Nutanix announced the general availability of its support for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. With this new release, Nutanix becomes a converged infrastructure provider with native support for three hypervisors: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM. This hypervisor-agnostic approach delivers a common data fabric to power hybrid enterprise datacenters running different workloads across multiple virtualization technologies. Nutanix's software-driven architecture delivers high-performance enterprise storage services and rich data analytics that run and scale independent of the virtualization layer.

It eliminates the cost and complexity of traditional storage technologies, such as SAN and NAS-based arrays, by converging compute and storage resources into a single, easy-to-deploy appliance. With support for widely deployed Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 storage and virtualization protocols, Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform provides the broadest range of hypervisor platforms and compatibility for thousands of enterprise workloads, including popular services such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange. Additionally, this new release provides a high-performance and storage efficient infrastructure solution for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp running on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. In support of this capability, Nutanix has published a new reference architecture to assist customers deploying Citrix XenDesktop and Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V solutions on the company's Virtual Computing Platform.

Pricing and availability: Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V is available immediately at no cost to new customers and to existing customers with a valid Nutanix support agreement.