Back to All Partners Nutanix INVITE Networks is an authorized Nutanix partner delivering hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) design, deployment, and managed services for enterprise and mid-market organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West. INVITE handles Nutanix AOS sizing, cluster deployment, Prism management, and ongoing platform operations — so your team gets the simplicity of HCI without dedicating internal resources to running it. TL;DR: INVITE Networks architects and manages Nutanix HCI environments for organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West that are consolidating legacy three-tier infrastructure, refreshing aging VMware environments, or building out a private cloud. INVITE is a certified Nutanix partner with hands-on experience across AOS, AHV, Prism Central, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure. This page is for IT directors and VPs of Infrastructure evaluating a Nutanix partner who can own the full deployment, migration, and ongoing management. What does INVITE Networks deliver as a Nutanix partner? Nutanix is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform that collapses compute, storage, and networking into a single software-defined layer, eliminating the complexity of traditional three-tier data center architecture. Nutanix AOS (Acropolis Operating System) runs on commodity or Nutanix-certified hardware nodes, managed centrally through Prism — a single pane of glass that gives IT teams visibility and control across clusters, workloads, and cloud resources. INVITE Networks delivers Nutanix as part of its managed services portfolio. This includes infrastructure sizing and capacity planning, hardware procurement, AOS and AHV deployment, cluster configuration, VM migration from legacy environments, and ongoing platform management. Organizations working with INVITE get a fully operated Nutanix environment — from initial architecture through day-two operations. Why do Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Mountain West organizations choose INVITE for Nutanix HCI? Organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West choose INVITE for Nutanix because complexity is where deployments fail. Nutanix is designed to simplify infrastructure, but migrating workloads from legacy VMware or three-tier SAN environments, tuning storage policies, configuring Nutanix Flow microsegmentation, and integrating with existing backup platforms requires experience that most internal teams don’t have on staff. A 500-person healthcare organization in Phoenix engaged INVITE to replace a seven-year-old three-tier VMware and SAN environment that had become a reliability liability. INVITE designed a four-node Nutanix NX-Series cluster running AHV, migrated 60+ VMs using Nutanix Move with zero production downtime, and configured Nutanix Mine with HYCU for integrated backup. The result: a 40% reduction in infrastructure footprint, a single management console replacing four separate tools, and full platform management handed off to INVITE under a managed services agreement. How does INVITE manage Nutanix as part of its managed services? INVITE integrates Nutanix management into its managed services operations center. This includes 24/7 monitoring of cluster health, node failures, storage capacity, and AOS performance metrics via Prism Central and INVITE’s NOC tooling. INVITE manages AOS and AHV lifecycle upgrades, applies NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) health checks on a scheduled basis, and handles all support cases with Nutanix directly. For organizations with hybrid or multi-cloud requirements, INVITE architects Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS or Azure, extending your on-premises Nutanix environment to public cloud using the same Prism management plane. This is particularly valuable for disaster recovery and cloud bursting scenarios without retraining staff on new tooling. What Nutanix products does INVITE deploy and manage? INVITE’s Nutanix practice covers the core HCI platform and the full Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) stack. For primary compute and storage, INVITE deploys Nutanix NX-Series hardware nodes running AOS with either AHV (Nutanix’s native hypervisor) or VMware ESXi, depending on customer requirements. INVITE architects and manages Nutanix Prism Central for centralized cluster management, policy automation, and capacity analytics. Beyond core HCI, INVITE delivers Nutanix Flow for software-defined networking and microsegmentation — a key component for organizations building zero trust security architectures. INVITE also deploys Nutanix Files and Objects for software-defined NAS and S3-compatible object storage, and Nutanix Calm for infrastructure automation and self-service VM provisioning. Each component is deployed within INVITE’s managed services framework, with ongoing monitoring and optimization included. Looking for a Nutanix partner who manages the HCI environment, not just sells the nodes? Contact INVITE to discuss a Nutanix engagement for your organization. Frequently Asked Questions: Nutanix HCI Management Is INVITE Networks a certified Nutanix partner? Yes. INVITE Networks is an authorized Nutanix solution provider. INVITE’s engineers hold Nutanix certifications and the company maintains an active partner relationship with access to Nutanix’s full product portfolio, deal registration, and technical support escalation paths. Can INVITE manage Nutanix for an organization that has no HCI experience internally? Yes — this is one of the most common scenarios INVITE encounters. Many mid-market organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West are migrating from legacy infrastructure for the first time. INVITE provides end-to-end services: architecture, migration planning, deployment, and ongoing managed operations. Your internal team doesn’t need prior Nutanix experience — INVITE’s engineers handle the platform entirely. Does INVITE support AHV, or only VMware on Nutanix? INVITE supports both. For organizations already invested in VMware licensing, INVITE can deploy Nutanix with ESXi as the hypervisor. For organizations looking to reduce VMware licensing costs, INVITE has deep experience with Nutanix AHV and can manage AHV-native environments as well as migrations from ESXi to AHV. INVITE provides guidance on the licensing trade-offs as part of the architecture process. How long does a Nutanix HCI deployment typically take with INVITE? A standard Nutanix cluster deployment — including hardware delivery, racking, AOS installation, cluster configuration, and initial VM migration — typically takes 3 to 6 weeks depending on the number of nodes and the complexity of the existing environment. INVITE provides a detailed project plan before work begins, with weekly status reporting throughout the engagement.
