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 …
Nutanix Support For OpenStack Queens Release
A while back, actually during Nutanix .Next event in London 2018, Nutanix released support for the OpenStack Queens release. When I scheduled the post to be published I for some reason chosed 2019-11-29 and not 2018-11-29 so it’s a bit delayed:) The new release once again proves that Nutanix is taken the OpenStack path seriously …
Remove GCP Virtual Machine External IP Via Nutanix Calm
A few weeks ago I was in a project that used Nutanix Calm to deploy virtual machines (VMs) on-premises as well as in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Since the customer had a direct network connection to GCP they wanted to remove the VM external IP address to make sure their VMs can only connect to …
Nutanix Files 3.2 Released
Yesterday, 2018-12-04, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Files, formerly known as Nutanix Acropolis File Services, meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.2.0. As you might already know Nutanix Files is a file server supporting the following protocols: SMB 2.0 SMB 2.1 SMB 3.0 NFS v4 Apart from including bug fixes the …
Database as a Service with Nutanix ERA
You might have heard about Nutanix ERA before since it was officially announced back in May 2018 in the Nutanix .Next New Orleans time frame. You can read the press release here. Nutanix ERA is a product providing Database as a Service (DBaaS) management and has now been released. It enables you to easily provision database environments …
Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.10 And More Released
Today, 2018-11-26, Nutanix released the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of its operating system AOS also known as Acropolis Operating System. So that means we are on version 5.10 and since it is an LTS release we can expect it to be supported until late 2019/early 2020 which is pretty good. As usual check …
Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load Balancer Configuration
This is the fourth blog post about my work with Citrix ADC VPX which, as mentioned before, will be used as a Web Server Load Balancer. All blog posts in this series includes: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.2
Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. Two new columns are included in this version: VM Description vNUMA Configuration The VM Description information is available via Prism Element (Nutanix Cluster) but the vNUMA Configuration information is only available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if you want …
Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration
This is the third blog post about my work with Citrix ADC VPX which, as mentioned before, will be used as a Web Server Load Balancer. All blog posts in this series includes: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load …
Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV
In an upcoming project we will use Citrix ADC VPX (formerly known as NetScaler ADC or Citrix NetScaler or … ) appliance as Web Server load balancer. Based on that I deployed Citrix ADC VPX version NS12.1: Build 49.23.nc in my lab today to prepare the auto, via REST API, configuration needed when deploying and decommission …
Nutanix Prism Central – Configure Apps (Calm) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Updated 2018-10-23: Added information about GCP Compute Engine API and the GCP account privileges/Role assignment required. ——————————————————————————————— One of the new features included in the Nutanix Prism Central (PC) 5.7 UI is the option to connect the Apps (Calm product) section to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and manage your workload. This blog post will cover the PC …
Apply for Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2019
It’s this time of the year one again. In case you have missed it you can apply for the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) program until November 9, The announcement of the new members will take place in December 2018. As with any champion program it comes with benefits for the selected members and here are …
Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.9 And More Released
Yesterday, 2018-10-03, Nutanix released a new version of AOS meaning the latest version is 5.9. The 5.9 release is a Short Term Support (STS) release and will follow the previous mentioned rules for STS. The other release train of AOS is Long Term Support (LTS) with AOS 5.5.6 as the most recent release. AOS 5.9 …