Here are some facts on the Nutanix AHV / Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor, better known as AHV. Check out this new Nutanix AHV 5 in 5 video.

AHV is an enterprise-ready hypervisor, offering integrated virtualization, app mobility, management, operational insights, and security. … Natively integrated with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, AHV is built on proven virtualization technology and is ready for the most demanding enterprise workloads.

In this quick Nutanix AHV 5 in 5, you have seen that AHV represents an integrated, cloud model approach to virtualization that offers substantial benefits to enterprise IT administrators by simplifying every step of the infrastructure life cycle, from buying and deploying, to managing, scaling, and supporting. Natively integrated with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, AHV is built on proven virtualization technology and is ready for the most demanding enterprise workloads. Nutanix’s AHV Hypervisor was built from the ground up to provide a much simpler and more scalable hypervisor and associated management platform by leveraging the software intelligence of the hyperconverged architecture. AHV changes the core building block of the virtualized datacenter from hypervisor to application and liberates virtualization from the domain of specialists – making it simple and easily manageable by anyone from DevOps teams to DBAs.

Founded in 2009, Nutanix took the virtualization industry by storm, allowing you to build a flexible, scalable, and resource-efficient data center. Nutanix is one of the most well-known vendors that provides cloud computing services and software-defined storage. Nutanix AHV relies on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology which can integrate computing, virtualization, storage, networking, and security to meet your enterprise needs.

Nutanix AHV and its main components

Nutanix Acropolis is an operating system which allows you to create a flexible and high-performance HCI platform. Nutanix Acropolis includes a proprietary hypervisor called AHV, which is built on the open-source KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology. However, it is also compatible with Hyper-V, VMware, and XenServer hypervisors. Moreover, Nutanix AHV is available for free as it comes along with the Nutanix HCI platform.

Nutanix Acropolis OSs are available in three versions: Starter, Pro, and Ultimate. Let’s take a closer look at each of them:

• Starter is a basic HCI configuration designed for small deployments.
• Pro includes additional features on top of the standard Starter edition, and is perfect for medium-size deployments.
• Ultimate offers a full suite of HCI appliances and software-defined components, and can ensure high performance of multi-site deployments.

Want to learn more? here are some useful resources:

https://www.nutanix.com/go/ahv-best-practices-guide
https://nutanixbible.com/#anchor-book-of-ahv
https://www.nutanix.com/products/acropolis/virtualization