Enabling simple workflow management across hybrid and multicloud environments is high on the wish list of organizations making a fast transition to the cloud.

“Customers are saying, ‘Hey, that’s great that we have all of these multiple tools, but I want consistency. If I’m managing some workload apps in a different way on-prem, I want to maintain that also in the public cloud,’” said Madhukar Kumar (pictured), vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix Inc.

Kumar spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed managing hybrid cloud with Nutanix Clusters on AWS. (* Disclosure below.)

Nutanix brings the benefits of being agnostic

Answering customer’s wishes for a simpler, faster way to hybrid operations, hyperconverged infrastructure leader Nutanix has partnered with Amazon Web Services Inc. to create Nutanix Clusters on AWS. The solution enables customers to run an entire Nutanix cluster with all of its products on AWS bare metal, according to Kumar.

Nutanix started with hyperconverged infrastructure, virtualizing the data center stack and making storage, network and compute completely software-defined. Now, the same agnostic principle of “write once, run anywhere” is being applied to cloud.

“Just as you could take and run your entire Nutanix platform and create virtual machines and containers on an HPE or Dell box, you can now take that and also run it on a public cloud,” Kumar stated. “Because we are agnostic, you can run it on the hardware of your choice or an environment of your choice.”

More importantly, the same toolset can be used to manage both the data center and other environments, according to Kumar. “In this case it’s AWS, but if you decide to run it in any other environment it would be the same construct, the same automation scripts,” he said.

Hibernate feature sends clusters to sleep

Keeping the customer in control of their infrastructure is one benefit of Nutanix Clusters on AWS. Others include seamless app mobility, unified management through a single pane of glass, simple and speedy disaster recovery, and decreased costs thanks to features such as “hibernate” that shuts down clusters when they’re not being used.

“One of the things that we did right as part of Clusters is a hibernate feature,” Kumar stated.

Just like on a laptop, when clusters are not being used, “you close the screen, you hit the hibernate button, and it takes the entire state of your cluster and saves it on an [AWS] S3 bucket,” Kumar said.

Hit the resume button, and the cluster reignites. “That’s one of the things that will excite a lot of IT folks like me,” he concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Nutanix Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Nutanix nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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