Nutanix’s dictionary

Nutanix has a decent number of products in its portfolio and, like any other company in the software industry, each product has its own name and abbreviation. Below you can find a list:

NOTE: if there is a product which is not on the list, post a comment under blog post and I will update the list.

• AOS – Acropolis Operating System
• AHV – Acropolis Hypervisor
• ADFS – Acropolis Distributed FileSystem
• Nutanix Files – ( former name was AFS – Acropolis File Services)
• Nutanix Volumes – (former name was ABS – Acropolis Block Services (iSCSI block storage presented to Guest VMs))
• Nutanix Buckets – Nutanix Object storage
• ADS – Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler
• ACS – Acropolis Container Services
• AC2 – Acropolis Compute Cloud
• ADE – Acropolis Data Encryption
• LWS – Nutanix Light Weight Snapshots
• Nutanix Leap – (former name was Nutanix Xi DR – Nutanix Enterprise Cloud)
• xTract – Nutanix migration tool
  • User Guide
  • Download
• NCC – Nutanix Cluster Check
  • Download
• Nutanix VirtIO – Nutanix drivers for virtual machines
  • Download
• NGT – Nutanix Guest Tools
• Nutanix PC – Nutanix Prism Central (multi-cluster management)
• Nutanix PE – Nutanix Prism Element (single cluster management)
• Nutanix CE – Nutanix Community Edition – Free version of commercial Nutanix AOS
• CVM – Controller Virtual Machine
• SVM (legacy name for CVM)
• Nutanix Foundation – Nutanix clusters orchestration and automation provisioning tool
• Nutanix SSP – Nutanix Self-Service Portal
• Nutanix Pulse – call home feature
• Nutanix CALM – Nutanix Cloud Application Life-cycle Management
  
• Nutanix LCM – Life Cycle Management
• Nutanix Metis – allows you to qualify your platform hardware for compatibility with Nutanix software
• Nutanix Xplorer – scans your Microsoft SQL Server instances to automatically create recommended hardware configurations and platforms, so that you can migrate your SQL Server instances to a Nutanix Cloud Platform
• Nutanix X-Ray – X-Ray allows users to create custom test scenarios from X-Ray’s current test scenarios to better fit your needs
• RF=2, RF=3 – Replication Factor – simply saying, with RF=2 cluster keeps 2 copies of data, with RF=3 cluster keeps 3 copies of data
• FT2, FT3 – Redundancy Factor – (Fault Tolerance) – by default every Nutanix cluster has FT2, which means cluster can tolerate a loss of one node at time. With FT3, cluster can tolerate 2 nodes failures at the same time
• Block awareness – When certain conditions are met, Nutanix clusters are “block aware”, which means that redundant copies of any data required to serve I/O are placed on nodes that are not in the same block
• Nutanix Flow – Nutanix software define networking (SDN)
• Nutanix BEAM – SaaS servie for multi-cloud governance platform to manage spending, security and application flow
• Nutanix Era – PaaS offerings to streamline and automate database operations
• ADE – Acropolis Data Encryption
• Nutanix DVP – Nutanix Docker Volume Plugin

Changelog:

• Feb 2018 – FT and RF added
• March 2018 – Block Awareness, Nutanix CE, ADFS, Pulse
• April 2018 – added Nutanix ADS
• May 2018 –  added Nutanix Flow, Nutanix BEAM, Nutanix Era
• Jun 2018 – added Nutanix ADE
• July 2018 – added Nutanix DVP
• September 2018 – renamed:
  • Nutanix Volumes
  • Nutanix Bucket
  • Nutanix Leap
  • Nutanix Files