I’m very excited that the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Program manager Mark Brunstad had some time to share his thoughts about the NPX program. The questions for Mark will obviously not be the exact same once as for the NPXs but i think you’ll find some really good, interesting and valuable information in this interview. Name: …
Category Archive: Nutanix
Nutanix Cluster Timezone configuration
One question i receive from time to time during Nutanix discussions, Nutanix implementations and via twitter is how to configure the correct timezone for the Nutanix components e.g. Nutanix Cluster and Nutanix Controller Virtual Machines (CVMs). After an installation you’ll have the PST (America/Los_Angeles) timezone configured and unless you are in that region it might be …
Nutanix Acropolis Operating System Compression and Deduplication
One of the new functionalities in Acropolis Operating System, formerly known as both Acropolis Base Software and Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.5, is the ability to enable both compression and deduplication on the same Nutanix Container. This blog post explains existing Nutanix nomenclature. The purpose of this blog post is to give you a …
Nutanix Erasure Coding customer feedback
I have previously written about the new Nutanix Erasure Coding (EC-X) feature available since Acropolis Base Software version 4.5 formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS). My EC-X blog post can be found here and it includes information about how it works and the space savings i got in my environment. Last week i received some customer feedback and since this …
Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part II
Updated 2019-11-01 – This blog post is obsolete, please see Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine High Availability for most recent information. Updated 2017-11-30 – To match new functionality in Acropolis. ————————————————————————————————————————————— This is the second part of the Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) blog series, you can find the first one here. This part will cover …
Nutanix VM Flash Mode
Nutanix has seen requests for achieving all flash performance for specific workload(s) within a hybrid system meaning data for business critical and latency sensitive applications should not be migrated from hot data tier, backed by SSD disks, to cold data tier, backed by HDD (spinning) disks. Because of this increasing demand Nutanix has created a …
Nutanix & Acropolis nomenclature
Since Acropolis Base Software 4.5 was released 2015-10-06 i have received quite a lot of questions (via twitter, email & during VMworld last week) about the different names Nutanix uses for their components, features and logical constructs. This blog post will try to explain this and i will keep it updated whenever a name is added, …
Nutanix Invisible Infrastructure for SAP NetWeaver
Yes, you read the blog post heading correct, Nutanix is now supported and certified for SAP NetWeaver. This is a very short blog post but it’s really good news for all of you running SAP® applications today, running Nutanix today or plan to run Nutanix in the future. The SAP® applications included are e.g.: Enterprise Resource management (ERP) …
Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part I
Updated 2019-11-01 – This blog post is obsolete, please see Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine High Availability for most recent information. ————————————————————————————————————————————— This is the first blog in a series of blog posts for the Nutanix Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) feature. This feature only comes into play when you run Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) on …
Apply for Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2016
Last year Nutanix accounted the Nutanix Technical Champion (NTC) program which i blogged about here. Today i received a message that the applications for 2016 are open so if you’re a Nutanix expert that constantly contribute to the community you should apply via this link for NTC before October 26 2015. The following are some …
Meet NPX 007 – Michael Webster
Name: Michael Webster NPX Number: 007 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://longwhiteclouds.com Twitter: @vcdxnz001 and @WebScale007 Virtualisation background: 15 years of virtualizing business critical applications and Unix to x86 migrations. VMware since workstation beta. Specialty in Monster VM’s. Mainly in large enterprise environments. Storage Background: I’ve designed and implemented storage solutions from most of the main vendors including IBM, …
Meet NPX 006 – Bas Raayman
Name: Bas Raayman NPX Number: 006 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://basraayman.com Twitter: @basraayman Virtualisation background: Started with virtualization while still working at SAP. Worked with VMware, Solaris Zones and the likes, then kicked the VMware stuff into a different gear when I started my job as a vSpecialist at EMC, and obviously while working at Nutanix. Storage …
Nutanix @ VMworld in San Francisco 2015
It’s about a week before this years VMworld event (30 August – 3 September) held in San Fransisco at Moscone Center. Nutanix will be at the solutions exchange as an event Gold sponsor. This gives you a great opportunity to step by our booth #1729 to meet some excellent Nutanix representatives and discuss pretty much anything regarding our …