Open saucy Red Hat has coupled with the cloudy firm Nutanix to build, scale, and manage cloud-native applications on-premises and hybrid clouds.
The collaboration brings together different technologies, enabling installation, interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV.
Under the plan, Red Hat OpenShift is the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. In addition, customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will be able to use an industry-leading cloud platform from Nutanix, which includes both Nutanix AOS and AHV.
Nutanix Cloud Platform will be the preferred choice for HCI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. This will enable customers to deploy virtualised and containerised workloads on a hyperconverged infrastructure, building on the combined benefits of Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies and Nutanix’s hyperconverged offerings.
This makes Nutanix AHV now a Red Hat certified hypervisor – whatever that is – with full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift on Nutanix Cloud Platform. The certification of the Nutanix built-in “hypervisor”, AHV, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift offers enterprise customers a simplified full-stack solution for their containerised and virtualised cloud-native applications. In addition, this certification delivers Red Hat customers additional choices in hypervisor deployments, especially as many organisations explore virtualisation technologies. [None of this makes sense to me, Ed.]
The pair are apparently coming up with a joint engineering roadmap and will focus on delivering continuous testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift with Nutanix AHV. The companies will also collaborate to deliver quicker support by aligning product roadmaps.
