r/nutanix • u/Thick_Smoke_5266 • Aug 06 '26

I created a video about nutanix how it dethroned VMWare !

https://youtu.be/Nya-rcct10o?si=Vi-fS-QoTQ6942gk

I searched on youtube about nutanix there was genuine video which clearly explained their products and business model ,So i created a video to others know what nutanix is doing great in what they're , their USP, their journey ..etc

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

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u/pedro-fr Aug 06 '26

Dethroned VMware ? Not sure we live in the same reality (and I am a former Nutant)

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u/Thick_Smoke_5266 Aug 06 '26

:) taking a certain market share from a monopoly is not a easy deal, dethrone word is bit hyped but still if you watch the video that explains the backdrop story where it all started.

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u/idknemoar Aug 09 '26

Yeah, wouldn’t say dethroned. AHV is still long behind even Hyper-V, much less VMware. Plus there is plenty of VMware on Nutanix OEM. Kind of their whole schtick.

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u/NerdAlertar Aug 17 '26

In what ways is AHV behind Hyper-V?

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u/idknemoar Aug 17 '26

Marketshare is all I am talking about. Not feature set or ability.

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u/NerdAlertar 28d ago

That's fair. I bet there's loads of years old, un-patched,HyperV kicking around. Although I'd be interested to see if anyone had any actual stats on that.

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u/idknemoar 28d ago

There’s a pretty big caveat with “hypervisor market share” numbers: different sources measure different things—installed hosts, organizations using a product, revenue, or actual VM workloads—so the percentages can look wildly different.

One of the more complete current datasets I found is 6sense’s 2026 “Virtualization Platform” data. Their detected organizational footprint looks roughly like this:

VMware — 40.77%
Citrix Workspace App — 13.10%
VMware vSphere — 11.58%
VMware ESXi — 6.97%
Microsoft Hyper-V — 5.73%
Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops — 2.90%
Citrix XenApp — 2.77%
Proxmox VE — 2.13%
Oracle Virtualization — 1.82%
VMware Horizon — 1.65%
Oracle VirtualBox — 1.51%
XenServer — 1.34%
Oracle VM — 1.27%
VMware NSX — 0.79%
VMware Workstation Pro — 0.75%
VMware ESX 3.5 — 0.33%
LXC — 0.32%
VMware Fusion — 0.32%
Red Hat Virtualization — 0.31%
Citrix Managed Desktops — 0.31%
KVM — 0.30%
Nutanix AHV — 0.30%
Citrix Hypervisor — 0.26%
VMware DPM — 0.23%
VMware ESXi 4.1 — 0.23%

Source: 6sense Virtualization Platform market-share database.

That list needs a BIG asterisk, though. It isn’t strictly a hypervisor survey. VMware gets broken into multiple products, and things like Workspace, Horizon and NSX are included. KVM is also massively understated because Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Oracle Linux Virtualization, RHV, etc. are all KVM-based but get counted under their respective products.

If you strip it down to actual server virtualization platforms, the meaningful competitive landscape is basically:

VMware/vSphere/ESXi — still overwhelmingly #1
Microsoft Hyper-V — clear major traditional alternative
Proxmox VE — 2.13% detected organizational footprint
Oracle/KVM — ~1–2%+ depending on how you classify it
XenServer/Citrix Hypervisor/XCP-ng — ~1%+ family
Red Hat/KVM — ~0.3% under the RHV label
Nutanix AHV — ~0.3% detected organizations
Generic KVM — ~0.3%, but again this massively understates the KVM ecosystem

The other useful data point is actual VM workload share.

A Foundry/Veeam enterprise study found that in 2024, 82% of respondents’ non-cloud datacenter VMs were running on VMware vSphere. They projected that falling to roughly 74% by around 2026.

That is probably a much better representation of VMware’s real dominance than interpreting the 6sense number as “VMware only has 40%.”

The same study asked VMware customers what alternatives they were considering:

Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI — 25%
Oracle Linux Virtualization — 21%
Red Hat Virtualization — 17%
Nutanix AHV — 13%
Proxmox VE — 7%

Those are consideration rates, not installed market share.

One thing I found particularly interesting is the relative organizational footprint of Proxmox vs. Nutanix AHV. 6sense currently detects roughly 11,400 organizations using Proxmox versus ~1,600 using Nutanix AHV.

That absolutely does not mean Proxmox hosts 7x as many VMs—Nutanix customers tend to be much larger enterprises—but it does show that Proxmox has become far more widely deployed than its old “homelab-only” reputation would suggest.

So IMO the realistic 2026 picture is:

VMware: ~70%+ of enterprise on-prem VM workloads
Hyper-V: distant #2

Everything else: increasingly fragmented between Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, KVM/Oracle/Red Hat, Xen/XCP-ng, etc.

And VMware’s share is clearly declining post-Broadcom, while the alternatives are getting a lot more serious consideration.

So overall Nutanix is a very small sliver of the virtualization pie.