Resilient infrastructure for modern platforms: Eaton’s powerful partnership with Nutanix for channel partners

Apr 7, 2026

By Adolfo Morales, Eaton Global Alliances Manager

As modern IT platforms continue to evolve, the need for resilient, intelligent, and scalable infrastructure has never been greater.

Organizations are embracing hybrid cloud architectures, hyperconverged infrastructure, and distributed environments to support data-intensive applications, edge deployments, and AI-driven workloads. Ensuring these platforms remain available and efficient requires an infrastructure strategy that seamlessly connects power, physical infrastructure, and software intelligence.

Powering the Digital Backbone

Solutions such as UPSs, PDUs, and connectivity are the physical backbone that supports compute, storage, and network platforms across data centers and distributed IT environments – but they’re just the beginning of the strategy. As enterprises modernize their infrastructure, platforms like the Nutanix Cloud Platform enable organizations to build flexible private and hybrid cloud environments with the simplicity of cloud operations.

Eaton is the first power management provider to achieve Nutanix Ready validation, which certifies interoperability with Nutanix architecture for complete power protection. As a Nutanix Technology Alliance partner, Eaton continues to deliver transformative power management offerings that can fully leverage Nutanix infrastructure.

While physical infrastructure is critical, visibility and control across the environment are equally important. Eaton addresses this through its Brightlayer Data Centers software suite, which delivers advanced monitoring, analytics, and automation capabilities. At the heart of the platform is a powerful Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) capability that provides a unified view of power, environmental, and operational data across the entire infrastructure stack. This allows IT teams to monitor performance, optimize capacity, and quickly identify potential issues before they impact operations.

For organizations operating across multiple remote locations, Eaton also provides Distributed IT (DIT) management software, designed specifically for environments with large numbers of distributed sites. Whether managing dozens or thousands of locations, this platform provides centralized monitoring and management capabilities that simplify operations and improve reliability across geographically dispersed infrastructures.

Integrating with Modern Cloud Platforms

As enterprises modernize their infrastructure, platforms like Nutanix Cloud Platform enable organizations to build flexible private and hybrid cloud environments with the simplicity of cloud operations.

Through integration with Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV), Eaton’s infrastructure management capabilities help bridge the physical infrastructure layer with the virtualization environment running on Nutanix hosts.

One of the most powerful aspects of this integration is automation triggered by infrastructure conditions. Events detected by Eaton power or environmental monitoring–such as power failures, UPS battery events, overload conditions, or environmental changes like rising temperature–can automatically initiate coordinated actions within the Nutanix environment to protect workloads and maintain system integrity.

Using this integration, administrators can configure automated responses such as:

• Creating, deleting, or modifying Nutanix connectors
• Viewing all virtual machines (VMs) running on Nutanix hosts
• Powering on, powering off, suspending, or resuming VMs
• Placing hosts into or out of maintenance mode
• Performing a controlled shutdown of Nutanix hosts
• Executing cluster-wide shutdown or restart procedures

By allowing infrastructure events to trigger these actions automatically, organizations can ensure that critical workloads are protected during power or environmental disruptions, helping reduce downtime risk and enabling a more resilient IT environment.

Streamlining the process for scalability

On its own, Nutanix AHV is a resilient, deeply intelligent solution with built-in virtualization. But with the addition of Eaton’s power infrastructure and management, your customers can control power resources on demand for greater data protection and simplified uptime operations from the start. The increased availability provided through Eaton’s power management solutions can help you maximize a Nutanix scale-out with minimal risk. Together, the partnership provides end-to-end solutions for your customers' IT environment – and for any application.

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