---
title: "Private Cloud"
slug: "private-cloud"
tags: ["ahv", "dedicated nodes", "Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure", "flow", "vmware private cloud", "nutanix private cloud", "cloud foundation", "aos"]
updated: 2025-12-17T20:15:21Z
published: 2025-12-17T20:15:21Z
canonical: "kb.expedient.com/private-cloud"
---

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# Private Cloud

### Service Overview

Private Cloud is a fully managed infrastructure-as-a-service that allows clients to run their VMware or Nutanix based workloads seamlessly on enterprise-class hardware and avoid refactoring applications while moving into a cloud operating model. Expedient maintains the hardware platform, software updates, licensing, and ongoing maintenance as a managed service so clients can focus on their applications and not the platform powering them. Clients have full admin access to their virtual machines, along with the ability to perform many of the same operations as their on-premises environment

### Service Features

- Choice of hypervisor
  - VMware Cloud Foundation
  - Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
- Pay per core
- Pay per GB of storage allocated
- All-flash storage, encrypted at rest
  - VMware: Standard and Performance Storage
  - Nutanix: Hyperconverged storage
- Support for Windows and Linux operating systems
- Software-defined networking allows clients to allocate preferred private IP networks
- Single pane of glass, linked across sites
  - VMware vCenter per site
  - Nutanix Prism Central per site
- REST API and CLI for management access and automation
- Two-factor authentication

### Default Deployment Settings

- Client private networking will be configured on the Expedient platform
- Hosts are dedicated to each client
- External networking will be configured for client tenants through a firewall
- Clients will be given access and authenticate to the management plane
- Optional: Server migration services are available to assist clients relocating workloads to Private Cloud
  - Includes both virtual-to-virtual (V2V) and physical-to-virtual (P2V) services
- Client user directory (i.e., Active Directory) will be configured for authentication
- Native KMS is our standard for Nutanix Private Cloud.
  - External and Cloud KMS solutions are client supported and may impact Expedient's ability to maintain the platform.

### Use Cases

- Virtual machines
  - Windows (64-bit only)
  - Linux
- Database platforms
  - SQL Server
  - Oracle
  - SAP
- Mission critical applications
- Test/Dev/QA workloads

### Responsibility and Accountability Matrix

| **Private Cloud Responsibility Matrix** |
| --- |
| **Task** | **Expedient** | **Client** | **Co-Managed** | **Co-Managed tasks can be performed by Expedient or Client based on Client's preference** |
| **Platform Infrastructure and Supporting Hardware Monitoring** | X |  |  |  |
| **Platform Infrastructure and Supporting Hardware Break/Fix** | X |  |  |  |
| **Firmware Updates** | X |  |  |  |
| **Platform Licensing** | X |  |  |  |
| **Platform Updates/Patches** | X |  |  |  |
| **Capacity Planning** | X |  |  |  |
| **Expedient Service Integration** | X |  |  |  |
| **Virtual Machine Configuration** |  |  | X | Expedient will not have OS access without OS Management service |
| **Virtual Machine Interaction** |  |  | X | Expedient will not have OS access without OS Management service |
| **Virtual Machine Provisioning** |  |  | X | Expedient will not have OS access without OS Management service |
| **Operating System Licensing** | X |  |  | Windows licensing must be purchased through Expedient |
| **Operating System Management, Patching, and Virus protection** |  | X |  | Expedient will not have OS access without OS Management service |
| **Workload Migration** |  |  | X | Expedient can assist with migrating virtual machines to Enterprise Cloud |
| **Network Provisioning** |  |  | X | Expedient will assist with creating tenant networks and configuring external networking |

### Supported Platforms

| #### Applications/Platforms Supported |
| --- |
| ##### **Expedient Services** - Cloud Data Protection - Push Button DR - Security CTRL - Endpoint Security - Identity Management - SIEM - Multi-Cloud Firewall - Microsegmentation - Operations CTRL - Cloud File Storage - Cloud Object Storage - Connectivity to Colocation - Enterprise Cloud Native |
| ##### Databases - SQL Server - Oracle - SAP |
| ##### Guest Operating Systems - Windows - Linux |
| ##### Virtual **Appliances** - Firewalls - Load Balancers - VPN appliances |

| #### Notable Applications/Functions NOT Supported |
| --- |
| **Operating Systems:** - Windows desktop operating systems |
| **Functions:** - RDMs are not supported - Reservations are not permitted |