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Systems & Data Center · Intermediate

Nutanix AHV

Nutanix's enterprise KVM-based hypervisor included with the Nutanix Cloud Platform.

Definition

AHV is managed through Prism and integrates with Nutanix distributed storage, with features such as live migration, HA, ADS (acyclic dynamic scheduling), microsegmentation through Flow and VM-level snapshots.

Example

An organization migrates VMs from ESXi to AHV using Nutanix Move.

Exam tip

AHV is KVM-based and requires no separate hypervisor license on Nutanix.

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