The virtualization landscape is evolving rapidly. With VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom, the company’s focus has shifted towards large enterprise accounts, leaving small and medium-sized businesses less prioritized. As a result, new solutions are emerging to fill the gap.

Proxmox is gaining traction among smaller players with its open-source virtualization capabilities, while Nutanix is offering a fully managed hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution that delivers not just virtualization but a cloud-like experience in a private environment. Additionally, OpenStack and OpenNebula are viable options—OpenStack is particularly suited for service providers, while OpenNebula focuses on edge computing.

Among these, Nutanix stands out due to its ability to offer both hardware and software, providing a single point of support for customers. At Diamatix, we believe this is a key advantage over other solutions. Nutanix eliminates the common challenges of coordinating between hardware and software manufacturers, allowing us to deliver a cloud-like service in a private environment that rivals public cloud offerings. Nutanix enables organizations to succeed in today’s digital landscape with a consolidated software-defined platform that supports modern and legacy apps across data centers, clouds, and the edge—all while maintaining control.

The VMware Situation

VMware’s recent acquisition has led to several changes, including:

  • Major adjustments in pricing, packaging, support, and product offerings.
  • Premium support is now only available with the higher-priced VMware Cloud Foundation.
  • On the hypervisor front, there are few remaining enterprise options, as Microsoft’s Hyper-V is nearing end-of-life, and smaller players like Proxmox lack compelling enterprise features and support.

Why Nutanix?

Nutanix offers a way to reduce risk by diversifying from VMware, transitioning fully, or leveraging the cloud more effectively. Whether you choose one path or a combination of these, Nutanix can help you:

  • Build and run new and modern workloads on a more flexible, hyperconverged infrastructure—whether on-premises, in public clouds, managed clouds, or at the edge.
  • Transition existing VMware infrastructure to the Nutanix Cloud Platform, which includes an integrated, enterprise-grade hypervisor.

Moreover, Broadcom is not known for its strong customer support, whereas Nutanix’s commitment to customer success is reflected in its seven-year average NPS score of 90+.

How Nutanix Supports Existing VMware Investments

Many enterprise and large commercial VMware customers have significant investments in existing SAN infrastructure that they can’t simply abandon. Nutanix helps by:

  1. Modernizing infrastructure with a server-based, software-defined approach, allowing businesses to control their VMware costs.
  2. Building a scalable platform for modern apps and existing app growth with an integrated, enterprise-grade hypervisor.
  3. Leveraging public and managed clouds without requiring extensive refactoring or becoming locked into a specific cloud provider.