> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.nxtsight.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# nxtVirt — Virtualization

> Manage virtual machines and containers on a single optimized platform. Bare-metal performance, live migration, and enterprise-grade security.

nxtVirt is the NxtSight virtualization platform. It enables you to manage VMs and containers on a single, unified platform with bare-metal performance, live migration, and enterprise-grade security.

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  Product details, hardware compatibility, performance benchmarks, and datasheet on NxtSight.tech
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<p style={{ fontSize: '1.25rem', fontWeight: 700, marginBottom: '0.75rem' }}>nxtVirt Documentation</p>

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  <Card title="User Guide" icon="book-open" href="/services/compute/user-guide" color="#0b5ed7">
    Launch, manage, resize, migrate, and snapshot virtual machine instances.
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  <Card title="Admin Guide" icon="settings" href="/services/compute/admin-guide" color="#0b5ed7">
    Configure hypervisor hosts, schedulers, flavors, quotas, and compute policies.
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  <Card title="CLI Reference" icon="terminal" href="/services/compute/cli-reference" color="#0b5ed7">
    Full CLI command reference for compute, flavors, aggregates, and migrations.
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  <Card title="Deployment Guide" icon="rocket" href="/deployment" color="#0b5ed7">
    Deploy nxtVirt using nxtDeploy — the NxtSight cluster provisioning and lifecycle tool.
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<p style={{ fontSize: '1.25rem', fontWeight: 700, marginBottom: '0.75rem' }}>Key Capabilities</p>

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  <Card title="Launch Instances" icon="play" href="/services/compute/launch-instance" color="#0b5ed7">
    Create virtual machines from OS images, configure networking, and attach storage in one workflow.
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  <Card title="Live Migration" icon="arrow-right-left" href="/services/compute/live-migration" color="#0b5ed7">
    Move running workloads between compute nodes with zero downtime — including vTPM-secured instances.
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  <Card title="Live vCPU & RAM Scaling" icon="trending-up" href="/services/compute/live-resize" color="#0b5ed7">
    Dynamically adjust vCPU and memory on running instances without rebooting.
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  <Card title="Snapshots & Backup" icon="camera" href="/services/compute/snapshots" color="#0b5ed7">
    Point-in-time instance snapshots with filesystem consistency and granular file-level restore.
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<p style={{ fontSize: '1.25rem', fontWeight: 700, marginBottom: '0.75rem' }}>Related Services</p>

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  <Card title="Block Storage" icon="hard-drive" href="/services/storage/index" color="#0b5ed7">
    Persistent volumes and snapshots backed by the nxtStore distributed storage backend
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  <Card title="Networking" icon="network" href="/services/networking/index" color="#0b5ed7">
    Tenant networks, floating IPs, and security groups for nxtVirt compute instances
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  <Card title="nxtStore Storage" icon="database" href="/products/nxtstore" color="#0b5ed7">
    The distributed storage layer that powers nxtVirt block volumes and image storage
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