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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√√√