Implementing and Managing a High-performance Enterprise Infrastructure with Nutanix on IBM Power Systems

Introduction to Nutanix and Hyperconverged computing for cloud native applications and cognitive workloads

This chapter provides a brief history about hyperconverged infrastructures, their reference architecture, and how the solution evolved to provide a cloud native environment for applications.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•1.1, “Hyperconverged infrastructure” on page 2

•1.2, “What is a Hyperconverged infrastructure?” on page 3

•1.3, “Nutanix on IBM Power Systems” on page 4

•1.4, “IBM Power Systems architecture for Nutanix” on ...