Opinion: Nutanix Acropolis and VMware
I was lucky enough to attend the inaugural Nutanix .NEXT conference in Miami the last 3 days. I learned a lot and met many new faces. Here is the bottom line: Nutanix has released their flavor of the KVM hypervisor dubbed " Acropolis ". So what does that mean for you VMware shops? Right now, possibly lower or complete removal of hypervisor licensing costs. However, VMware is a leader for a reason, so you will likely need to augment by using something like VMTurbo to manage and give you smarter DRS like capability plus more. I'll need to read-up on Acropolis feature sets, but the fair comparisons would likely be between the base vSphere ESXi editions (including vCenter) vs Acropolis / Prism and/or the vCloud Suite vs. Acropolis / Prism / VMTurbo combo. It's going to come down to features and price. I'm thinking personally that it "MIGHT" be cheaper to go an Acropolis / Prism / VMTurbo route strictly from a licensing perspecti...