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title: Creating a Nutanix AOS Cluster
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shortTitle: Nutanix
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description: Use Rancher to create a Nutanix AOS (AHV) cluster. It may consist of groups of VMs with distinct properties which allow for fine-grained control over the sizing of nodes.
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metaDescription: Use Rancher to create a Nutanix AOS (AHV) cluster. It may consist of groups of VMs with distinct properties which allow for fine-grained control over the sizing of nodes.
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[Nutanix Acropolis Operating System](https://www.nutanix.com/products/acropolis) (Nutanix AOS) is an operating system for the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure platform. AOS comes with a built-in hypervisor called [Acropolis Hypervisor](https://www.nutanix.com/products/ahv), or AHV. By using Rancher with Nutanix AOS (AHV), you can bring cloud operations on-premises.
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Rancher can provision nodes in AOS (AHV) and install Kubernetes on them. When creating a Kubernetes cluster in AOS, Rancher first provisions the specified number of virtual machines by communicating with the Prism Central API. Then it installs Kubernetes on top of the VMs.
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A Nutanix cluster may consist of multiple groups of VMs with distinct properties, such as the amount of memory or the number of vCPUs. This grouping allows for fine-grained control over the sizing of nodes for each Kubernetes role.
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- [Creating a Nutanix Cluster](../how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider/nutanix/provision-kubernetes-clusters-in-aos.md#creating-a-nutanix-aos-cluster)
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- [Provisioning Storage](../how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider/nutanix/provision-kubernetes-clusters-in-aos)
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# Creating a Nutanix Cluster
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In [this section,](../how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider/nutanix/provision-kubernetes-clusters-in-aos.md) you'll learn how to use Rancher to install an [RKE](https://rancher.com/docs/rke/latest/en/) Kubernetes cluster in Nutanix AOS. |