Product Overview

Nutanix AHV

Nutanix AHV is a built-in solution for running and managing virtual machines on Nutanix systems. It is designed to help organizations run and manage virtual machines easily without other hypervisors like VMware or Hyper-V.

AHV works closely with Nutanix Prism to simplify VM management, reduce costs, and improve performance. To protect sensitive data, AHV supports data-at-rest encryption, which can be integrated with ESKM using the KMIP protocol.

Utimaco ESKM (Enterprise Secure Key Manager)

The Utimaco ESKM is a complete solution for generating, storing, serving, controlling, and auditing access to data encryption keys. It enables you to protect and preserve access to business-critical, sensitive data-at-rest encryption keys, either locally or remotely. ESKM is offering industry-certified Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)with market-leading support for partner applications and pre-qualified solutions, integrating out-of-the-box with varied deployments, as well as custom integrations.

Joint Value Proposition

The integration of Nutanix AHV with Utimaco ESKM delivers a powerful, secure, and easy-to-manage virtualization and encryption solution. Nutanix provides a modern, scalable, and user-friendly hypervisor platform, while Utimaco ESKM ensures strong key management for data-at-rest encryption. This solution helps:

  • Run virtual workloads on a simple and scalable hypervisor (Nutanix AHV).

  • Protect sensitive data using strong encryption.

  • Securely store and manage encryption keys outside the cluster (Utimaco ESKM).

  • Maintain high performance with minimal effort.