Dell Private Cloud has extended support for Nutanix with external storage flexibility in line with workload diversification and businesses demanding greater flexibility.

With its latest Nutanix tie-up, Dell promises new ways to match infrastructure to shifting work demands while maintaining operational consistency.

With 52% of IT teams now considering multiple hypervisor options in a bid to avoid vendor lock-in, according to Gartner research, adopting flexible infrastructure has become an important business need in private cloud strategy.

Some of its added benefits include matching resources to requirements by pairing Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) with Dell infrastructure to align compute and storage to specific needs, and the opportunity to maintain operational continuity so teams continue using familiar tools like Prism UI without workflow disruption.

Other features include simplification through automation as Dell Automation Platform handles Day 0–2 deployment and lifecycle management, with solution-level support across automation, compute, storage, and hypervisor layers. Teams are also promised to protect their investments by reusing existing Dell infrastructure to scale workloads as needed without replacing hardware.

“With support for VMware, Red Hat, and now Nutanix, Dell Private Cloud delivers a consistent foundation across diverse workload requirements,” Caitlin Gordon, VP of product management for private cloud and AI solutions for Dell Technologies, said in a company blog.

“Organizations can deploy the right platform for each workload without multiplying management complexity, match infrastructure investments to actual demand, and adapt as business priorities shift.”

The workload diversification has made choice more important as businesses demand greater flexibility; the industry is redefining what infrastructure can deliver. This spurred Dell to allow organizations to pair Nutanix AHV with Dell external storage, scaling compute and storage independently while maintaining familiar tools, automated lifecycle management, and investment protection across multi-hypervisor environments.

Dell first announced its Nutanix partnership in September last year, powering up its private cloud push with updates to cloud, storage, and cybersecurity platform lines and an expansion of platform availability with Nutanix.

That team-up focused on general availability of Dell’s Private Cloud platform, which was initially unveiled in early 2025. The platform was designed as a disaggregated way to support private clouds that run cloud software from vendors like Broadcom, Nutanix, and Red Hat on Dell’s disaggregated infrastructure.

Varun Chhabra, SVP of product marketing at Dell Technologies, explained at the time that the platform was built on the vendor’s Automation Platform to provide enterprises with more optionality.

“What the Dell Private Cloud does is provide investment protection through its open infrastructure approach that allows organizations to deploy a specific private cloud operating system or hypervisor solution as they choose and then later to be able to actually re-image the hardware and deploy a completely different hypervisor solution, if they so choose to,” Chhabra said. "To be able to actually re-image the hardware and deploy a completely different hypervisor solution, if they so choose to, but to be able to do that with the existing hardware and the existing capabilities for automation platform that they have acquired, and all they need to do is bring their own license for a new hypervisor, or a cloud solution, or private cloud solution,” Chhabra said.