As AMD celebrates 50 years as a company, one of our latest innovations for the enterprise, the AMD EPYC™ processors, have gained momentum across datacenter and cloud computing segments. One of the key areas where we see tremendous traction is in hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). Today we are excited to announce a technology partnership with Nutanix, an established leader in hyperconvergence delivering a full software stack that integrates compute, virtualization, storage, networking and security to power applications at scale.
AMD and Nutanix have worked together on optimizing Nutanix’s hyperconverged software, Acropolis OS, on AMD EPYC processors. The teams have been collaborating closely for several months and look forward to bringing Nutanix validated EPYC processor-based servers to the market from leading server OEM manufacturers.
Nutanix has already embarked on the path for enabling choice in hypervisors by enabling support for its own AHV, as well as VMWare ESXi®, and Microsoft® Hyper-V, and with the enablement of these hypervisors on EPYC, AMD and Nutanix will be increasing x86 CPU choice for datacenter customers.
Together AMD and Nutanix are bringing out the true value of the EPYC processor, leveraging its impressive PCIe® connectivity, memory bandwidth and memory capacity. In addition to the TCO savings that customers can get with Nutanix hyperconvergence software, AMD and Nutanix are optimizing on AMD EPYC processor-powered single socket servers to enable even further TCO savings to datacenter customers. We expect the combined EPYC processor + Nutanix solution to shine on several workloads such as VDI, virtualized storage, and containerized applications.
EPYC Processor Hyperconvergence
The AMD EPYC processor is ideally suited for hyperconvergence by providing high performance compute coupled with impressive I/O for native connectivity to storage. EPYC System-on-Chip (SoC) performance scales linearly and uniformly across cores helping minimize performance variation within applications.
Designed from the ground up for a new generation of solutions, AMD EPYC implements a philosophy of choice without restriction. Choose the number of cores and sockets that meet your needs without sacrificing key features like memory and I/O.
Each EPYC SoC can have from 8 to 32 cores with access to incredible amounts of I/O and memory regardless of the number of cores in use, including 128 PCIe® lanes, and support for up to 2 TB of high-speed memory per socket.
The AMD + Nutanix journey has just begun. Stay tuned for updates; fully supported Nutanix solutions on EPYC based OEM servers are planned for summer 2019.
AMD is proudly sponsoring Nutanix.NEXT 2019. We look forward to seeing you at the event where you can learn more on the value that Nutanix and AMD bring to customers deploying HCI.
Raghu Nambiar is the CVP & CTO of Datacenter Ecosystems & Application Engineering at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied. GD-5
