Nutanix, the enterprise cloud computing provider, has announced new capabilities that tear down the IT silos that it says have emerged with every new generation of applications. The enhancements demonstrate how Nutanix has evolved from a single-product hyperconverged infrastructure vendor to a broad platform company that runs all applications and connects to other popular technology stacks.
Runs all workloads
With Acropolis Container Services (ACS), containerised applications and emerging microservices architectures can now be deployed on the Nutanix platform with persistent storage - avoiding the painful tradeoff in DevOps environments of using virtualisation for applications requiring persistent storage and containerisation for others. Both traditional and next-generation applications can leverage the rich storage performance, capacity optimisation and data protection capabilities of the Nutanix web-scale platform.
According to Gartner*, "when containers are deployed in production use cases, where long-term data persistence and protection, container-aware data services, granular quality of service (QoS) and scheduler integration are key requirements, storage managers need to rethink data management."
While the majority of services are now virtualised and will be moving to containers, certain applications such as Oracle RAC and DB2 may continue to run on bare metal servers due to specific application needs or licensing constraints. Acropolis Block Services (ABS) enables databases running on servers from Cisco, Dell and HP to directly leverage the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric for the highest levels of data performance and availability.
All-flash nodes are now available across the full portfolio of Nutanix appliances, giving organisations an alternative to all-flash arrays (AFA) from EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage.
Balancing developer and operator needs
With the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, data centres can now achieve the same degree of automation as the public cloud. New Nutanix Prism self-service capabilities enable developers and line-of-business operators to directly provision and manage applications and associated infrastructure resources, while still allowing IT administrators to retain infrastructure control. Further, Prism’s One-click Planning now includes advanced scenario-based modelling.
Data centre operators will also benefit from more invisible operations as a result of new AHV dynamic scheduling. AHV is Nutanix's native hypervisor. This capability delivers intelligent placement of VMs based not only on analysis of compute and memory resources as with traditional virtualisation solutions, but also real-time analysis of storage utilisation.
A new Network Visualization capability provides more visibility into how VMs are connected to both physical and virtual networks, simplifying remediation of network issues.
Connecting different technology stacks
The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform is extensible with application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling customers and partners to take advantage of the underlying Web-scale platform. With support for multiple hypervisors, the platform can be easily extended to build a complete cloud.
● Nutanix OpenStack drivers, which offer an easy way to build private clouds using OpenStack software, are now available
● A jointly engineered solution with Microsoft brings together the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS) and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to deliver an Azure-like hybrid cloud environment
● With the upcoming release, Nutanix Prism will be able to manage VMware ESXi environments
Interested?
*Gartner, Containers Will Change Your Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Strategy, Arun Chandrasekaran, Andrew Lerner, Dennis Smith, March 28, 2016.
Runs all workloads
With Acropolis Container Services (ACS), containerised applications and emerging microservices architectures can now be deployed on the Nutanix platform with persistent storage - avoiding the painful tradeoff in DevOps environments of using virtualisation for applications requiring persistent storage and containerisation for others. Both traditional and next-generation applications can leverage the rich storage performance, capacity optimisation and data protection capabilities of the Nutanix web-scale platform.
According to Gartner*, "when containers are deployed in production use cases, where long-term data persistence and protection, container-aware data services, granular quality of service (QoS) and scheduler integration are key requirements, storage managers need to rethink data management."
While the majority of services are now virtualised and will be moving to containers, certain applications such as Oracle RAC and DB2 may continue to run on bare metal servers due to specific application needs or licensing constraints. Acropolis Block Services (ABS) enables databases running on servers from Cisco, Dell and HP to directly leverage the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric for the highest levels of data performance and availability.
All-flash nodes are now available across the full portfolio of Nutanix appliances, giving organisations an alternative to all-flash arrays (AFA) from EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage.
Balancing developer and operator needs
With the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, data centres can now achieve the same degree of automation as the public cloud. New Nutanix Prism self-service capabilities enable developers and line-of-business operators to directly provision and manage applications and associated infrastructure resources, while still allowing IT administrators to retain infrastructure control. Further, Prism’s One-click Planning now includes advanced scenario-based modelling.
Data centre operators will also benefit from more invisible operations as a result of new AHV dynamic scheduling. AHV is Nutanix's native hypervisor. This capability delivers intelligent placement of VMs based not only on analysis of compute and memory resources as with traditional virtualisation solutions, but also real-time analysis of storage utilisation.
A new Network Visualization capability provides more visibility into how VMs are connected to both physical and virtual networks, simplifying remediation of network issues.
Connecting different technology stacks
The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform is extensible with application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling customers and partners to take advantage of the underlying Web-scale platform. With support for multiple hypervisors, the platform can be easily extended to build a complete cloud.
● Nutanix OpenStack drivers, which offer an easy way to build private clouds using OpenStack software, are now available
● A jointly engineered solution with Microsoft brings together the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS) and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to deliver an Azure-like hybrid cloud environment
● With the upcoming release, Nutanix Prism will be able to manage VMware ESXi environments
Interested?
- Nutanix OpenStack drivers are available immediately.
- Microsoft CPS on Nutanix will be available by July 2016.
- Acropolis Block Services and Acropolis Container Services will be available in July 2016 in the 4.7 release.
- Nutanix Prism self-service capabilities, scenario-based modelling, AHV dynamic scheduling, ESXi management from Prism and network visualisation will be available in a subsequent release.
*Gartner, Containers Will Change Your Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Strategy, Arun Chandrasekaran, Andrew Lerner, Dennis Smith, March 28, 2016.
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