#Nutanix announced today, at its .NEXT conference, that version 4.7 of its #hyperconverged software platform, the #Acropolis hypervisor and associated #PRISM management component, will extend outside of its traditional hyperconverged infrastructure into containers and storage services.
Acropolis Containers Services is the name of the new container-targeted function, which will permit “containerized applications and emerging microservices architectures” to be deployed directly on Nutanix gear. How exactly this will work is unclear, so I’ll need to dive into this in more detail with the company during the conference. Given that DockerCon is running this week as well, this announcement feels timed to take advantage of the interest in containers that’s running hot at the moment.
The company makes what I feel is a big call in this announcement, saying that “While the majority of services are now virtualized and will be moving to containers…” [emphasis mine]. I disagree, though in conversation yesterday with Eric Wright, Principal Solutions Engineer/Technology Evangelist at VMTurbo, he mentioned that we, as an industry, “are going to make a lot of mistakes with containers while we figure out how best to use them.” His analogy was that of P2V migrations that happened in the early days of virtualization, where people just grabbed an existing server and made it virtual, without taking advantage of the different operational possibilities of virtual machines.
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