Multiple integrations between Nutanix infrastructure and ServiceNow

Nutanix partnered with ServiceNow to announce new automation capabilities for private clouds. Companies can now get direct notifications of key events related to the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure in ServiceNow. The latter’s integration with ServiceNow’s IT operations management solution will also allow automatic discovery of Nutanix HCI environments. It also provides access to the self-service features provided by Nutanix to automate critical workloads.

Nutanix Calm plugin and automatic visualization of the environment

These statements were issued at the next European meeting of hyper-converged experts, and they promised that the IT team will spend less time to resolve the incident. Integration with ServiceNow can automatically visualize the Nutanix private cloud environment through the ServiceNow ITOM discovery function. In addition, the X-Play automation engine of Prism Pro management software has been supplemented by a new command that uses ServiceNow’s ITSM service to notify IT managers of events and alarms in their private cloud environment. . These automated functions complement the introduction of Nutanix Calm ServiceNow Store as a plug-in. Calm is a multi-cloud application management framework that can realize automation, orchestration and life cycle management. Using this plug-in, ServiceNow users can quickly resize, manage and extend applications through the blueprints provided by the framework, which can be accessed through the ServiceNow Service Catalog.

HPE GreenLake for Nutanix and HPE ProLiant DX

Nutanix also used the opportunity of the meeting to announce the release of the offer resulting from the announcement of the merger with HPE this spring. After a tense period, HPE acquired Nutanix’s direct competitor Simplivity, and the two companies cast a shadow over the Dell-VMware duo. This strategy is reflected in the general strategy for HPE GreenLake and HPE ProLiant DX solutions announced today for Nutanix.

HPE GreenLake for Nutanix is ​​based on HPE ProLiant DX equipment (based on HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo servers), and is embedded with enterprise cloud OS and Nutanix AHV hypervisor. This allows companies to benefit from a private cloud fully managed by HPE in an as-a-service model. Dell also offers VxRail a consumer model for hybrid cloud.