Dell and Nutanix have announced that Dell's PowerStore now supports the Nutanix Cloud Platform, available with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) version 7.6.
This collaboration aims to provide enterprises with robust storage options while maintaining the simplicity that first attracted them to the Nutanix platform.
Enhanced Performance and Independent Storage
Supporting the Nutanix Cloud Platform with NCI 7.6, Dell PowerStore brings end-to-end NVMe all-flash performance and allows for separate scaling of compute and storage to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The solution integrates seamlessly into Prism, eliminating the need for new tools or additional training. By combining this with Dell Private Cloud, the platform benefits from automated deployment, full-stack lifecycle management, and Dell's system-level hardware support.
PowerStore is the second Dell storage solution to integrate with the Nutanix Cloud Platform, with PowerFlex being the first. These integrations, along with Dell Private Cloud, provide organizations a comprehensive and validated foundation for leveraging enterprise-grade external storage with Nutanix.
Core Features and Capabilities
PowerStore, known for its all-flash storage capabilities, offers end-to-end NVMe performance, constant data reduction, and extensive data protection features. For Nutanix users, Dell and Nutanix have designed an integration that preserves the familiar operational experience expected by Nutanix teams.
- NVMe All-Flash Performance: Ensures low-latency storage for crucial databases, enterprise applications, and analytics without using compute resources for storage tasks.
- Independent Scalability: Offers the ability to scale PowerStore storage or add Dell PowerEdge compute nodes independently, according to workload requirements. The Dynamic Resiliency Engine supports scaled storage expansion one drive at a time.
- Prism Integration: Allows seamless handling of provisioning, snapshots, clones, and virtual disk expansions directly through the familiar Prism interface.
- Data Reduction Guarantee: Consistent deduplication and compression that guarantees industry-standard 6:1 data reduction, optimizing workload consolidation, and reducing storage costs.
- Cyber Resilience: Policies for protection are managed within Prism with options including asynchronous replication, Metro synchronous replication, and remote backups via Dell PowerProtect Data Manager for long-term retention.
Dell Private Cloud: Completing the Platform
Dell Private Cloud automates Nutanix AHV deployment, lifecycle management, and infrastructure supportThe Dell Private Cloud enhances the Nutanix experience by automating AHV deployment using validated approaches, orchestrating lifecycle management, and supporting the infrastructure with Dell hardware systems. This setup results in simplified appliance-like use on disaggregated infrastructure, allowing the operation of PowerStore or PowerFlex from a single Dell platform.
An evaluation by Omdia highlighted the efficiency of this integration, noting that Dell Private Cloud allows companies to deploy workload-ready clusters in approximately 2.5 hours, reducing steps by 90% compared to traditional methods.
Impact on Customers
The integration of PowerStore with the Nutanix Cloud Platform marks another milestone in the 14-year collaboration between Dell and Nutanix.
This integration diversifies Dell's infrastructure portfolio for Nutanix environments, offering broad options from private cloud setups to disaggregated structures with enhanced data protection. This partnership continues to support infrastructure flexibility and simplification, providing a scalable solution compatible with existing tools and processes.
Availability
Dell's PowerStore for Nutanix Cloud Platform is now available with AOS 7.6.
For organizations looking to modernize existing setups, explore new hypervisor options, or enhance enterprise storage in their Nutanix environments, further information is available on the PowerStore webpage or through Dell and Nutanix representatives.
Dell and Nutanix announced that PowerStore now supports Nutanix Cloud Platform, available with NCI 7.6. Organizations want enterprise storage performance in their Nutanix environments without giving up the simplicity that brought them to the platform. Today, Dell and Nutanix are delivering on that promise.
Performance and independent storage
Dell PowerStore now supports Nutanix Cloud Platform with NCI 7.6, bringing end-to-end NVMe all-flash performance and independent compute and storage scaling to Nutanix AHV hypervisor. PowerStore integrates transparently into Prism — no new tools or training required. Dell Private Cloud completes the platform with automated deployment, full-stack lifecycle management and Dell system-level hardware support.
This makes PowerStore the second Dell storage platform to integrate with Nutanix, following PowerFlex, which became the first external storage supported and integrated with Nutanix Cloud Platform. Together with Dell Private Cloud, which completes the platform with automated lifecycle management and Dell system-level hardware support, organizations now have a fully validated foundation for running Nutanix with enterprise-grade external storage.
Key capabilities
As Dell's flagship all-flash storage platform, PowerStore delivers end-to-end NVMe performance, always-on data reduction and comprehensive data protection. For Nutanix environments, Dell and Nutanix have engineered an integration that preserves the operational experience Nutanix teams expect.
- End-to-end NVMe all-flash performance — Consistent low-latency storage for mission-critical databases, enterprise applications and data-intensive analytics without consuming compute resources for storage data services.
- Independent compute and storage scalability — With Dell Private Cloud, add Dell PowerEdge compute nodes or expand PowerStore capacity on separate tracks based on actual workload demand. PowerStore's Dynamic Resiliency Engine enables granular storage scaling one drive at a time.
- Transparent Prism integration — Provisioning, snapshots, clones and expanding virtual hard disks are handled directly through Prism. Existing Nutanix skills apply from day one.
- 6:1 data reduction guaranteed — Always-on intelligent deduplication and compression deliver an industry-leading 6:1 data reduction guarantee, consolidating more workloads while lowering storage costs.
- Versatile cyber resilience — From asynchronous replication to Metro synchronous with zero RPO and zero RTO, protection policies are managed from Prism. Remote backups via Dell PowerProtect Data Manager provide long-term retention with cloud archival and retention locks.
Dell Private Cloud completes the platform
PowerStore brings enterprise storage to Nutanix. Dell Private Cloud completes the platform, automating AHV deployment with validated blueprints, orchestrating lifecycle management, and backing the full stack with Dell system-level hardware support. The result is appliance-like simplicity on disaggregated infrastructure, with the flexibility to run PowerStore or PowerFlex on a single Dell foundation.
In a recent Technical First Look, Omdia validated the integration, noting that Dell Private Cloud enables organizations to "deploy workload-ready clusters in approximately 2.5 hours, with zero manual effort needed after hardware installation, representing over 90% fewer steps compared to manual deployment methods."
What this means for customers
PowerStore for Nutanix is the latest step in a 14-year partnership that continues to accelerate. With PowerStore support for Nutanix Cloud Platform, Dell now offers the broadest infrastructure portfolio available for Nutanix environments, spanning from private cloud to disaggregated architecture, and extended data protection. This is what infrastructure freedom looks like, the flexibility to choose the right platform for every workload, the simplicity to manage it through the tools your team already knows, and a partnership that keeps building what comes next.
Availability
PowerStore for Nutanix Cloud Platform is available now with AOS 7.6. Whether you're modernising from traditional HCI, evaluating hypervisor alternatives, or looking for enterprise storage performance in your Nutanix environment, visit the PowerStore page or reach out to your Dell or Nutanix representative.
