Nutanix?

Started by AnthonyC, July 15, 2015, 11:28:16 AM

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AnthonyC

July 15, 2015, 11:28:16 AM
Anyone using Nutanix in their environment?  I went through some of their training and their approach to converged infrastructure is definitely interesting.  And with their Acropolis hypervisor they are taking on the likes of VMWare/MS, definitely interesting to see how that will play out.
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deanwebb

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July 15, 2015, 11:32:36 AM
We are using it as a sort of "VBlock Lite" for file and database services at sites too small for a major datacenter, but with need for those services locally.

We are NOT going to virtualize our network devices on the Nutanix platform. It's Windows servers only, pretty much.
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July 15, 2015, 12:49:41 PM
I know of several groups that are using Nutanix with Arista.
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wintermute000

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July 15, 2015, 04:43:16 PM
I thought they were a storage fabric. Are they a hypervisor and an orchestrator?

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burnyd

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July 15, 2015, 05:30:38 PM
Its decent stuff but their controllers take up a fair share of resources and they have to stay with the individual host. 

There are some better technologies coming out ie VSAN which is primarily the technology used behind EVO RACK and EVO RAIL also Scale IO is a neato one. I probably like that one the best.

AnthonyC

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July 16, 2015, 11:17:19 AM
Quote from: wintermute000 on July 15, 2015, 04:43:16 PM
I thought they were a storage fabric. Are they a hypervisor and an orchestrator?

They started out focusing on the storage side but the main play is converged infrastructure.  They are hypervisor agnostic but more recently they came up with their own hypervisor.  As for Orchestrator, I don't believe they have something like vCAC but I could be wrong; there seems to be quite a lot you can do within Prism though (their GUI).

Quote from: burnyd on July 15, 2015, 05:30:38 PM
Its decent stuff but their controllers take up a fair share of resources and they have to stay with the individual host. 

There are some better technologies coming out ie VSAN which is primarily the technology used behind EVO RACK and EVO RAIL also Scale IO is a neato one. I probably like that one the best.

That's one of the things I want to deep dive into to compare their architectures; as there was a lot the typical vendor FUD recently between VMware and Nutanix and each making (of course) claim that their products is superior.
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