Which Nutanix offering allows for extending an on-prem datacenter into the public cloud?

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the offering specifically designed to extend on-premises private cloud environments into public clouds like AWS and Azure. It allows customers to run the full Nutanix HCI software stack, including AOS, AHV, and other services, on bare-metal instances within the public cloud. This creates a seamless hybrid cloud fabric, enabling application mobility, on-demand capacity bursting, and disaster recovery between the on-prem datacenter and the public cloud without needing to refactor applications. This model unifies management and operations across both environments through a single interface.

A. Nutanix Cloud Security: This refers to security features like Flow Network Security for microsegmentation and threat protection, which secure workloads but do not provide the infrastructure extension itself.

C. Nutanix Kubernetes Engine: This is a service for deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters. While it can operate in a hybrid cloud, it is an application platform, not the underlying datacenter extension fabric.

D. Nutanix Data Services: This is a portfolio of storage solutions, including Nutanix Files, Objects, and Volumes. These are components that run on the Nutanix platform, not the solution for extending the platform to the public cloud.

1. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Documentation: "Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS extends the simplicity and ease of use of Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the full Nutanix software stack to public cloud."

Source: Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS v4.0 Documentation, "Introduction to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS".

2. Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) Documentation: "Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) simplifies the provisioning and management of Kubernetes clusters. NKE creates and configures the infrastructure VMs for the Kubernetes control plane and worker nodes..."

Source: Nutanix Kubernetes Engine Guide v2.8, "Introduction to Nutanix Kubernetes Engine".

3. Nutanix Security Documentation: "Flow Network Security provides policy-based network segmentation to protect applications from network threats... It provides a rich visualization of the communication between VMs..."

Source: Nutanix Security Guide v6.5, "Flow Network Security".

4. Nutanix Data Services (Unified Storage) Documentation: "Nutanix Unified Storage delivers a distributed and scalable software-defined storage platform that natively supports file, object, and block storage protocols."

Source: Nutanix Unified Storage Solution Brief, Page 3, "Introduction".