Nutanix today announced new solutions that will allow IT teams to deploy, upgrade and troubleshoot their cloud infrastructure while working from anywhere. These solutions will be delivered via Nutanix Foundation Central, Insights and Lifecycle Manager – all of which will be available as part of Nutanix HCI software at no additional cost to customers.
Greg Smith, VP of Product Marketing, Nutanix
“Nutanix was founded with a vision – to make IT infrastructure management so simple, that it essentially becomes invisible,” said Greg Smith, VP of Technical and Product Marketing at Nutanix. “These new capabilities will offer an even more seamless experience from day one and beyond – from anywhere. Nutanix’s simplified management as well as a more secure and resilient IT infrastructure, whether from home or a remote location, is something that is now more important than ever.”
These Nutanix solutions will allow IT teams to remotely manage cloud infrastructure throughout the entire software lifecycle.
New or Expanded Cloud Infrastructure Deployments
Managed through the Prism interface, Nutanix Foundation Central allows IT teams to deploy private cloud infrastructure on a global scale from a single interface, and from any location. After quickly installing non-configured appliances or servers on-site, Foundation Central then takes over to image and configure Nutanix nodes, and install any Nutanix software solution.
In addition to automating and centralizing infrastructure software deployment, Foundation Central enables organizations to simply scale existing infrastructure capacity to keep pace with business growth.
Predictive Health and Intelligent Support
The new service will analyze telemetry from customers’ cloud deployments to identify on-going and potential issues that could impact application and data availability. Once identified, the Insights service can provide customized recommendations to optimize the health and performance of the infrastructure.
Additionally, the Insights service can automatically open a support ticket with Nutanix, have a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) assigned, and optionally collect and upload all relevant customer log files for analysis – all without any manual interaction. Preliminary internal data reveals that Insights will enable customers to resolve about 30% of issues without opening a support ticket, resulting in fewer support cases for a healthier IT and cloud infrastructure.
One-Click, Non-Disruptive Infrastructure Upgrades
Nutanix Lifecycle Manager (LCM) will deliver seamless, one-click upgrades to the Nutanix software stack, as well as to appliance firmware – without any application or infrastructure downtime. LCM can automatically determine any software and firmware dependencies, intelligently prioritize updates, and orchestrate the entire upgrade process removing the guesswork, and resulting in a more secure and resilient infrastructure. And, as with other Nutanix solutions, LCM will be able to operate anywhere to manage Nutanix environments globally.
Nutanix software also delivers a secure, resilient and easy-to-use private cloud infrastructure solution.
