Nutanix Enterprise 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.
Core data service features | Starter | Pro | Ultimate |
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Cluster size | 12 nodes | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Heterogeneous clusters | √ | √ | √ |
VM-Centric snapshots and clones | √ | √ | √ |
Data tiering | √ | √ | √ |
Inline compression | √ | √ | √ |
Inline performance deduplication | √ | √ | √ |
MapReduce compression | √ | √ | |
MapReduce deduplication | √ | √ | |
EC-X | √ | √ | |
VM pinning | √ |
Infrastructure resilience features | Starter | Pro | Ultimate |
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Data path redundancy | √ | √ | √ |
Tunable redundancy factor | Two | Two or three | Two or three |
Availability domains | √ | √ |
Data protection features | Starter | Pro | Ultimate |
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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 | √ |
Security features | Starter | Pro | Ultimate |
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Client authentication | √ | √ | √ |
Cluster lockdown | √ | √ |
Management and analytics features | Starter | Pro | Ultimate |
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Pulse | √ | √ | √ |
Cluster health | √ | √ | √ |
One-click upgrades | √ | √ | √ |
Rest APIs | √ | √ |
Virtualization features | Starter | Pro | Ultimate |
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vSphere support | √ | √ | √ |
Built-in Acropolis hypervisor | √ | √ | √ |
VM operations | √ | √ | √ |
VM placement | √ | √ | √ |
VM high availability | √ | √ | √ |