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articles/baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/about-nc2-on-azure.md

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ms.date: 03/28/2025
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AOS abstracts kvm, virsh, qemu, libvirt, and iSCSI from the end-user and handles all backend configuration. Thus users can use Prism to manage everything they would want to manage, while not needing to be concerned with low-level management.
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## SKUs
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We offer two SKUs: AN36 and AN36P. The following table presents component options for each available SKU.
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| Component |Ready Node for Nutanix AN36|Ready Node for Nutanix AN36P|
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|Core|Intel 6140, 36 Core, 2.3 GHz|Intel 6240, 36 Core, 2.6 GHz|
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|vCPUs|72|72|
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|RAM|576 GB|768 GB|
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|Storage|18.56 TB (8 x 1.92 TB SATA SSD, 2x1.6TB NVMe)|20.7 TB (2x750 GB Optane, 6x3.2-TB NVMe)|
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|Network (available bandwidth between nodes)|25 Gbps|25 Gbps|
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## Benefits of NC2 on Azure
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Running Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure offers several key benefits including
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- **Consistent tools** : Use your existing skills and tools with the Nutanix platform. Additionally, with the same Nutanix OS and Hypervisor there's no need for any application refactoring. Finally, this provides for an easy migration of VMs and workload and seamless operations in a hybrid environment.
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> [Architecture](architecture.md)
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> [Available Regions and SKUs](available-regions-skus.md)

articles/baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/architecture.md

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That operations and cluster management be nearly identical to on-premises is critical to customers.
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Customers can update capacity, monitor alerts, replace hosts, monitor usage, and more by combining the respective strengths of Microsoft and Nutanix.
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### Disaster recovery
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### Lift and shift
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Move applications to the cloud and modernize your infrastructure.
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Applications move with no changes, allowing for flexible operations and minimum downtime.
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Disaster recovery is critical to cloud functionality.
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A disaster can be any of the following:
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- Data breach
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- Equipment failure
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- Natural disaster
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- Data loss
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- Human error
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- Malware and viruses
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- Network and internet blips
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- Hardware and/or software failure
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- Weather catastrophes
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- Flooding
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- Office vandalism
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When a disaster strikes, the goal of any DR plan is to ensure operations run as normally as possible.
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While the business will be aware of the crisis, ideally, its customers and end-users shouldn't be affected.
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### Disaster recovery
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Use Azure as a disaster recovery site to provision nodes and failover your Nutanix VMs and workloads. The hardware is available on-demand and in the cloud without requring you to invest in pre-provisioning a secondary data center environment.
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Scale up and scale out as you like.
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We provide the flexibility that means you don't have to procure hardware yourself - with just a click of a button you can get additional nodes in the cloud nearly instantly.
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### Lift and shift
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Move applications to the cloud and modernize your infrastructure.
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Applications move with no changes, allowing for flexible operations and minimum downtime.
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## Supported SKUs and instances
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|Core|Intel 6140, 36 Core, 2.3 GHz|Intel 6240, 36 Core, 2.6 GHz|
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|RAM|576 GB|768 GB|
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|Storage|18.56 TB (8 x 1.92 TB SATA SSD, 2x1.6TB NVMe)|20.7 TB (2x750 GB Optane, 6x3.2-TB NVMe)|
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| Australia East | AN36P |
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title: Available Regions and SKUs for Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure
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description: Learn about the available regions and SKUs for Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure.
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# Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure region and SKU availablity
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Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure are offered in three different Ready Node or SKU types and many Azure regions.
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## Supported SKUs and instances
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| Component |Ready Node for Nutanix AN36|Ready Node for Nutanix AN36P|Ready Node for Nutanix AN64|
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|Core|Intel 6140, 36 Core, 2.3 GHz|Intel 6240, 36 Core, 2.6 GHz| Intel 8462Y+, 64 Core, 2.8 GHz|
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|vCPUs|72|72|128|
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articles/cost-management-billing/reservations/nutanix-bare-metal.md

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You can save money on [Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure](../../baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/nc2-baremetal-overview.md) with reservations. The reservation discount automatically applies to the running NC2 workload on Azure hosts that match the reservation scope and attributes. A reservation purchase covers only the compute part of your usage and doesn't include software licensing costs.
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You can save money on [Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure](../../baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/available-regions-skus.md) with reservations. The reservation discount automatically applies to the running NC2 workload on Azure hosts that match the reservation scope and attributes. A reservation purchase covers only the compute part of your usage and doesn't include software licensing costs.
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- **Clouds** - Reservations are available only in the regions listed on the [Supported regions](../../baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/available-regions-skus.md#supported-regions) page.
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