Dell Private Cloud Adds Nutanix AHV Support, Completing Multi-Hypervisor Lineup
Dell has added Nutanix AHV to its Dell Private Cloud offering, giving enterprises a third hypervisor option alongside VMware and Red Hat OpenShift, with storage backed by Dell PowerFlex and PowerStore planned for later this year.
Dell Technologies announced on February 10, 2026 that Nutanix AHV is now a supported hypervisor within Dell Private Cloud, joining VMware and Red Hat OpenShift as managed options. The addition comes as enterprise IT teams increasingly evaluate multi-hypervisor strategies in the wake of Broadcom\'s acquisition of VMware and the licensing restructuring that followed. Dell cited internal research showing that 52 percent of IT leaders are actively considering multi-hypervisor strategies to reduce vendor lock-in.
Deployment Options and Storage
Organizations can today deploy Nutanix AHV with Dell PowerFlex as the backing storage layer, decoupling compute and storage scaling in a disaggregated architecture. This means organizations can independently scale Nutanix nodes and PowerFlex storage arrays rather than being constrained to grow both in lockstep as is typical with traditional hyperconverged infrastructure.
Support for Dell PowerStore as a storage backend for the Nutanix AHV configuration is planned for later in 2026. PowerStore targets workloads with higher IOPS demands and richer data services requirements, broadening the performance envelope available to Nutanix-based deployments under Dell Private Cloud.
Operational Consistency Across Hypervisors
Dell positions the multi-hypervisor capability not merely as a procurement option but as an operational architecture. The Dell Private Cloud management layer provides automated lifecycle management — including firmware updates, health monitoring, and support workflows — across VMware, Red Hat, and Nutanix nodes from a single control plane. The goal is to allow organizations to choose the right hypervisor for each workload category without multiplying the number of management tools and operational processes required.
For enterprises that standardized on Nutanix AHV either before or after the Broadcom changes, the integration means they can pair familiar Nutanix compute with Dell external storage and benefit from Dell\'s support structure without migrating to a different hypervisor stack.
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