Nutanix Calm

Nutanix Services will enable you to provision and consume Nutanix infrastructure on demand as a native extension of the enterprise datacenter, delivering a turnkey cloud service built from the same infrastructure stack, with the same tooling and SLAs as the core Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. The initial service Nutanix will roll-out represents huge simplification for DR planning and implementations. Xi will discover application inter-relationships, and automate setting up and managing cloud-based DR for those applications using snapshots and remote replication. It will enable you to be running production VMs on VMware, HyperV or Azure, but your recovery cloud hypervisor could be different. The goal of Xi DR services is to simplify DR as a feature of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS, with the alterative being incurring additional management and complex configurations.

Nutanix Calm is what I consider the most interesting announcement. Calm abstracts application environments from the underlying infrastructure, understands the options forrunning that application on Nutanix or in one of the public clouds, and exposes the costs for running a specific application so you can make an informed placement decision. Leveraging Kubernetes to containerize and enable portability, Calm has one powerful goal: to simplify the ability to deploy a Hybrid Cloud so you can move workloads to where and when they are best suited, in one-click. Calm will include a marketplace of applications including Hadoop, Splunk, SQL, your custom internally developed application blueprints, etc., and will automate the setup of these applications using the same process and parameters whether you are running on-premises, on AHV, or in the Google, AWS or Azure clouds. The automation handles the optimization for the target environment. Requestors can order from the marketplace to have the application automatically provisioned.