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Nutanix Community Edition vs XCP-ng: catalog facts
Nutanix Community Edition	XCP-ng
Free Free to download after joining the Nutanix community.	Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…
Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Full-featured Nutanix platform on your own hardware Includes the AHV hypervisor and Prism management	No feature is locked behind a licence key Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts
Registration required to download Aimed at advanced users	Xen Orchestra's prebuilt appliance is a paid product; the free path is building it from source Hardware compatibility follows Xen, which is narrower than KVM
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Operating system
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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