Nutanix Takes ‘Cloud To The Next Level’ With New 7.5 Platform, CEO Says

Nutanix launches the Nutanix Cloud Platform 7.5 with a slew of new tools, features and capabilities. Here are 10 new features inside NCP 7.5 that every Nutanix partner and customer should know about.

In one of its biggest product releases in years, Nutanix has launched a new version of its flagship solution—the Nutanix Cloud Platform—with a slew of new AI, management, Nvidia, security, data sovereignty and Kubernetes capabilities.

“Nutanix Cloud Platform 7.5 takes our view of the distributed sovereign cloud to the next level,” said Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami in a video statement.

“This release introduces capabilities that make building and operating a distributed sovereign cloud easier, more secure and more resilient than ever,” Ramaswami said.

CRN breaks down 10 huge new features inside the new Nutanix Cloud Platform 7.5 that every partner, investor and customer should know about.

Automate ‘Dark Site’ Upgrade

Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) 7.5 provides new orchestrated lifecycle management of multiple dark-site environments, along with on-premises deployment options for governance and control planes.

“Managing upgrades in secure, air-gapped environments is no longer a manual, error-prone process,” said William Parks, Nutanix’s senior product marketing manager, in a blog post.

“The new LCM Dark Site Orchestrator (LCM DUO) provides a self-service workflow to identify, download and stage the exact bundles you need, removing the guesswork,” Parks added.

Nutanix Enterprise AI Boost Via Nvidia And New LLM Dashboard

With the launch of NCP 7.5, Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) customers can now deploy leading AI models with Nvidia NIM microservices running in containers.

Additional Nutanix AI security enhancements include stronger identity integration, fine-grained access controls for models, and expanded logging and monitoring to support governed AI workloads.

New object detection and data parsing Nvidia NIM microservices have also been qualified and added into Nutanix Enterprise AI.

NAI also adds a new LLM metrics dashboard that provides great insight into request and token activity, helping teams better monitor and manage AI workloads.

Click through to read about the other new features and capabilities inside NCP 7.5.

New Automation Tool

Nutanix launched a new automation tool, the Nutanix Infrastructure Manager, inside NCP 7.5 streamline deployments using validated design patterns, making it easier to stand up and maintain data center environments.

A unified network control plane provides a single view of VLANs, virtual networks, and microsegmentation policies, giving administrators centralized visibility and control across the entire network—including on-premise and public cloud environments.

Up To 185TB Of All-Flash Capacity Per Node

With the new NCP 7.5, customers can now drive up to 185-TB of all-flash capacity per node with new or existing clusters.

This represents a 2X increase compared to Nutanix’s previous platform, Parks said, “While maintaining a one-hour RPO [recovery point objective]. This lets you efficiently scale capacity for your applications.”

New Data Services For Kubernetes Features

NCP 7.5 now includes enhanced features of the Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes.

The feature extends tiered synchronous and asynchronous disaster recovery protections to containers with both block and file data, enabling organizations’ governance and compliance objectives for modern Kubernetes applications including AI-native applications.

Additionally, Nutanix Data Lens can now run in customer-controlled on-premises environments. Data Lens simplifies unstructured data security, governance, and ransomware resilience.

New Disaster Recovery Plan Staging

After a failover, customers need to validate data before replicating it back.

To solve this, Parks said Nutanix has “introduced Recovery Plan Staging, giving you the control to pause automatic reverse replication and preserve data integrity.”

Nutanix disaster recovery capabilities can now support up to 10,000 VMs for all RPO types and scaling to 2,000 Volume Groups for synchronous replication per Prism Central.

New VM Startup Policy

Nutanix is automating disaster recovery with a new VM Startup Policy inside Nutanix AHV.

“You can now define dependency chains (e.g., database before app server) to have multi-tier applications restart in the correct order after any High Availability event or cluster reboot,” said Parks.

Enhancing Security And Compliance

The NCP 7.5 now includes the new Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking CNI Plugin that delivers a unified, VPC-based networking fabric for Kubernetes.

“This aligns your pod networking with the same simple constructs you already use for your VMs,” said Parks.

Nutanix is also extending VPC-based isolation, network load balancing, and microsegmentation capabilities to containerized workloads to give customers consistent control across VMs and containers.

Nutanix Disaster Recovery Boost

New capabilities inside NCP 7.5 strengthen resilience by enabling customers to maintain application availability across sites and regions during outages, essential for sovereignty-aligned environments that must avoid single-site or single-vendor dependency.

Nutanix customers can now apply sophisticated tiered disaster recovery options that match protection levels to each workload, for additional fault tolerance and cyber recovery resilience.

New capabilities help ensure business continuity even in the event of up to three site or region failures.

New integration of multicloud snapshots into the tiered approach ensures an added layer of protection for cyber-resilience objectives. Security policies stay consistent during failover and live migration, reducing operational gaps when workloads move.

“We’ve added tiered disaster recovery strategies with integrated multi cloud snapshots,” said Nutanix CEO. “Enterprises today need resilience and flexibility across distributed environments. That's why Nutanix pioneered the concept of the distributed sovereign cloud.”