#Hyperconverged powerhouse #Nutanix have announced a partnership with #RavelloSystems, makers of a cloud-based lab system built on a nested hypervisor, to make testing out the #NutanixCommunityEdition very easy.
By teaming up with Ravello, Nutanix has made it easy for prospective customers, or indeed analysts like myself, to try out the #Acropolis hypervisor and its #PRISM management interface. Without a virtual option like this, a customer would need to, at the very least, acquire a compatible piece of hardware on which to install the Community Edition software. That’s a hassle, and though minor, it can be enough to delay or halt someone getting to know this platform, and maybe try someone else’s.
I received early access to the image of Nutanix Community Edition in Ravello, which was used to take the screenshot above. I can confirm that yes, it really does take mere minutes to be at the PRISM console, around ten in my case. I didn’t have to download any OVA files or .ISO images from a vendor website and then upload them, I just went to the Ravello Systems marketplace and grabbed the image. I chose the cloud to deploy to ( #Amazon’s #AWS in this case) and a few minutes later (after loading an ISO image into Acropolis via URL, no download/upload dance) I was installing Ubuntu inside Acropolis running on AWS in Ravello.
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