Category Archive: NPX

Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture v3

The third version of Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture, formerly known as Nutanix Private Cloud Reference Architecture has been released. The major addition compared to previous versions is the inclusion of the following Nutanix components: Era Karbon Files Objects Mine Flow Clusters This document follows the same structure as the previous versions meaning it’s describing …

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Nutanix Multi Site Private Cloud Architecture

As a follow up to the Nutanix Private Cloud Reference Architecture version release in March 2020 the Multi-Site Private Cloud Architecture document has been released. This document follows the same structure as the previous version meaning it’s describing what approach (methodology) to use,  what to consider/ take into account and what decisions to include when …

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Meet NPX 022 – Artur Krzywdzinski

Name: Artur Krzywdzinski NPX Number: 022 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: www.vmwaremine.com Twitter: Artur Krzywdzinski Virtualisation background: Nutanix AHV, VMware, Microsoft (Azure and Hyper-V), AWS. Storage Background: – Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Nutanix Future of HCI and other emerging technologies: Nutanix HCI is excellent building block for on-prem datacenters and hybrid cloud solutions. Scalability, predictibility, security, performance , …

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Nutanix Private Cloud Reference Architecture

Updated 2020-10-15: Nutanix Multi-Site Private Cloud Architecture document has been released. ——————————————————————————————————————- Happy to announce that the long awaited Nutanix Private Cloud Reference Architecture has been released. This is a document describing what approach (methodology) to use,  what to consider/ take into account and what decisions to include when designing a private cloud solution based …

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Meet NPX 021 – Michael Shin

Name: Michael Shin NPX Number: 021 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL:  Twitter: MshinNutanix Virtualisation background:  – VMWare : I started using VMware since 2010 on ESXi 4.0, when I was first involved in building small hosted VMware cluster for a managed service company. Since then, been working on primarily on Server Virtualization on design / implementation and …

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Meet NPX 020 – Dan Alexandru Apostu

Name: Dan-Alexandru Apostu NPX Number: 020 Employer: Global Nutanix Customer Blog URL:  Twitter: Virtualisation background: I’ve started working with virtualization technologies in 2005 with VMware Workstation preparing for my university graduation exam. In 2010 I passed VCP3 and as I was working on increasingly complex projects I prepared for and passed the VMware advanced exams for version …

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Meet NPX 019 – Jason Yeo

Name: Jason Yeo NPX Number:019 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: vchips.imutroom.com Twitter: @jasonyzs88 Virtualisation background: VMware practitioner since 2010 (VCP4). Became an EUC specialist and attained VMware VCDX#180 in 2014. Storage Background:Was an enterprise SAN admin circa 2003, handling several HP XP storage with Brocade and McData fabrics Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Designing and Deploying Nutanix since 2015 Future …

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Meet NPX 018 – Fouad EL Akkad

Name: Fouad EL Akkad NPX Number: 18 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: www.vRoomBlog.com Twitter: @vRoomblog Virtualisation background: I was working as the main engineer for a large virtualized organization (several thousand VMs) and started from the version of VMware vSphere 4.0 to 6.5, since September 2017 I join Nutanix as Senior System Engineer for Morocco. Storage Background: As the main …

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Meet NPX 012 – Tim Buckholz

Name: Tim Buckholz NPX Number:012 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: tbuckholz.wordpress.com Twitter: @tbuckholz Virtualisation background: I first got into virtualization back in the mid 2000s, working with GSX, workstation, and ESX 2 as my company virtualized a large chunk of our existing environment. Over the years I’ve worked with most versions of esx and hyper-v, a fair amount …

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Meet NPX 015 – Bruno Sousa

Name: Bruno Sousa NPX Number:015 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @bsousapt Virtualisation background: My very first exposure to an “enterprise ready” virtualization was with ESX 3.5 on HP servers to virtualize nothing else then…Oracle 8 and Oracle 9 workloads for a medical research center in Porto (my hometown) , Portugal. After this experience I had the …

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Meet NPX 016 – Crescenzo Oliviero

Name: Crescenzo Oliviero NPX Number:016 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @CrexOliviero Virtualisation background: started to play with VMware in 2008 for backing it up through proxies… then to architect sizing. I started also playing with Solaris zones in late 2003 that could be considered a virtualisation approach or latest docker ancestor. Storage Background:use to work as …

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Meet NPX 017 – David Quinney

Name: David Quinney NPX Number:017 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: www.cloudypolitics.com Twitter: @quinney_david Virtualisation background: I started out with with Microsoft virtualization before VMware, first with Virtual Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003 and then Hyper-V around 2009 when I was working for a large managed service provider based in New Zealand. I then switched to the …

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Meet NPX 014 – Derek Seaman

Name: Derek Seaman NPX Number:014 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: derekseaman.com Twitter: @vDerekS Virtualisation background: I’ve been working with VMware since early 2009, when I was working at Lockheed Martin on a large Government project. A few years later I moved to Qualcomm, where I earned my VMware Certified Design Expert – Datacenter Virtualization (VCDX-DCV #125) certification. …

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Meet NPX 013 – Wayne Conrad

Name: Wayne Conrad NPX Number:013 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @wjconrad Virtualisation background: I started using ESXi 3.5 in 2007 or so on a small 3 host environment to run our corporate network. The consulting firm I was internal IT for at the time had been thinking of starting a VMware practice. The environment was …

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Meet NPX 010 – Sachin Bhowan

Name: Sachin Bhowan NPX Number: 010 Employer: VMXperts Blog URL: Twitter: @sbhowan Virtualisation background: I started with VMware in 2003 to develop a disaster recovery platform and have been working with virtualization ever since. Storage Background: Have worked with multiple and various storage platforms throughout my career in terms of design, troubleshooting and managing these platforms. …

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Meet NPX 009 – Richard Arsenian

Name: Richard Arsenian NPX Number: 009 Employer: Nutanix Inc Blog URL: http://headintotheclouds.com Twitter: @richardarsenian Virtualisation background:Working with VMware technologies since 2005 Storage Background: Shared storage experience with a wide range of technology vendors, in particular EMC Hyper Converged Infrastructure background:  Whilst at VMware I began to see a growing trend with hyper Convergence technology coupled with …

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