The Dell Private Cloud, now enhanced by Nutanix, combines operational simplicity with architectural flexibility. This seeks to enable organisations to pair Nutanix AHV with Dell external storage, allowing compute and storage to scale independently, while retaining familiar tools and maintaining investment protection across multi-hypervisor environments.
In today’s evolving IT landscape, private cloud strategy has shifted from simply choosing platforms to designing infrastructures that can adapt to changing requirements. With 52% of IT leaders considering multiple hypervisor options to reduce vendor lock-in, flexible infrastructure is becoming a strategic priority.
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has simplified data centre operations by consolidating resources and streamlining management, moving beyond traditional 3-tier architectures. As workloads diversify, infrastructure requirements continue to evolve. Organisations now need systems that align with workload demands, reuse hardware investments across deployment models, and maintain operational continuity during modernisation.
The Dell Private Cloud offers automation through the Dell Automation Platform, handling Day 0 deployment, Day 1 administration, and Day 2 lifecycle management. This provides a consistent experience across Dell PowerEdge compute and storage.
Customers can now choose the hypervisor that best suits each workload. Support began with VMware, expanded to Red Hat OpenShift, and now includes Nutanix AHV.
The move toward disaggregated infrastructure also carries strategic and economic considerations. Nutanix support allows organisations to scale workloads across multiple hypervisors while optimising budget and existing hardware investments.
Operational Impact:
- Resource Alignment: Pair Nutanix AHV with Dell infrastructure to match compute and storage to workload demands.
- Continuity: Continue using familiar tools like Prism UI without workflow disruption.
- Automation: Dell Automation Platform simplifies deployment and lifecycle management.
- Investment Protection: Scale workloads using existing Dell infrastructure without replacing hardware.
With support for VMware, Red Hat, and Nutanix, Dell Private Cloud aims to provide a foundation for diverse workloads, allowing organisations to deploy suitable platform for each task, align infrastructure investments with demand, and remain adaptable.
The goal is to ensure infrastructure supports business objectives, enabling organisations to respond to changing requirements efficiently.
