IBM Hyperconverged Systems Powered by Nutanix

IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix delivers the first hyperconverged solution that combines Nutanix’s software-defined simplicity with the performance of the IBM Power Architecture

Combining the IBM Power architecture with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software-defined solution allows the compute-intensive and data-intensive workloads for which IBM POWER was designed to be run on a hyperconverged private cloud in a seamless and compatible way.

IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix offers:

A simplified public cloud-like experience harnessing the Power architecture for the enterprise on-premises data center
Virtualization management with Nutanix AHV, advanced planning, and remediation with machine learning, app mobility, micro-segmentation, and more, with one-click automation
An integrated one-click management stack with the Prism management control plane to eliminate silos and reduce the need for specialized IT skills to build and operate cloud-driven infrastructure
Deploying stateful cloud native services using Acropolis Container Services with automated deployment and enterprise persistent storage

Power Systems servers are designed for mission-critical applications and emerging cognitive era workloads, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, advanced analytics and HPC, data lakes, and operational data stores. Designed to help deliver efficiency whether deployed in a private, public, or hybrid cloud, the servers benefit from a range of open technologies, many stemming from collaboration with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members. Clients today can benefit from performance that covers a variety of data-intensive workloads.

This joint initiative helps bring new workloads to hyperconverged deployments by delivering a simple-to-deploy, web-scale architecture supporting Power technology-based scale-out computing for a continuum of enterprise workloads, including:

Next-generation cognitive workloads, including big data, machine learning, and AI
Mission-critical workloads, such as databases, large-scale data warehouses, web infrastructure, and mainstream enterprise apps
Cloud-native workloads, including full stack open source middleware and enterprise databases and containers

Key prerequisites
IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix is offered and will be defaulted/required on these Power servers only: