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Nutanix Discovery

Last updated 2026-06-22

uControl Insight discovers your Nutanix infrastructure through the Prism REST API — agentless and read-only. A single scan inventories the whole hierarchy: cluster → nodes → virtual machines → storage, with full hardware, hypervisor, networking and storage detail mapped into your asset estate and topology. The same connector works for on-premises clusters and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).

How uControl connects

Endpoint	Nutanix Prism — the cluster’s own management interface. No agent or appliance is installed on the cluster.
Protocol & port	HTTPS on port 9440.
Authentication	A Prism username and password (typically the local `admin`, or any read-capable Prism account). Standard HTTP Basic authentication.
Certificates	Self-signed Prism certificates are supported — tick Skip TLS verification on the credential.
Access required	Read-only. uControl only reads inventory; it never changes anything on the cluster.
Prism Element & Prism Central	Auto-detected per target — point at a per-cluster Prism Element address or a fleet-wide Prism Central; the connector picks the right API automatically.

On-premises and cloud are identical. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) run the same AOS/Prism software, so the same connector and credential work for both — just point the target at the relevant Prism address.

Setting up Nutanix discovery

Three steps, all in the uControl Insight UI.

Create the credential. Go to Credentials → New credential, choose type Nutanix API, and enter the Prism username and password. Tick Skip TLS certificate verification if the cluster uses a self-signed certificate (most do).
Create the discovery target. Go to Discovery → Targets → New target, choose connector Nutanix Prism, set Host to the Prism IP address or FQDN (the cluster virtual IP, or your Prism Central), confirm Port 9440, and select the credential you created.
Run the scan. Trigger the target (or let it run on its schedule). The cluster, nodes, VMs and storage appear in the asset inventory and on the topology map.

What uControl discovers

Asset	Classified as	Details captured
Cluster	Cluster	Name, AOS version, NCC version, hypervisor type, node count, redundancy factor (RF), storage type (e.g. all-flash), CPU architecture, total & used storage capacity, cluster (external) IP.
Node / Host	Hypervisor	Name, hypervisor (AHV / ESXi / Hyper-V), CPU model with cores / sockets / threads, memory, serial, block model, management IP, Controller VM (CVM) IP, IPMI IP, BIOS & BMC versions, host type, boot time, hosted-VM count, maintenance-mode state.
Virtual Machine	VM	Name, power state, vCPUs, memory, host placement, plus its virtual NICs (IP / MAC) and virtual disks.
Storage Container	Storage Pool	Name, capacity, used space, replication factor.

Per-node detail

Each Nutanix node is enriched on its asset page:

Interfaces — the node’s physical NICs (MAC, link speed, MTU).
Disks — physical disks with tier (SSD / HDD), size, model and serial.
Storage — the cluster’s storage containers with capacity and usage.
Nutanix overview card — cluster, AOS / NCC version, hypervisor, block model, CVM and IPMI IPs, serial, BIOS / BMC, and more.

Relationships (shown on the topology map)

Node hosts VM
Node is a member of Cluster
Nodes and VMs link to their storage containers

So a single Nutanix scan gives you the full hierarchy — cluster, nodes, the VMs running on each node, and the storage behind them — alongside the rest of your discovered estate.

What you need before you start

Network reachability from a uControl worker (or the control plane) to the Prism address on TCP 9440.
A Prism account with read access — the local admin account works.
For Prism Central: point the target at the Prism Central address to inventory every cluster it manages; for a single cluster, point at that cluster’s Prism Element (virtual IP).