Arm servers are on Nutanix's long-range radar, not yet its to-do list

Nutanix is contemplating the day when it ports some of its wares to the Arm CPU family, but hasn't yet put the job on its to-do list and doesn't think its hypervisor needs to make the jump. The Register put the possibility of an Arm port to CTO Manosiz Bhattacharyya since a primary theme of Nutanix's Next conference this week …

[Anonymous Coward]

Day late, dollar short to this.

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Not really. While ARM has started to make a small imprint into customer workloads on Amazon and Oracle clouds its still very much of a niche market. In terms of corporate maket share (Nutanix target customers) ARM is still zero or a rounding error at best. There are no tier 1 vendors selling ARM Equipment into the channel yet

I would love to see readily available ARM kit but right now it doesnt exist in volume. We actually run some ARM kit in production but its very low volume kit from specialist OEM and the support is poor