Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell

Nutanix used its annual NEXT conference to reveal it has started thinking outside the VM by making its storage stack available as a native service on Amazon Web Services' Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This move marks the first time the hybrid cloud outfit has done anything that doesn't run on a hypervisor it provides or …

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carbon reduction?

We see bad climate changes as a result of so many changes, probably "only" cars driving around town, planes flying to other countries and possibly data both traveling, and being stored, around the world. Human evolution created us, but now our working and living environment may be unhelpful for our future. I'd love a better world with a lot less carbon and energy disrupting our climates, even if that resulted in slower data and me having to bicycle or walk around town without having to worry about cars running me over ... oh, that was when I was a little kid.

[Anonymous Coward]

Live migration across nodes will also be improved, a standard feature of virtualization stacks on which Nutanix had a little catchup to do

Think that should read Live migration across CLUSTERS will also be improved, a standard feature of virtualization stacks on which Nutanix had a little catchup to do

[Nate Amsden]

VXrail

Earlier this year Dell told me that the new Broadcom reseller stuff didn't apply to VXRail (this was after Dell was no longer able to sell vSphere with their regular servers). Maybe they were wrong or the rules changed since, not sure.

[2Blockchainz]

Re: VXrail

I think that's actually true. Dell and VMwares relationship is governed by a separate agreement. So Dell can still bundle the VMw stack with their HCI appliance in a perpetual license. Last call is 2025 I believe, since Dell chose not to renew the agreement.