Intel® Select Solutions-Nutanix Cloud Platform

Learn how Intel® Select Solutions for Nutanix Cloud Platform can help you modernize your IT infrastructure.

Nutanix delivers a comprehensive hybrid/multicloud platform that bridges the gap between traditional on-premises infrastructure and public cloud services. Nutanix uses hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a foundation and can help enterprises reduce IT complexity, make better use of their volumes of data and speed time to value. Enterprises can use easy-to-manage, high-performing HCI to focus on customer and business needs and run business-critical workloads.

Intel® Select Solutions for Nutanix Cloud Platform provide a turnkey solution that can help enhance storage performance and application responsiveness as well as offer a faster, simpler path to infrastructure modernization and hybrid/multicloud environments. These solutions enable efficient use of infrastructure and deliver the necessary performance for demanding, latency-sensitive workloads in the data center. The solutions combine a Nutanix software stack with hardware built on 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® Optane™ technology, Intel® Ethernet Network Adapters, and other Intel® technologies. Additionally, they are pre-configured and verified to help enterprises quickly modernize infrastructure to support multiple complex workloads simultaneously. Intel® Select Solutions for Nutanix Cloud Platform help improve both capital expenditure and operating expense efficiency by offering high-performing, scalable HCI solutions; the ability to consolidate multiple workloads; and the flexibility to simplify deployment and management.

Solution benefits include:

• High-performance HCI can handle today’s data-intensive workloads like virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI), database transactions and data warehousing.
• Simplified cloud operations make app development, deployment and maintenance consistent across public clouds, private clouds and the edge.
• Scalable Intel® architecture-based solutions let enterprises add compute and storage resources as needed.
• Co-engineered and qualified HCI hardware/software and a unified management plane takes the guesswork out of moving to hybrid/multicloud.

In benchmarking tests running Nutanix X-Ray, Intel® Select Solutions for Nutanix Cloud Platform Base design achieved up to 1,033,209 IOPS (random read, X-Ray test). HammerDB testing on seven instances of Microsoft SQL Server resulted in 2,976,625 new orders per minute (NOPM). This compared with 1,559,207 NOPM on the previous-generation platform, an improvement of 91%. Average I/O latency measured on the Nutanix storage cluster controller during the test on the seven instances of SQL improved from 5.3 to 4.1 ms gen-over-gen, an average of 29%. These results demonstrate that Intel® Select Solutions for Nutanix Cloud Platform running on the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can support a heavy online transaction processing (OLTP) workload and simultaneously have compute, storage and memory, and networking resources available to support other workloads running on the cluster.