CTO waiting for major OEMs to get on board, but when/if that happens it'll be game on ... perhaps for AINutanix is contemplating the day when it ports some of its wares to the Arm CPU architecture, but hasn't yet put the job on its to-do list and doesn't think its hypervisor needs to make the jump.
Bhattacharyya said an Arm version will be contingent on whether major hardware vendors adopt the architecture"as a first-class platform." He's more certain that Nutanix's containerized services will one day be ported to Arm because the architecture is most often used to power the cloud-native applications on which the company is making huge bets.. An Arm port of the AOS storage service that Nutanix has made its first hypervisor-free product is"absolutely doable in the long term," he added.
Bhattacharyya also noted that the Arm architecture needs attention due to Nvidia's use of it in the compute cores present in its GPUs. The presence of Arm cores in system-on-chips like Apple's homebrew silicon that put CPU, GPU, NPU, and memory on the same die, and enjoy performance improvements as bandwidth constraints that come with PCI aren't a factor, also have his attention.