A while back i wrote a blog post about Nutanix AHV and Linux VM Guest Customization and based on that one i have had a few requests about how to do the same for Windows based VMs so that is the topic for this blog post. For Windows based systems, if deploying VMs from base/template …
Just a quick reminder for those of you who have not already signed up for the Nutanix .Next Tour In Stockholm February 8, 2018. Click the figure below or the following link to register. This event is a chance for everyone who did not attend one of the two Nutanix .Next user conferences last year to …
Just a quick blog post to let you know that the NX-3155-G5 Node focusing on graphics intensive applications in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) space is now available. To make sure the best possible end user experience is provided the NX-3155-G5 node is configurable with one of the following GPU options: 2 x NVIDIA M10 2 …
This is the fifth blog post in the Nutanix Self Service Portal (SSP) blog post series. The other blog posts in the series are: Nutanix Self Service Portal Part I – Preparation & Initial Configuration Nutanix Self Service Portal Part II – Projects Nutanix Self Service Portal Part III – Roles Nutanix Self Service Portal Part IV – Images Nutanix Self Service …
With Nutanix AOS version 5.0 there is now an opportunity to use a single Nutanix Node as a backup and restore / replication target. I have briefly mention this here before but wanted to give you some more information around this since i have received a lot of questions about the solution over the past weeks. The …
This is the third blog post in the Nutanix Self Service Portal (SSP) blog post series. The other blog posts in the series are: Nutanix Self Service Portal Part I – Preparation & Initial Configuration Nutanix Self Service Portal Part II – Projects Nutanix Self Service Portal Part IV – Images Nutanix Self Service Portal Part V – VM management Nutanix Self …
This is the second blog post in the Nutanix Prism Self Service (SSP) blog post series. The other blog posts in the series are: Nutanix Self Service Portal Part I – Preparation & Initial Configuration Nutanix Self Service Portal Part III – Roles Nutanix Self Service Portal Part IV – Images Nutanix Self Service Portal Part V – VM management …
Nutanix Self Service Portal (SSP) is the user interface (UI) for the Nutanix Prism Self Service feature released with Nutanix AOS (formerly known as NOS or Nutanix Operating System) version 5. The following blog posts are included in the blog post series: Nutanix Self Service Portal Part II – Projects Nutanix Self Service Portal Part III – Roles Nutanix Self …
Yesterday, 2016-12-22, Nutanix released a new major version of AOS formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS). This means version 5.0 also known internally as Asterix announced during .Next In Las Vegas earlier this year is available for all customers. I wrote about the announcements from .Next in Las Vegas here so i will not include all the new features …
An ongoing project is very Linux oriented and i was given a CentOS based VM by the customer to use while delivering the project. This blog post will provide some tips to make administration a bit easier. Yes i know that you might not want to put password in a text file, which i do …
A while back i wrote that you could apply for the Nutanix technical Champion (NTC) title and apparently a lot of people did apply. Just wanted to let you know that the NTC award has been announced for 2017 and there is a total of 150 NTCs. The list includes some really interested champions including both end customers …
I really encourage all Nutanix customers and potential Nutanix customer located in United States to take a minute and register here for a chance to win a Nutanix Xpress. The following three elements make up the prize: Nutanix Xpress AHV Hypervisor Prism Management The Nutanix Xpress comes with the following specification: Three nodes with the …
Ihave received a few questions lately regarding Linux VM customization when using Nutanix AHV formerly known as Acropolis Hypervisor. This blog post will show how easy it is to get going with the well known Linux customization tool cloud-init and the showcase will be the following: Set VM hostname Set VM FQDN Name Update the /etc/hosts file …
This, Veritas NetBackup with Nutanix & vSphere Best Practices Guide Available, might be the longest heading during my 3.5 years as a blogger but what can you do:) Anyway, there is now a best practices guide available describing how you deploy Veritas NetBackup and vSphere on Nutanix infrastructure. So if you are already running that setup …
Yesterday, 2016-10-11, Nutanix opened the application for their Nutanix Technical Champion Program (NTC) for 2017. This will be the third year for this program and the NTC was actually opening the Nutanix .Next user conferance in Las Vegas in June 2016 which was pretty cool in my opinion. So if you’re a Nutanix expert that constantly …