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Category Archive: Nutanix
Nutanix Acropolis is Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop ready
Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) was released a few months ago at the Nutanix .Next conference. AHV is included in every Nutanix software license (Standard, Pro and Ultimate) and can run on any Nutanix node. Yesterday, 2015-08-12, the announcement was made that AHV is now verified as Citrix ready for XenApp and XenDesktop. This is something really good …
Meet NPX 004 – Samir Roshan
Name: Samir Roshan NPX Number: 004 Employer: Nutanix Inc Blog URL: thinkingloudoncloud.com Twitter: @kooltechies Virtualisation background: 10+ years of virtualisation experience Storage Background: Storage has been a continuous part of my journey in the virtualisation world sometimes mainstream some times not. I will say close to ~5 years overall. Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Since my …
Nutanix Operating System 4.1.4 released
It has only been approximately 1,5 months since the latest Nutanix Operating System (NOS) release and yesterday, 2015-07-22, Nutanix released yet another version of its operating system. Read more about the previous release 4.1.3 here. The new version, 4.1.4, comes with e.g. the following new features: Restore virtual machine (VM) locality after Acropolis host failure. …
Nutanix Operating System PreUpgrade checks
I have been asked a few times what is actually included in the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) PreUpgrade check available before you conduct a NOS upgrade so i figure i write a short blog post about it. The NOS PreUpgrade check is available via the Upgrade Software link under the gear icon at the right …
Meet NPX 001 – Josh Odgers
Name: Josh Odgers NPX Number: 001 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://www.joshodgers.com Twitter: @josh_odgers Virtualisation background: Working with VMware as a focus since ~2006 Storage Background: Shared storage experience with a wide range of technologies from EMC, Netapp, IBM, HP since early 2000s with a more NAS focus since 2010. Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Started working with …
Upgrade to vSphere ESXi 6.0 via Nutanix PRISM
So one of the cool things with the Nutanix PRISM interface is that more and more software components can be managed from this single interface. I created a post a while back where i showed how we can easily upgrade the Nutanix Operating System and you can fint it here. This blog will be about …
Hypervisor resource utilization question
When you determine the amount of resources you need for your virtualised environment you need to include several things such as: Hypervisor CPU requirements Hypervisor RAM requirements Hypervisor disk requirements Hypervisor CPU and or RAM requirement per running VM VM CPU requirements VM RAM requirements On top of this some hypervisors allows for resource oversubscription …
Nutanix Erasure Coding
For those of you who runs the Nutanix platform or have seen Nutanix presentations understands that the Nutanix Distributed FileSystem (NDFS) stores data using replication factor (RF) 2 or 3. This means that the file system stores either 2 pieces or 3 pieces of the same data to deliver availability and this is customer decision and configuration. Replication factor …
Nutanix Operating System 4.1.3 released
Updated 2015-07-23: Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.1.4 has been released, read more here. ———————————————————- Yesterday, 2015-06-10, Nutanix released a new version of the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1.3 and even though it’s just a DotDot release from the previous one 4.1.2 i would like to present some of the new things available. If you …
Nutanix Community Edition available
Approximately one month ago i wrote a blog post about the Nutanix Community Edition announcement which can be read here. By that time you could sign up for the public bete and i’m now happy to announce that the public beta is available. Get your own CE code by making a comment on this blog …
Nutanix Acropolis VM Live Migration
I guess many of you are aware of that Nutanix announced Acropolis today and immediately there were a lot of questions about what it is, what features it includes and how you use it. This blog post will focus on just one of the features available in Nutanix Acropolis which is build upon the KVM hypervisor and completely …
My Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) journey
A few months ago i wrote a blog post about the announcement of the Nutanix Platform Expert certification (NPX) which can be found here. For those of you following my blog and knows me are aware of that i have been focusing on one single hypervisor and solutions related to that software vendor the past …
Nutanix Technical Deep Dive & Demo
Just wanted to let you know that i will do a public speaking session on Nutanix. This will be a two hour event June 17 in Stockholm Sweden. I’ll be covering a limited number for topics so we have the time for deep dive and questions. This session will not be a sales presentation, it …
Nutanix Community Edition announced
A really short blog post but the content is really awesome. A lot of my readers have asked me about how to run the Nutanix software based hyper converged solution in a home lab. Today i got the answer and it is spelled Nutanix Community Edition (CE). The CE was announced by Nutanix today and will be released as …
Nutanix vRealize Automation reference architecture
Just realised that the blog post i put together after the Nutanix vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) reference architecture was published earlier this year was still unpublished. Received quite a few questions about it since the podcast, that can be found here, i did a few weeks back was released. During the past years i …