The hypervisor is said to be lightweight, speedy and suited to VMs or containers. That’s made possible, in part, by the Acropolis hypervisor, a custom cut of KVM tuned to the company’s app management ambitions. The idea is that instead of managing VMs, IT folk can manage all the hardware and software dedicated to a particular application. The company’s Distributed Storage Fabric is one temple on the Acropolis and does all the fun software-defined storage things that have made Nutanix a $300-million business.Īlso on the Acropolis is the “App Mobility Fabric”, tools that manage VMs but do so from an application-centric point of view. The first is “Acropolis”, which is now the umbrella name for Nutanix’s compute and storage offerings.
The company’s now talking about a platform it’s calling the Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP), which has two parts. Instead, the company wants to abstract all the stuff that makes up modern applications and make managing infrastructure idiot-proof. Hyper-upstart wants to manage apps, not virtual machines, without sysadmin helpĪs 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.
