RHEL Guest on Nutanix AHV - Deprecated
Hi,
Anyone would know if RHEL is Certified or supported to run on Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) which also use KVM.
According to Nutanix, they support RHEL on AHV but im looking for an official statement from Red Hat that they are certified to run on Nutanix AHV.
https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=AMF-Guide-AOS-v50:vmm-vm-driver-types-r.html
Thanks,
Paul
Responses
No, Nutanix is not a certified hypervisor.
The list of certified hypervisors is at: https://access.redhat.com/certified-hypervisors
Red Hat
Newbie
15 points
Hey Paul,
You can refer this article : Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Newbie
7 points
redhat should rethink the policy because AHV is rising. one of my customers abandons redhat because of this.
Please do express your concerns to Nutanix. We are more than happy to work with them via our certified hardware program. We have a well-documented certification submission process and an entire team dedicated solely to exactly this.
However the onus is on the vendor to certify their platform, not on Red Hat to proactively pursue every possible vendor whose hardware/hypervisor that RHEL could be installed on, which would be an unrealistic workload for us to handle.
Our organization is brand new to the RHEL world - at least from a Platform offering perspective. With that said, we've been using Nutanix AHV for some time now. So, if we can help (in any beneficial way) to doing just that, I'd be happy to!
Welcome aboard :)
The best we can suggest is for Nutanix customers to ask Nutanix to certify their hypervisor with us.
Whilst we can't speak for another business, surely if anyone had all their customers beating down the doors to get their hardware platform to an "officially supported" state, they would take action on that customer demand and open up a partnership with Red Hat via our certification program.
This is now out of date. Nutanix is now an officially supported third-part platform as of yesterday, Oct 5, 2021. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/certified-hypervisors
Active Contributor
239 points
It is even better Nutanix is now an strategic partner Red Hat