Simplify the Infrastructure You Have. Stay Ready for What Comes Next.
Nutanix collapses compute, storage, virtualization, and recovery into one platform your team manages as a single system. Ark does the work around it: assessing the current environment, architecting the target, migrating workloads off VMware or Hyper-V, building replication, and operating it afterward at whatever level of support you want.
Compute · storage · virtualization · replication, managed together
The functions do not go away. The number of places you manage them from does.
Four Pressures Arriving at the Same Time.
The Refresh Decision
Compute and storage reach end-of-service together, and the quote in front of you rebuys the same architecture for another five years.
Platform and Licensing Change
Virtualization licensing has moved under many organizations. Renewal is no longer an automatic decision, and evaluating alternatives takes time teams do not have.
Too Many Separate Tools
Compute, storage, hypervisor, and backup each carry their own console, support contract, and renewal date, and each needs someone who knows it.
Questions the Platform Has to Answer Later
Cloud integration, distributed sites, containers, and internal AI initiatives are all live conversations. A five-year infrastructure decision made today has to leave room for them.
Six Stages, and Ark Carries the Hard Parts of Each.
Understand the Environment Before Proposing Anything
What is actually running, what depends on what, where capacity is really going, and which workloads are straightforward to move versus which need care. This is also where cloud and future AI requirements get raised, before the platform is sized rather than after.
Size the Platform to the Workloads, Not the Brochure
Cluster design, node sizing, network integration, and the recovery model, designed against the workloads found in the assessment and the growth the business actually expects.
Build It the Same Disciplined Way Every Time
Ark builds to Nutanix’s own current deployment standard, refreshed for each project rather than maintained from memory, including the vendor-specific paths, since Cisco-based builds pick up their Cisco Intersight steps. The first cluster in a new environment takes the longest; the process compresses from there.
Move the Workloads With the Risk Planned out of It
Sequencing, validation, and cutover support for moves off VMware, Hyper-V, or an existing cluster, whether partial or complete. This is the stage Ark is on for nearly every Nutanix project.
Build the Replication and Recovery Model
Configure native replication and recovery, and consolidate a separate backup or DR product into the platform where it makes sense. Setup is the complicated part; Ark does that so day-to-day operation stays simple.
Stay Involved for as Long as You Want Us Involved
Hand the environment over, share operations with your team, or let Ark run it, including monitoring, upgrades, capacity, and lifecycle planning.
The Platform Is the Easy Part. Moving to It Is the Project.
Buying a new platform is a decision. Getting hundreds of workloads onto it without disrupting the business is the work, and it is the part Ark is engaged on for nearly every Nutanix project we deliver.
- VMware environments
- Hyper-V environments
- Existing virtual clusters
- Partial moves: a subset of workloads
- Full environment migrations
- Inventory and dependency mapping before anything moves
- Sequencing: what moves together, what moves last, what waits
- Validation that each workload behaves the same on the other side
- Cutover planning around your maintenance windows
- Nutanix migration tooling, driven by engineers who have used it repeatedly
- Rollback positions at each stage, not just at the end
Nutanix provides a migration utility. Most of the value is in the planning around it: knowing what breaks, what order to move in, and what to check before you call a workload done.
Complicated to Set Up. Simple to Run.
Replication and recovery are built into the platform rather than bought as a separate product. For many organizations that means one fewer vendor, one fewer console, and one fewer renewal, with recovery configured against the same infrastructure the workloads already run on.
The honest part: configuring it correctly takes real work. Getting it right the first time is where the difficulty lives, and where Ark is most useful. Once the model is built and tested, running it day to day is straightforward, which is exactly why it makes sense for Ark to do the setup and your team to own the operation.
Fewer Moving Parts
Recovery tooling consolidated into the platform where it makes sense, rather than maintained alongside it.
A Tested Model, Not a Document
Replication configured, failover exercised, and the recovery path proven before you need it.
Operations Your Team Can Hold
Ark absorbs the complex configuration so the ongoing job stays inside your team’s capacity.
Replication and recovery capabilities differ by Nutanix license tier. Ark will tell you what your licensing actually covers before designing around it.
The Same Platform, as the Requirements Change.
None of this has to be decided on day one. It has to be possible on day one.
A Route to Cloud, Not an Ultimatum
Integrate with Azure and AWS and move workloads deliberately, on the timeline the business supports. Modernizing on-premises and adopting cloud stop being competing decisions.
Small Footprints That Still Behave Like Infrastructure
Remote sites, branches, and facilities can run on modest node counts while keeping cluster-level resiliency and staying under the same central management as the core.
One Environment for Both
Container workloads run alongside the virtual machines already in production, under the same platform and the same operating model, rather than as a separate estate someone has to learn.
Infrastructure That Will Not Be the Blocker
Most internal AI conversations stall on two questions: where the compute comes from, and where the data already lives. Running AI containers next to the data on the same platform answers both, and capacity grows by expanding the cluster rather than building something separate.
Infrastructure is one input to an AI program, not the whole of it. Data quality, governance, security, and choosing the right use case all need their own work. What Ark can do here is tell you honestly whether your infrastructure is ready, and what it would take to get there.
Nutanix also offers automated telemetry and operational response, including moving workloads to another site automatically if one becomes unavailable. Available capability depends on licensing; Ark will confirm what applies to your environment.
Three Ways This Ends. All of Them Are Fine With Us.
You Run It
Ark designs, deploys, migrates, and hands over a documented environment your team owns outright.
- Full design and deployment
- Migration and validation
- Documentation and knowledge transfer
- Available for projects as they come up
We Run It Together
Your team keeps day-to-day control while Ark covers the work that is occasional, specialized, or inconvenient to staff for.
- Shared operational responsibility
- Ark handles upgrades and lifecycle work
- Escalation path into Ark engineering
- Capacity and expansion planning
Ark Runs It
The platform becomes Ark’s responsibility, operated under managed infrastructure services alongside the rest of your environment.
- Monitoring and day-2 operations
- Upgrades, patching, and health
- Capacity management
- End-of-service roadmaps
Nutanix Is One Layer. Ark Covers the Ones Around It.
Cisco
Nutanix runs on the network beneath it. Ark designs both, including Cisco-based Nutanix builds, where the Cisco integration steps are part of the deployment rather than a separate project.
Ark + Cisco →Azure & AWS
Hybrid designs that let workloads move between the data center and cloud deliberately, instead of forcing an all-or-nothing migration.
Infrastructure Services →Ark Managed Services
Monitoring, upgrades, patching, capacity, and lifecycle planning: the platform operated as part of a wider managed environment.
Managed Services →Facing a Virtualization or Data Center Decision?
Tell Ark what you are running today and what is forcing the decision: a renewal, an end-of-service date, a recovery gap, or a question about what the platform needs to support in three years. We will give you a straight read on the options.