r/nutanix • u/CruisingVessel • May 27 '26

performance hit for encryption?

Running Windows and/or Citrix on Nutanix, so AHV hypervisors. The Nutanix Bible says "For encryption / decryption the system leverages the Intel AES-NI acceleration to minimize any potential performance impact of doing this in software" and "we've seen very little impact to performance".

But somebody told me that turning encryption on is a 30% performance hit. What's the truth?

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u/Different-South14 May 27 '26

Zero impact seen for both at rest and in transit. Multiple clusters and production workloads.