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  "name": "Nutanix AHV / Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (formerly Karbon)",
  "description": "Nutanix AHV is an enterprise-grade virtualization solution integrated into the Nutanix Cloud Platform, providing a native hypervisor based on KVM. Karbon, recently renamed Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE), is its enterprise-ready Kubernetes management service that simplifies the deployment and lifecycle management of K8s clusters. Together, they enable a unified management plane for virtual machines and containerized workloads within a hyperconverged infrastructure.",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T05:56:16.451+00:00",
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