Nutanix AHV is primarily managed through the Prism management interface. We use Prism Central, the centralized management console for AHV clusters. It allows administrators to manage multiple clusters from a single interface and provides a unified view of the entire infrastructure. Prism Element is the local management interface for individual Nutanix AHV clusters. Nutanix AHV supports virtualization management tools, allowing administrators to create, deploy, configure, and manage VMs across the infrastructure. It also offers storage management through Prism, enabling administrators to manage storage resources within the AHV environment. For network management, Nutanix integrates with Prism to provide capabilities including network configuration, virtual networking (VLAN), and firewall policies. Additionally, Nutanix AHV includes built-in automation and orchestration capabilities through Prism, benefiting administrators by automating common management tasks, workflows, and policies. We also leverage role-based access control (RBAC), which offers RBAC functionality to control access to management features and resources within the AHV environment. Nutanix & AI: While Nutanix AHV doesn't have native AI integration as a hypervisor platform, Nutanix as a company provides solutions that integrate AI capabilities with its infrastructure offerings. Nutanix uses AI for workload optimization and offers Xi Beam, a cloud-based AI service that can be integrated with Nutanix APIs and environments. It supports virtualization with AI training, hosting AI workloads and data science applications using software. Additionally, it offers AI-driven automation through its Calm automation and orchestration platform for data management. Nutanix is also developing AI-powered support, using machine learning algorithms to analyze telemetry data from AHV clusters and proactively identify potential issues. This helps streamline troubleshooting, reduce downtime, and optimize the performance of Nutanix environments.
