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Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Cloud · verified against the sources below on September 23, 2026

Instances

Six instance types, in two families that differ in where AOS keeps its data.

Local SSD (Table 7 in the guide). AOS runs on the node's own NVMe.

Instance	Processor	Cores / vCPUs	Memory	Local storage	Network
`z3-highmem-192-highlssd-metal`	Intel Sapphire Rapids 8481C, 2.2 GHz, 3.0 GHz turbo	96 / 192	1,536 GB DDR5	12 x 6 TB NVMe, 72,000 GB	up to 200 Gbps, Tier 1
`c4-standard-288-lssd-metal`	Intel Granite Rapids 6985P-C, 3.0 GHz, 3.9 GHz turbo	144 / 288	1,080 GB DDR5	6 x 3 TB, 18,000 GB	up to 200 Gbps, Tier 1
`c4-highmem-288-lssd-metal`	Intel Granite Rapids 6985P-C, 3.0 GHz, 3.9 GHz turbo	144 / 288	2,232 GB DDR5	6 x 3 TB, 18,000 GB	up to 200 Gbps, Tier 1

Hyperdisk Balanced (Table 8). No local storage. Capacity is remote and decoupled from the node. Added to the guide on July 27, 2026.

Instance	Processor	Cores / vCPUs	Memory	Remote storage per host	IOPS / throughput per host
`c3-standard-192-metal`	Intel 4th Gen Xeon (Sapphire Rapids), 2.8 GHz	96 / 192	768 GB	15 to 120 TB	30,000 / 1,400 MB/s
`c3-highcpu-192-metal`	same	96 / 192	512 GB	15 to 120 TB	30,000 / 1,400 MB/s
`c3-highmem-192-metal`	same	96 / 192	1,536 GB	15 to 120 TB	30,000 / 1,400 MB/s

Each C3 node carries four data disks and two boot disks (one AHV, one CVM). Three constraints come with Hyperdisk: never change a volume's capacity or performance from the Google Cloud console; disks cannot be added to or removed from an existing node, so more capacity means another node; and a single failed volume is handled by replacing the whole node.

The vCPU count is the cloud provider's billing and quota figure, not a scheduling limit.

Regions

Twenty-three regions (Table 9), and availability is per instance type. Three regions carry all six types: asia-southeast1, europe-west4 and us-central1. Pick the region for the instance, not the other way round.

Region	z3-highmem	c4-standard	c4-highmem	c3-standard	c3-highcpu	c3-highmem
asia-east1	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
asia-northeast1	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
asia-south1	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
asia-southeast1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
australia-southeast2	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
europe-north2	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
europe-southwest1	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
europe-west1	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
europe-west2	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
europe-west3	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
europe-west4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
europe-west8	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
me-central1	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
me-central2	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
northamerica-northeast2	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
southamerica-east1	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
us-central1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
us-east1	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
us-east4	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
us-east5	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
us-south1	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
us-west1	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
us-west2	Yes	No	No	No	No	No

The guide's change log shows how fast this table moves: asia-northeast1 was added July 2, 2026, the C3 family July 27, 2026, and asia-south1 August 14, 2026. Re-read the table rather than trusting this copy.

Cluster limits

Three nodes minimum, twenty-eight maximum. Creating a cluster outside that range is listed as unsupported.
Node type and redundancy factor are fixed at creation.
Capacity changes go through the NC2 console, never the Google Cloud console.

Networking

Subnet sizes, from the planning chapter:

Subnet	Minimum
Cluster (management) subnet	/24, with a /28 for Prism Central carved out of it
Flow Virtual Networking NAT subnet	/27
Flow Virtual Networking no-NAT subnet	/27

Ranges the cluster reserves for itself, which the VPC must not use: 192.168.5.0/24, 10.100.0.0/16, 10.200.32.0/24, 10.200.0.0/22 and 100.64.1.0/24.

Automation

Cluster lifecycle is the NC2 console API, POST /clusters/gcp on https://cloud.nutanix.com/api/v2, which returns a task to poll. Everything after Prism Central answers is the v4 API; see One API for the estate. The full walk with Pulumi for the landing zone is in the post NC2 on Google Cloud, as code.

Sources

Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud Deployment and User Guide, hosted PDF dated August 25, 2026 on its cover. Tables 7, 8 and 9, the planning chapter's subnet and reserved-range lists, and the limitations list. Read 2026-09-23. The same guide is browsable on portal.nutanix.com under Cloud Clusters (NC2).
NC2 API reference for the cluster create call. Read 2026-09-23.

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