Nutanix and Pure Storage have officially announced the general availability (GA) of their jointly engineered solution that integrates the Nutanix Cloud Platform, powered by the AHV hypervisor, with Pure Storage FlashArray™, one of the industry’s leading enterprise storage platforms. This collaboration marks an important milestone for organizations seeking modern, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure solutions capable of supporting the next generation of virtualized workloads — including AI, databases, and mission-critical business applications.

A Unified, Modern Infrastructure Stack

With this GA release, customers can now deploy Nutanix compute and management together with FlashArray storage in a fully integrated and certified configuration. Nutanix provides operational simplicity through its Prism management interface, while FlashArray brings unmatched performance, efficiency, and reliability through its NVMe-based architecture.

The overarching goal is to deliver a flexible, cloud-like experience within the data center, allowing IT teams to reduce complexity, streamline operations, and scale resources independently as business needs evolve.

Key Capabilities and Technical Advantages

1. High-Performance Storage Architecture

FlashArray’s design ensures extremely low latency and consistent performance, making it ideal for workloads that require reliable throughput and fast response times. Applications such as AI/ML pipelines, analytics engines, and large transactional databases benefit significantly from the platform’s sub-millisecond responsiveness, even under heavy load.

2. VM-Aware Storage Integration

One of the standout components of this solution is its per-VM storage provisioning model. Every Nutanix VM receives its own dedicated volume on FlashArray, enabling a granular level of control. Administrators can apply snapshots, replication policies, quality-of-service parameters, and data protection rules at the individual VM level, without affecting other workloads. This ensures predictable performance and easier troubleshooting.

3. Unified Day-1 and Day-2 Operations via Prism

Management is fully integrated into Nutanix Prism, enabling administrators to manage compute, storage, network, and protection policies from a single, intuitive interface. This unified approach eliminates the need for multiple management tools and reduces operational overhead. Tasks such as provisioning storage, monitoring health, or adjusting performance settings can all be performed quickly and consistently.

4. Enterprise-Grade Resilience and Continuity

FlashArray provides impressive six-nines (99.9999%) availability, even during upgrades. This means organizations can keep applications running without disruption while performing maintenance. The platform also includes robust replication capabilities and a roadmap for ActiveDR™ and ActiveCluster™, which will offer advanced disaster recovery and active-active multi-site deployments — essential for maintaining business continuity in distributed environments.

5. Freedom of Choice in a Transforming Virtualization Landscape

As many companies reassess their virtualization strategies due to rising licensing costs and increasing infrastructure complexity, the Nutanix + Pure Storage solution provides a compelling alternative. It allows organizations to break free from restrictive, legacy virtualization models by adopting a more open, automated, and future-ready platform. This flexibility is particularly relevant as businesses adopt hybrid multi-cloud models and require interoperability between on-prem and cloud environments.