A few days ago, 20160930, Nutanix released an update to their existing AOS (Acropolis Operating System), formerly known as NOS (Nutanix Operating System) meaning it is now at level 4.7.2. Even though this is a dot dot release it contains a few new features including e.g.: Ability to use either Data Services IP or Cluster IP …
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Need a Nutanix .Next 2016 blogger pass?
I’m happy to let all of my fellow blogger friends out there that if you still haven’t registered for Nutanix .Next user conference in Vienna November 8 – 10 November, 2016 you now got a chance to win a blogger pass. Based on the successful .Next event earlier this year in Las Vegas with over 2.500 attendees i bet …
Nutanix Pulse
A few questions i receive from time to time when talking to customers and potential customers are: What is Pulse? What information is included in Pulse data? How to configure Pulse? How does Pulse work? Almost all of the above information can be found on the Nutanix Portal but i’ll include a short summary in …
Veeam gives blog my readers chance to win cool prizes
I got some awesome news today. My blog sponsor, Veeam, has decided to give my blog readers from the Nordic countries an exclusive chance to win some cool prizes just by answering a few questions. Yes, you got that right, this is exclusively for my Nordic followers. This quiz won’t be available on any other website, so …
AHV Best Practices Guide version 2.0 released
Updated 20170113 – This version is no longer available. See AHV BPG v 3.0 for the latest version – —————————- Just wanted to let you know that Nutanix has released a new version of the AHV, formerly known as Acropolis Hypervisor, best practice guide. This document reflects the features available as of today, 20160907, and …
Nutanix @ VMworld in Las Vegas 2016
It’s just two days until the 2016 US based VMworld event. This year it’s held at Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas August 28 – September 1. Nutanix will be at the event as an Exhibitor at booth #2311. In addition to demos of VDI, Tier-1 apps, All Flash, Acropolis Block Services there …
Nutanix now runs on Cisco UCS
Today, 2016-08-18, Nutanix and Cisco announced a meet in the channel agreement where Nutanix AOS formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS) is supported to run on Cisco C-series. This is great news for companies who have standardised their infrastructure on the Cisco platform. Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi (5.5 & 6.0) and Microsoft Hyper-V are …
Nutanix vRealize Automation Reference Architecture v2.0
In April last year i wrote a blog post about the release of Nutanix vRealize Automation reference architecture which you can find here. A few weeks ago version 2.0 of the document was released and there are quite a few changes which you might have seen in the blog post Nutanix AHV, OpenStack & vRealize …
Nutanix OpenStack Part IV – Image Management
This will be the forth part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series and it will cover the OpenStack Glance Image service. The following blog posts has been released so far: Nutanix OpenStack Part I – Deployment Nutanix OpenStack Part II – Project & User Management Nutanix OpenStack part III – Network Management It’s now time to …
July 2016 VCDX56 sponsor blog by Veeam
This blog post i delivered by my blog sponsor Veeam and i think many of my existing and old customers plus blog readers will find it interesting since quite a few runs Nutanix + vSphere + Veeam. A recently released IDC white paper study surveyed more than 1,200 Veeam customers worldwide and found a few really interesting things e.g More …
Test Drive Nutanix
There is already a software only version available, Nutanix Community Edition, which you can access via Nutanix CE home page but now Nutanix has taking this even further and actually provides you with a Nutanix CE instance in the cloud. You can access and start using a Nutanix CE version in just a few minutes without …
Nutanix .Next 2016 Summary
This blog post will be my personal summary of what was announced, discussed and presented during the Nutanix .Next conference at Wynn resort in Las Vegas 20-22 June 2016. It was a great event and i’m sure you’ll find the new stuff really exciting The key message during the conference was all about Nutanix is the …
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. …
Nutanix .Next Conference 2016 in Las Vegas starts tomorrow
So it’s almost the day when it all starts meaning it’s finally time for the second Nutanix user conference, .Next. This time it is held in Las Vegas at the Wynn resort. Since i’ve been in Las Vegas for the past week doing some work i pre-registered and met up with a few colleagues, partners, …