Nutanix did build 'Acropolis' hypervisor, wants you to bury it As predicted by The Register, Nutanix has built a hypervisor called Acropolis, but is using it for more than scale-out compute and an assault on VMware. Instead, the company wants to abstract all the stuff that makes up modern applications and make managing infrastructure idiot-proof. We'll explain that in a moment. The …
I tried to read the whole article I really did but my BRAIN nearly EXPLODED with all the marketing crap spewing at me.
So they've invented a hypervisor, which is actually KVM.
The hypervisor is app centric, instead of VMs it actually houses the OS, containers, software and drivers that make up the app. Or FSCHKING VMS as we call them.
All of this, just as the rest of the industry is on the cusp of SaaS for pretty much everything, negating the need for these marketeers.
But that's Nutanix for you. They've been the worst offender in the bull$hit peddling. Their early "white papers" (marketing brochures really) were an attempt to mention "Google" and "web-scale" as often as possible per paragraph. Problem is, they are neither. Nor are their customers.
Their shitty VSA doesn't scale beyond 15 nodes, Nutanix' claims notwithstanding. Every fncking Nutanix cluster I have seen was split into silos of 10ish nodes and the reason they were bought in the first place was because some server dude was pissed off at the storage guys. Or the VMware guys had delusions of grandeur and thought they understood enterprise storage.
Can't wait until these idiots meet their demise. Silicon Valley surely is a bunch of arrogant pricks, but the Nutanix a-holes are the biggest of all.
Not dinosaurs, no. Just people with genuine enterprise experience who can see through the marketing to the problems that are ahead. There is no free lunch, and I can take you through the maths of how, when and why your solution will fail. Even the Nutanix techies will admit it performs like crap when set to certain workloads if you ask the right questions. Just a hint though, as you're obviously new, the guy who comes to you to sell a Nutanix is not a techie...they are all locked up in the call centre away from customers.
I can haz anon tu?
COBOL is nothing to do with enterprise storage, try googling data consistency, cache coherency latency, high availability and you'll be on the right track. Nutanix fails on all fronts for real workloads that people care about. It'll do for VDI because not even the users care if that shits the bed and fails. Sql admins, on the other hand, think this technology is some kind of joke from the tweeny generation who will only work out why they are wrong following the first massive data corruption and/or bottoming out of the cache and/or loss of node and subsequent loss of data due to incorrect write back behaviour. Oh yes, Google write through cache too...
Customer luck stories you mean. Enterprise storage is about the long term not just implementations that sound cool on paper. AC you're presumably an employee so biased but I've yet to meet anyone with experience who wasn't concerned by the trade off between latency and data consistency in this solution for any real data driven workload. Also the performance figures based on cache performance is a major concern for people doing real work too
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