Unlock[ed]

Nutanix[ed] is a blog sharing my experiences. I am hopeful it differentiates from the information overload that seems to be shared as there is so much information online; it can be all-consuming and often brings you no additional value. The goal is to share my experience, successes, and failures to help you navigate your journey, inspire you, and, most importantly, provide takeaways that will be useful in your career.  My last blog was all about the hypervisor. I chose to save the discussion on how to free yourself from a hypervisor, its inherent costs, and lock-in. So, now I will…

What’s in a hypervisor?

I came across a technical whitepaper comparing Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere, the two leading server virtualization platforms back in 2009. At a glance, XenServer offered many enterprise features of VMware vSphere for free. Whereas with VMware vSphere, there was a license purchase required.  Why is this important? Well, in the modern datacenter and especially in the public cloud, the hypervisor is a feature, not a product. So, this discussion is still just as relevant today. Why are we still paying for the hypervisor? I remember my first experience with virtualization. I was evaluating both Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere.…