# Nutanix AHV/AOS Stack

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/nutanix-ahv-aos
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/nutanix-ahv-aos.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/nutanix-ahv-aos/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://nutanix.com
- **Slug:** nutanix-ahv-aos
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, it-management-software

## Overview

- **Tagline:** A 'license-included' enterprise hypervisor (AHV) tightly integrated with a web-scale distributed storage fabric that eliminates SAN complexity.
Source: Brand's website (https://nutanix.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** The Nutanix AHV/AOS stack is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution that integrates compute, virtualization, and storage into a single software-defined platform. AHV serves as the native enterprise-grade hypervisor, while AOS (Acropolis Operating System) provides the distributed storage fabric and management intelligence.
Source: Brand's website (https://nutanix.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - AOS Storage
  - AHV Hypervisor
  - Prism Management
  - Flow Networking
  - Files
  - Volumes.
Source: Brand's website (https://nutanix.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Subscription (NCI/NCM bundles based on core/TiB)
Source: Brand's website (https://nutanix.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Enterprise Data Centers, Hybrid Cloud, Remote/Branch Office (ROBO), VDI.
Source: Brand's website (https://nutanix.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - VMware vSphere/vSAN (Broadcom)
  - Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
  - Dell EMC VxRail
  - Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Source: Brand's website (https://nutanix.com) · 2026-10-04

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