New AHV features and deployment options ideally
suited for large-scale enterprise environments
.NEXT Conference – Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in
hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new Nutanix AHV
deployment options and programs to help customers fast-track
infrastructure modernization by reusing existing server hardware
investments, while also adding more flexibility in deployment to
meet different workload and cost management needs. Additionally,
the company announced new capabilities in the Nutanix AHV
hypervisor to strengthen resilience and support enterprise scale
deployments, to help customers looking for a new virtualization and
containerization platform.
“We made the decision to move all of our workloads, including
our mission-critical 24x7 environment, entirely to Nutanix when we
learned our existing hypervisor pricing would more than double,”
said Andrew Phan, CIO at Treasure Island and Circus Circus Hotel
Casino. “Moving to Nutanix was one of the fastest and smoothest
migrations we’ve ever had.”
New Nutanix AHV Deployment Options
Nutanix announced new AHV server capabilities, currently under
development, to help streamline customer migrations to Nutanix from
the incumbent legacy hypervisor. The company is working jointly
with Cisco to certify Cisco UCS blade servers as part of the
strategic partnership between Nutanix and Cisco. This new
functionality will enable enterprises to repurpose existing
deployed servers, including blade servers, to run the Nutanix AHV
hypervisor. This will build on flexible scaling of the Nutanix
architecture with compute-only nodes connected to HCI or
storage-only nodes. Nutanix will also expand the ability to run AHV
on a broad set of existing and new server configurations working
with OEM partners over time, as part of the Nutanix Elevate
Program.
“As customers race to modernize their infrastructure for their
most demanding applications, we are collaborating with Nutanix to
enable AHV to run on more server form factors than ever before,
starting with the Cisco blade and rack server portfolio including
the industry-leading Cisco UCS X-Series,” said Jeremy Foster,
SVP/GM, Cisco Compute. “This will provide joint Cisco and Nutanix
customers more choice as they look to modernize their data
centers.”
Additionally, Nutanix supports repurposing many of the most
popular vSAN ReadyNode configurations to help customers simplify
migration to the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution with the AHV
hypervisor by enabling reuse of existing hardware. The ability to
re-use existing server hardware, as well as the expansion of
compute-only hardware options, can help dramatically lower the TCO
for customers looking to modernize their infrastructure.
“We are excited to work with our partners to expand the reach of
Nutanix AHV to compute-only servers beyond traditional
hyperconverged servers, further accelerating its adoption by
enterprise customers to simplify operations and increase
cyber-resilience,” said Thomas Cornely, SVP of Product Management
at Nutanix. “This year celebrates the 10th anniversary of the
launch of Nutanix AHV hypervisor with a continued focus on
innovation to deliver the best enterprise virtualization and
containerization platform.”
Nutanix AHV Simplifies Digital Resilience and Enterprise
Scale Deployments
Nutanix also announced new capabilities to help protect AHV
workloads and their data from cyber attacks, as well as deliver
maximum uptime for mission-critical applications in multi-site
deployments. Specifically, Nutanix enhanced its Secure Snapshot
capability to strengthen the platform cyber-resilience with a new
multi-party approval control for privileged operations such as
snapshot changes to protect against malicious actors and
ransomware. Additionally, Nutanix AHV will enhance its Metro
solution with support for multi-site disaster recovery (DR) to help
customers more quickly recover from two simultaneous site failures.
This new functionality may be helpful for customers subject to the
Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) which will go into effect
for financial services organizations in the European Union in 2025.
Customers will be able to run their largest, mission-critical
systems on the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution and benefit from
simplified operations and a unified hybrid multicloud operating
model.
Additionally, Automatic Cluster Selection in AHV makes it easier
for customers to deliver a cloud-like, self-service experience to
their users across large Nutanix environments. This new feature
intelligently places newly created virtual machines (VMs) across a
set of clusters, balancing resource utilization without
administrator involvement, simplifying self-service application
provisioning. Nutanix also continues to enhance core virtualization
features, such as live migration. This latest innovation
accelerates live migrations, particularly for large and highly
active VMs, by managing the way memory is replicated to the
destination host in a more intelligent manner.
New AHV server capabilities and AHV Metro multi-site DR are
currently under development. Support for vSAN ReadyNode, Secure
Snapshot and Automatic Cluster Selection in AHV are currently
available to customers. More information can be found here.
Supporting Quotes:
- “Enterprise virtualization is back in the spotlight, and
Nutanix AHV is emerging as an attractive alternative for customers
looking to manage risk while modernizing their IT operations,” said
Dave Pearson, IDC’s Research Vice President for Infrastructure.
“The ability for customers to reuse existing servers as part of a
new Nutanix HCI deployment removes a common point of friction for
migrations, and improves the return on investment for organizations
looking to migrate to HCI.”
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Happy 10th Birthday AHV!
- Blog: Unlocking Performance and Seamless Operations:
Exploring New Features and Enhancements in Nutanix AOS 6.8
- Blog: Cisco and Nutanix: Taking Hyperconverged
Infrastructure to the .NEXT Level
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering
organizations a single platform for running apps and data across
clouds. With Nutanix, companies can reduce complexity and simplify
operations, freeing them to focus on their business outcomes.
Building on its legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged
infrastructure, Nutanix is trusted by companies worldwide to power
hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and
cost-effectively. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on
social media @nutanix.
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