Clients were able to deploy RHEL and OpenShift with Hyper V or with VMware ESXi or an open source KVM variant, and now clients have the option to work with Nutanix AHV. The other key takeaway from the briefing is that both Red Hat and Nutanix want their customers to have options. Customers are demanding better interoperability and support from their cloud technology providers and need their deployments to be certified by vendors that co-exist in their tech stack. Organizations are increasingly counting on flexibility and freedom of choice to build, run, and manage applications at scale. The Red Hat team were very keen for me to understand this announcement is being driven by burgeoning client demand, with Pacheco describing this demand as a “growing crescendo,” as hybrid cloud strategies are evolving faster than ever across every industry. Our briefing started with the topic of why Red Hat has worked with Nutanix. Red Hat Partners with Nutanix To Put Squeeze on VMwareĪnalyst Take: I had the opportunity to get briefed by Ron Pacheco, Director Product Management at Red Hat earlier this week to discuss the announcement. The News: Red Hat is collaborating with Nutanix to make OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux a fully supported solution on the Nutanix native virtualization platform, AHV.