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Christine Austria and Curvature’s Server & Storage Solutions Sales Engineer, Matt Swann, discuss an overview of Nutanix and their core product offerings.
Christine: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Ask The Expert. We’re joined today by Matt Swann, Curvature’s Nutanix specialist. Thanks for hopping on, Matt.
Matt: Hey Christine, happy to be here. How would you like to kick this off today?
Christine: Why don’t we begin with defining what HCI is and how it pertains to Nutanix, as we often see this term come up when talking about Nutanix and their offerings.
Matt: Absolutely. HCI stands for Hyperconverged Infrastructure, an infrastructure design strategy that has been gaining popularity over the years compared to the traditional three-tiered architecture. While the traditional three-tiered architecture leverages siloed server, storage, and networking hardware, often all with their own unique management interfaces that must be configured to talk with each other, HCI natively combines these three entities into a simple hardware stack that relies heavily on virtualization to allow them to all communicate and interact with each other seamlessly, drastically simplifying the hardware monitoring workload.
Christine: Got it! So Nutanix’s product offering, is it just primarily HCI?
Matt: Correct, and as a little fun fact, Nutanix is actually the first company to offer an HCI product on the market with their Complete Cluster offering that they released back in 2011.
Christine: That’s cool! What does their modern HCI product offering look like?
Matt: At a high level, Nutanix’s main product offering can be broken down into 3 core products: their Acropolis Operating System, or AOS; their Acropolis Hypervisor, or AHV; and their management console, Prism. AOS is the main operating system environment that handles all the intricate underlying communication and virtualization of the main Nutanix offering, AHV is the hypervisor that supports and manages virtual machines created by the user, and Prism is the single pane of glass management console that allows users to interact with all parts of their infrastructure, eliminating the need for accessing multiple user interfaces.
Christine: Okay, that all sounds like software, what about the hardware component?
Matt: That’s true, and Nutanix actually prides themselves on being a software company. While Nutanix certainly has their own hardware offering, their software is hardware agnostic and will be able to function on most modern enterprise hardware available these days.
Christine: Great, so what else helps separate Nutanix from their competitors?
Matt: So, Nutanix really excels in a hybrid or multicloud environment. With Nutanix hardware sitting on premises acting as a private cloud, it can seamlessly integrate with all major public cloud vendors to tailor your hybrid cloud experience to exactly how you want it. And I know a lot of what we’ve talked about today may sound confusing, but with Curvature and our parent company Park Place Technologies being official Nutanix partners, we have our trusted team of sales solutions engineers standing by ready to discuss what moving to Nutanix might look like for you.
Christine: That’s awesome! Thanks for all the info, Matt, and thanks again everyone for tuning in. If you have any questions about Nutanix for one of our sales engineers, leave a comment below or contact us today, and we’ll see you next time on “Ask the Expert”.
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