"The networking giant therefore teased the hypervisor last year as a lightweight tool that offers "only the essential virtualization features" and ideal for "organizations seeking a stable, easy-to-manage hypervisor-without the overhead of third-party platforms or cloud dependencies." At the same time, Cisco added support for its calling applications to run under Nutanix's AHV hypervisor."
"Cisco already offers a hypervisor called the Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) that it uses to deploy networking-centric workloads on some of its appliances. NFVIS-for-UC is a special edition of NFVIS that Cisco has given a separate product ID, distinct pricing, new licensing, "and a slightly different admin user interface.""
Cisco plans to release NFVIS-for-UC, a hypervisor that supports only Cisco calling applications such as Unified Communications Manager. The move responds to VMware's shift under Broadcom toward selling Cloud Foundation instead of low-end vSphere suites, which raises costs for customers who virtualize only telephony workloads. Cisco positioned the hypervisor as a lightweight tool offering only essential virtualization features and added support for calling applications on Nutanix AHV. NFVIS-for-UC is a special edition of NFVIS with a separate product ID, distinct pricing, new licensing, and a slightly different admin interface. Cisco expects availability in Q1 2026 and has published a virtualization guide.
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