"SDS & Hyper-Converged" Comparison updated with Nutanix AOS 5.1

A quick post to confirm the update of the Nutanix comparison listing with the capabilities added with AOS 5.1.
You can select the 5.1 related editions from the dropdown menu at https://www.whatmatrix.com/comparison/SDS-and-HCI – check it out now!

All credits to Category Consultant Herman Rutten and to all community members that submitted feedback and change requests – thanks – keep them coming! 😉

Nutanix released AOS 5.1 with several significant enhancements and new features as well as bug fixes.

What’s New – Summary

Support for vSphere 6.5 and vCenter 6.5
XenServer Support on the following platforms:
- NX-1065-G5
- NX-3060-G5
- NX-3175-G5 / NX-3175-G5 with NVIDIA M60
Windows 2016 SVVP Certification for Acropolis Hypervisor
You can now mix all-flash (AF) and hybrid SSD/HDD nodes in the same cluster (requires min of 2 AF nodes in the cluster)
One Click Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) memory upgrade
One-Click Prism Central Cluster Registration and Prism Central Deployment
One-click “Centralized Cluster” Upgrade

Nutanix 5.1 added to WhatMatrix “Always Online” Comparison

Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) Hot Plugging Memory and CPU on Virtual Machines
Acropolis Container Services (ACS)
Acropolis Block Services (ABS) – New Client Support
Post-process compression is enabled by default on all newly-created containers clusters with Pro and Ultimate licenses
Updated NVIDIA Tesla M60 Support – supporting both, graphics mode and compute mode on the NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU card.
Docker Container Management through Self-Service Portal
Enhancements to Erasure Coding X (EC-X)
Integration with Network Functions (run network function virtual machines e.g. load balancers and firewalls to process guest VM traffic as the traffic flows through the Open vSwitch (OVS) network. Support for network function VMs is only available on AHV clusters).
Data Replication (Metro Availability and synchronous replication now supported across different hardware vendors).
Note: mixing of nodes from different vendors in the same cluster is not supported

Tech Preview (do not use in production environments)

Software-Only Support on Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
AHV GPU Pass-through
- You can also allocate multiple GPUs to a single VM

Enjoy the comparisons and keep the feedback coming!

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