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What is NOS in Nutanix?
Welcome to the Nutanix world and your understand is almost correct. AOS (formerly NOS) is the Acropolis Operating System and is the base operating system that runs on each CVM. The Foundation is a tool used in field to perform cluster creation and imaging bare metal nodes.
What is Ahv in Nutanix?
AHV is an enterprise-ready hypervisor, offering integrated virtualization, app mobility, management, operational insights, and security.
What three 3 types of AOS licenses are available?
Nutanix AOS Software Licensing Models All licensing models include product entitlements for AOS, AHV, and Prism.
What is AOS distributed storage?
AOS storage is the foundation that makes HCI possible, delivering enterprise-grade availability, efficiency, and protection via a highly distributed software architecture. Replace your SAN and NAS with highly-automated, hyperconverged storage that scales with your data growth.
What is Acropolis AOS?
Acropolis Operating System (AOS) is an operating system for the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure platform. AOS contains data services for data protection, space efficiency, scalability, automated data tiering and security. AOS comes with a built-in hypervisor called Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV).
Is Ahv free?
Nutanix AHV is enterprise-grade, built-in, and license-free.
What is Ahv based on?
AHV “Invisible” Virtualization Based on proven open-source Linux virtualization, AHV delivers everything you would expect from a virtualization solution – without the cost and complexity.
What is CVM in nutanix?
Each node runs an industry-standard hypervisor (ESXi, AHV, and Hyper-V) and the Nutanix Controller VM (CVM). The Nutanix CVM is what runs the Nutanix software and serves all of the I/O operations for the hypervisor and all VMs running on that host.
What is Nutanix foundation?
The Nutanix Foundation is a tool that allow administrators to completely bootstrap, deploy and configure a bare-metal Nutanix cluster from start-to-end with minimal interaction in matter of minutes.
What is the nutanix Oplog?
Oplog is a subset of SSDs which is used to handle the random IOPs. Sequential OPs are served from the Extend store which is a combination of SSDs and HDDs.