documentation on portal.nutanix.com first, then nutanix.dev, then the Nutanix Bible, then Nutanix University, launch blogs last. A page publishes only after every number on it has been read from one of those. Personal blog. Alex works at Nutanix; the opinions here are his own and nothing here is Nutanix confidential: every fact is public or his own field experience.
- One API for the estate: Prism Central v4Every cluster in a Nutanix estate, on-prem AHV and NC2 on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, registers to Prism Central and is driven through the same v4 API namespaces. One version, one URL shape, one set of SDKs. What sits outside that line, and why.Prism Central, v4 API
- NC2 on AWSThe supported EC2 bare-metal instance table, the tenancy models, the mixing rules for heterogeneous clusters, the node cap and the Prism Central subnet. Read from the hosted deployment guide dated September 9, 2026.Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), AWS
- NC2 on AzureThree bare-metal SKUs, twenty regions with availability per SKU and the footnotes that matter, the node cap, the reserved ranges and the VNet and subnet sizes. Read from the hosted deployment guide dated August 25, 2026.Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Azure
- NC2 on Google CloudSix bare-metal instance types in two storage architectures, twenty-three regions with availability per instance type, the subnet sizes, the node limits and the reserved ranges. Read from the hosted deployment guide dated August 25, 2026.Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Cloud
- Where the facts come fromThe source hierarchy every page here follows, the hosted guide PDFs with their cover dates, and the Nutanix University playlists on YouTube with direct links.All
Code
Everything we build that runs: public repos, Hugging Face Spaces, and the code published inside posts. Each one starts from the public NC2 and cloud documentation and nothing else.
- NC2 IAM permission checkPaste a role definition and see which NC2 onboarding permissions it's missing against the public guides. Runs in your browser; nothing you paste leaves the page. The companion to nc2-iam-preflight.Hugging Face Space · JavaScript, in the browser · AWS · Azure · Google Cloud · MIT
- nc2-iam-preflightBefore NC2 onboarding, ask the cloud which permissions you're missing, and whether IAM or an organization policy is what's stopping you. Read-only, runs in the cloud's own shell.GitHub · Python · AWS · Azure · Google Cloud · MIT
- IAM Roles Anywhere for AHV guestsThe missing credential: give an AHV guest on NC2 short-lived AWS credentials so it can call AWS AI services without stored keys.code in the post · CLI · config · AWS
- utility-vm-egress-validatorDeploy a throwaway utility VM into a cloud landing zone, test real network egress from where NC2 will sit, then tear it down.GitHub · Shell · AWS · Azure · Google Cloud · MIT
- Active/active/standby across three cloudsNC2 across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud on the v4 API: a UVM in a plain VPC or VNet talking to the native cloud service next to it.code in the post · v4 API · CLI · AWS · Azure · Google Cloud
- NC2 on Google Cloud, as codePulumi for the landing zone, the NC2 v2 API for the rest, and the v4 API only from there on.code in the post · Pulumi · REST · Google Cloud
- NC2 on Azure, as codeBicep for the landing zone and the NC2 v2 API for the organization, the cloud account and the cluster. The console never gets clicked.code in the post · Bicep · REST · Azure
- nc2-aws-as-codeNC2 on AWS from the NC2 console to the first VM: Flow Virtual Networking and the v4 APIs, as OpenTofu.GitHub · OpenTofu / HCL · AWS · MIT