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Nutanix Enterprise software licenses

The Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances for Enterprise are purchased with one of the following Nutanix software licenses:
  • Starter

  • Pro

  • Ultimate

The Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances arrive from the factory with a default Starter license. This license lasts for six years from the date of manufacture and does not require registration at the Nutanix customer Web site.

Both the Pro and Ultimate licenses require you to download a license file from the Nutanix customer Web site at http://portal.nutanix.com and install it into the cluster. When you add additional nodes, regenerate and reinstall the license file into the cluster. The Nutanix customer Web site contains information about the license types and expiration dates.

To retrieve, install, and manage your cluster licenses, refer to the “License Management” section in the Prism Web Console Guide. To obtain the Prism Web Console Guide, see Nutanix documentation.

The following tables list the features of the Starter, Pro, and Ultimate licenses.
Table 1. Comparison of availability on core data service features
Core data service featuresStarterProUltimate
Cluster size12 nodesUnlimitedUnlimited
Heterogeneous clusters
VM-Centric snapshots and clones
Data tiering
Inline compression
Inline performance deduplication
MapReduce compression 
MapReduce deduplication 
EC-X 
VM pinning  
Table 2. Comparison of availability on infrastructure resilience features
Infrastructure resilience featuresStarterProUltimate
Data path redundancy
Tunable redundancy factorTwoTwo or threeTwo or three
Availability domains 
Table 3. Comparison of availability on data protection features
Data protection featuresStarterProUltimate
1-1 replication and disaster recovery
Bi-directional replication and DR
Online cluster grow or shrink
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) integration 
Time stream 
Cloud connect 
Multi-site DR (1-to-many, many-to-1)  
Metro availability  
Table 4. Comparison of availability on security features
Security featuresStarterProUltimate
Client authentication
Cluster lockdown 
Table 5. Comparison of availability on management and analytics features
Management and analytics featuresStarterProUltimate
Pulse
Cluster health
One-click upgrades
Rest APIs 
Table 6. Comparison of availability on virtualization features
Virtualization featuresStarterProUltimate
vSphere support
Built-in Acropolis hypervisor
VM operations
VM placement
VM high availability