AMD and Nutanix have jointly developed virtualization/HCI solutions since 2019, working with major OEMs including Dell, HP and Lenovo, systems integrators and other resellers and partners (see Figure 1). You can learn more about AMD-Nutanix solutions here.
Figure 1, Delivering Integrated Nutanix Solutions
AMD EPYC Processors
The EPYC 9004 family of high performance processors provide up to 128 cores per processor to help meet the demands of a wide range of workloads and use cases. High density core counts allow you to reduce the number of servers you need by as much as a five to one ratio when looking at retiring older, inefficient servers and replacing with a new one. Systems based on AMD processors can also be more energy efficient than many competitive processor based systems. For example, running 2000 VMs on 11 2P AMD EPYC 9654 processor-powered servers will use up to 29% less power annually than the 17 2P Intel® Xeon™ Platinum 8490H processor-based servers required to deliver the same performance, while helping reduce CAPEX up to 46%[i] (see Figure 2).
source: AMD
Figure 2, AMD EPYC CPU Data Center Savings, Fewer Servers, Less Power, Lead to Lower Emissions
Nutanix Solutions: Virtualization and HCI
Nutanix offers software solutions to help customers virtualize their data centers efficiently. Nutanix virtualization and HCI allows you to consolidate your infrastructure - storage, networking, and processors - into one easy-to-manage system. Nutanix software gives your IT team the agility to quickly and easily consolidate systems and adopt new digital innovation strategies, including AI solutions.
Nutanix customers have the option to implement hybrid multi-cloud solutions or adopt an entirely on-cloud strategy. Nutanix gives IT departments the flexibility to extend workloads to public clouds, allowing hybrid cloud operators to burst or migrate applications across clouds, without rearchitecting or retooling for each environment.
AMD-Nutanix Solutions Fuel Demanding Applications
Together, Nutanix servers, powered by AMD EPYC processors support the most demanding applications including:
- Business-critical and enterprise latency-sensitive applications - high core counts, maximum memory and GPU
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – rich media and GPU support, compute-density and resources
- Files, objects, unstructured data – cheap and deep storage, long-term storage capacity
- Server virtualization, private cloud – compute/storage density, high core counts, all NVMe (nonvolatile memory express)
- IT apps, databases – fast storage for hot data, storage capacity, CPU performance
- Big Data/Analytics and AI/ML – compute memory performance, large low latency storage, dense compute power, large memory and GPU support
- ROBO/Edge entry level – cost effective, small form factor, simple to manage, low use virtual machines (VMs) and GPU support
Nutanix-AMD solutions can also be optimized for many other use cases including unified communications, disaster recovery and storage services. AMD and Nutanix can also help improve application performance, offer protection against cyber-attacks, provide simple migration and management, support scalability and help you save on power, cooling and space to meet your sustainability goals.
AMD-Nutanix and AI
As businesses of all sizes adopt compute intensive AI applications, IT leaders can count on AMD – Nutanix to help optimize their performance while also making these new solutions affordable. With high performance processing power and by consolidating infrastructure, AMD-Nutanix HCI and virtualization solutions help lower software licensing costs and the need for GPUs. By consolidating infrastructure, you can reduce your data center footprint, giving you room to support new AI solutions without adding new servers.
Learn more about how AMD and Nutanix can help you adopt new AI solutions. See our AI-in-a-box Build Guide.
- [i] SP5TCO-036: As of 01/18/2023 based on AMD Internal analysis using the AMD EPYC™ Server Virtualization & Greenhouse Gas Emission TCO Estimation Tool - version 12.10 estimating the cost and quantity of 2P AMD 96 core EPYC™ 9654 powered server versus 2P Intel® Xeon® 60 core Platinum 8490H based server solutions required to deliver 2000 total virtual machines (VM), requiring 1 core and 8GB of memory per VM for a 3-year period. This includes VMware software license cost of $6,558.32 per socket + one additional software for every 32 CPU core increment in that socket.
Environmental impact estimates made leveraging this data, using the Country / Region specific electricity factors from the '2020 Grid Electricity Emissions Factors v1.4 – September 2020', and the United States Environmental Protection Agency 'Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator'.
This scenario contains many assumptions and estimates and, while based on AMD internal research and best approximations, should be considered an example for information purposes only, and not used as a basis for decision making over actual testing. For additional details, see https://www.amd.com/en/claims/epyc4#SP5TCO-036.