NC2 Multi-Year License Portability
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- Kind
- Cloud policy
- Term
- Term based licensing (1 to 5 yrs) or PAYG
- Aliases
- NC2 BYOL; License portability
- Definition
- "License portability enables the transfer of existing on-premises term-based multi-year Nutanix licenses to any supported Nutanix environment in the public cloud. This bring-your-own-license (BYOL) capability ensures licenses can be used as requirements evolve into new locations and cloud providers." (NC2 Pricing & Licensing Options.)
- Commercial rules
- Alternative is PAYG: "Monthly billing based on the physical cores and storage capacity consumed", metered hourly. "any NC2 usage above planned license capacity will default to the customer selected subscription plan." Cloud instance costs are paid directly to the cloud provider. NCI on public cloud requires at least Pro edition (NCI datasheet).
- Applies to
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud bare-metal instances.
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