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Publication Date: 2025-05-28 07:00:00
In the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and the subsequent licensing changes, many organizations are exploring alternative virtualization platforms. Nutanix has emerged as a viable option, offering robust solutions for modern IT infrastructures. To support this transition, Flexera has added a new capability to its IT Asset Management platform: the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) VM inventory collector.
Nutanix Prism is the management interface for Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). It provides a single pane of glass to manage virtual machines, storage, networking and clusters. Nutanix Prism simplifies IT operations with features like performance monitoring, capacity planning and automation—all in a user-friendly dashboard.
Nutanix AHV is Nutanix’s native hypervisor, built into its platform and based on open-source KVM. It’s tightly integrated with Nutanix Prism, allowing seamless VM lifecycle management, high availability and security.
Flexera’s new Nutanix AHV inventory collector lets Nutanix users find and track the relationships between VMs and hosts on Nutanix servers managed by Nutanix Prism.
Navigating the post-VMware landscape
Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 led to significant shifts in VMware’s licensing model. The company changed from perpetual licenses to subscription-only models. It also increased the minimum core purchase requirement from 16 to 72 cores. Later, the company started sending…
