Cloud Computing: Nutanix hyper-converges upwards with bells, whistles and KVM
June 10, 2015
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Chris Mellor.
In the name of server and storage efficiency, Nutanix has added KVM hypervisor support, erasure coding and new management to its hyper-converged systems, and promised VVOL-type integration, container and file-serving support. The aim is evidently to increase scale-out X86 server node, storage and admin efficiency, and top-level simplicity, by converging functionality stacks below the app and admin interfaces.
At its .NEXT conference in Miami, the city where DataCore is based, it announced its Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) with Acropolis compute and storage software and its Prism management product. Acropolis consists of a customised KVM hypervisor, which along with ESXi and Hyper-V presents compute and storage services to guest OS’ and their applications…
The storage services come from a Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF): roughly a virtual SAN, offering on-demand VM-centric provisioning, compression, deduplication, data tiering, high-availability, disaster recovery, erasure coding, snapshots and clones…
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