Nutanix first unveiled its Agentic AI solution at Nvidia’s GTC event in March, which integrates with Nvidia AI Enterprise at the Agent Builder layer. This offering enables customers to build, run, and secure agentic AI applications using a comprehensive suite of infrastructure orchestration and security software. The company claims this solution reduces operational complexity, optimizes performance and security, and delivers lower, more predictable token costs.
Nutanix is making this Agentic AI offering available to neoclouds, allowing them to provide agentic AI services to their own customers. Thomas Cornely, Executive Vice President (EVP) for Product Management at Nutanix, stated: “The Nutanix Agentic AI solution, with its secure multi-tenant architecture and AI management portal, is engineered to help neocloud providers quickly deliver advanced, high-value AI services to enterprises and public sector organizations seeking powerful AI capabilities from trusted regional providers.”
According to Nutanix, neoclouds have historically served a small number of enterprise clients and provided GPUs for AI training. However, the next phase of AI adoption will focus on scaling inference capabilities and running agentic AI applications in production for a broader base of enterprise customers. To meet this demand, neoclouds require an MSP-style framework for delivering AI inference as a service—and Nutanix aims to fill this gap by adding a multi-tenant, multi-service portal alongside its Agentic AI software. This combination will enable neocloud providers to offer high-value AI services on their GPU infrastructure while also supporting sovereign AI deployments.
Updates to Nutanix Agentic AI will include the next generation of its multi-tenancy framework, delivered through Nutanix Service Provider Central. This framework is designed to help neocloud providers securely operate shared AI infrastructure at scale.
“This framework introduces robust tenant isolation and granular resource management, allowing providers to host multiple enterprises on the same physical GPU infrastructure while maintaining consistent performance, security, and data isolation,” Nutanix explained. “Neocloud builders will be able to dynamically allocate GPU and compute resources across tenants, enforce tenant-specific security and networking policies, and enable independent AI environments for each customer—complete with a comprehensive catalog of GPU-aaS, K8S-aaS, VM-aaS, Notebooks-aaS, VectorDB-aaS, and Models-aaS.”
Nutanix is also enhancing its Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) to help service providers operate and monetize AI infrastructure as a service. NCM includes AI infrastructure monitoring and adds usage-based metering, enabling providers to track and bill customers based on GPU usage, API calls, or model consumption.
To ensure strong performance for its Agentic AI offering, Nutanix is upgrading its Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)—which orchestrates container workloads—by adding bare-metal server support. NKP Metal allows customers to run containers directly on physical infrastructure, “delivering the performance required for edge environments and AI training workloads that depend on dense GPU infrastructure.”
Customers “can choose to utilize Nutanix storage via the CSI (Container Storage Interface) or leverage Cloud Native AOS as a purpose-built storage option for true bare-metal Kubernetes deployments. They can also use Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes-native data services, extending the Nutanix experience end-to-end while keeping storage close to Kubernetes workloads.”
Dan Ciruli, Vice President (VP) and General Manager (GM) of Cloud Native at Nutanix, commented: “Running Kubernetes on bare metal has traditionally meant giving up the operational simplicity of virtualized environments. With NKP Metal, we’re extending the Nutanix operating model to bare-metal Kubernetes, combining automated lifecycle management with integrated Cloud Native AOS data services to deliver the simplicity, consistency, and enterprise storage capabilities customers need on their physical infrastructure.”
To address memory shortages that limit on-premises server deployments, Nutanix is expanding its Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to support more deployment options across hyperscalers. This includes adding support for secure government cloud regions, such as AWS GovCloud and AWS European Sovereign Cloud, as well as Hyperdisk and C3 bare-metal instance support for NC2 on Google Cloud. Customers benefit from the flexibility to scale storage independently of compute and use bare-metal instance types without local storage.
Nutanix notes that for organizations facing hardware availability challenges, these options provide the flexibility to continue deploying critical workloads without lengthy delays. They can run workloads in the cloud to meet regulatory, latency, or procurement requirements without refactoring, while retaining the ability to bring them back on-premises when conditions allow.
Product-Specific Announcements
Nutanix also revealed a range of product-specific updates at the event:
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Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) v5.3 expands Smart Tiering to enable data movement to Google Cloud and OVHCloud S3, while adding multi-tenant object scaling and quotas to support large-scale AI data lakes.
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Later in 2026, NUS will introduce Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) acceleration for S3-compatible object storage, significantly boosting throughput for large AI training datasets and data-intensive pipelines.
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Nutanix Data Lens v2.0 can run fully on-premises, including in air-gapped environments, and brings ransomware analytics, data audit, governance, and visibility across distributed storage footprints to sovereign and dark site deployments that cannot rely on SaaS-based data security.
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Nutanix and MongoDB announced a certified integration between Nutanix Database Service and MongoDB Ops Manager, built on MongoDB’s third-party backup integration model.
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Nutanix Service Provider Central (SP Central) gains new multi-tenancy capabilities.
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The new Foundation Central appliance simplifies the deployment of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and the AHV hypervisor on a wide range of enterprise servers from Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, and Lenovo, as well as the NX Platform.
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Dell: Nutanix has added support for synchronous disaster recovery for Dell PowerFlex.
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Everpure: Nutanix has enhanced its Everpure integration, extending support from //X and //XL FlashArrays to the new //C FlashArray platform, and added Nutanix synchronous disaster recovery capabilities to unlock greater deployment flexibility.
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Nutanix plans to add support for AMD GPU-accelerated compute servers targeting AI workloads, providing customers with additional options.
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Cisco: Nutanix is integrating its software with Cisco’s Unified Edge, Secure AI Factory, and AI Pod.
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Dell: PowerStore support is in early access, with plans to add support for Dell PowerFlex Ultra5 environments.
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Lenovo: Nutanix is adopting a full-stack approach with support for Lenovo ThinkSystem storage, ThinkSystem servers, and XC One automation.
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NetApp: Nutanix plans to add support for NetApp ONTAP AFF all-flash A-series and select FAS hybrid-flash systems as external storage later this year. The two companies aim to expand their partnership to support emerging AI use cases, including integration with Nutanix’s Agentic AI stack.
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NCP zero-copy migrations from VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes to AHV vDisks enable organizations to perform near-instantaneous, in-place workload conversion without data duplication.
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Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM 2.0) features a new architecture that allows customers to manage large numbers of clusters at scale across multiple Prism Central (PC) instances, and brings Cost Governance on-premises—eliminating the need for a separate SaaS application.
Availability
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Nutanix Agentic AI is currently in early access and is expected to be generally available in the second half of 2026.
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The new multi-tenant and NCM capabilities for Nutanix Agentic AI are available now to early access partners and are anticipated to reach general availability in the second half of 2026.
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The NKP Metal deployment option is now in early access for NKP Pro and NKP Ult license users, with general availability planned for the second half of 2026.
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Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) 5.3 is generally available now, with NUS RDMA due later this year.
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Nutanix Data Lens 2.0 is generally available now.
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The Nutanix and MongoDB integration is generally available now.
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SP Central multi-tenancy will be generally available in the second half of 2026.
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FlexPod converged infrastructure—combining Cisco compute and networking, NetApp storage, and Nutanix software—will be available later this year.
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Dell PowerStore support is expected to be generally available later this year.
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NCP zero-copy migrations are available now.
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NC2 support for AWS GovCloud is generally available now, with AWS European Sovereign Cloud coming later this year.
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Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM 2.0) is generally available now.
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