HCI Insights

Sign in Subscribe

Latest — 17 Jul 2026

Cisco Unified Edge with Nutanix - Official Release!

In the unofficial Part 1 of the "Edge" series, I wrote about Cisco's UCS X-Series Direct for small/medium edge sites. In Part 2 I wrote about expanding beyond a single chassis with multi-chassis X-Series Direct support for large to extra large edge

More issues

Bigger Edge Workloads: Multi-Chassis X-Direct with Nutanix

In my last post, we talked about the UCS X-Series and the development / launch of the X-Direct / Fabric Interconnect Modules (FIM / integrated FIs). In that post, I purposefully left information out which answers a question often asked by customers: "What if I need to expand beyond 8

Edge Workloads: Cisco X-Direct with Nutanix

It's been a while since I wrote anything. Not for a lack of anything happening, quite the opposite. There's too much happening between Cisco and Nutanix that finding the energy to sit down and think through a meaningful post after long days is proving difficult. I

Cisco at Nutanix .NEXT 2026

Now that the dust is settling from an amazing Nutanix .NEXT conference, it's worth recapping Cisco's presence. This year's conference felt ... different. It really felt like Cisco had a strong presence in Chicago this year (2026) and had a several exciting and relevant announcements

AI Promises of Fixing the World

The ability to reuse and repurpose existing Cisco UCS hardware with Nutanix is becoming more relevant than ever as customers navigate memory price increases and long lead times.

Foundation Central Appliance

Boy oh boy – it has been a busy start to the year which is a big reason for the lack of posts. There’s so much to talk about still from the end of 2025 and already into 2026 so let’s get into it. Hopefully you’ve seen the

FlashStack with Nutanix - Part 3: WE'RE LIVE!

That's right folks! FlashStack with Nutanix is live! There's so much to break down even after the previous two posts (Part 1 / Part 2). You might say "But I saw posts about this being live last month!" And ya - technically, perhaps, that is somewhat

FlashStack with Nutanix - Part 2

So you decided to come back for Part 2 - good on you. Where was I? Ah yes - the challenges customers are facing. How awesome would it be if a partnership across three companies provided a flexible solution that allowed customers to do what they want, when they want, on their

FlashStack with Nutanix - Part 1

Let me set the stage: The day is May 7th, 2025 (maybe it was the 8th, my memory is foggy). Rajiv Ramaswami (Nutanix CEO) is on stage at the Nutanix .NEXT conference where he announces the NCI Compute program and what Nutanix is coming to market with. Then, on the

Cisco Unified Edge with Nutanix

Cisco launches a new server platform called Cisco Unified Edge. One of the big questions Cisco gets is what are the plans for Nutanix support? This post has some information.