Must be a first time for everything, right? Last week was my first time i participated in a company lead podcast recording and yesterday it was released. The topic that we covered was automation and orchestration with focus on Nutanix, vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as …
This is really awesome, today Nutanix has released the enterprise computing certification Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX). Since the certification is released by Nutanix it will off course require that each candidate completely master the Nutanix web-scale hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) concept and products. What will make NPX absolutely outstanding, and is a huge differentiator compared to other …
As you might have seen a new version (4.1.1) of the Nutanix Operating System a.k.a NOS was released a while ago. See the new features in this blog post. I have been through the upgrade process a few times now and last week i did one while running a customer workshop. The upgrade process just ran …
A very short blog post to inform you about the Nutanix .Next Community Podcast initiative that was launched December last year. This is a great source for staying ontop of what’s happening in the web-scale and datacenter technologies. There will be both Nutanix employees and external guest speakers during the weekly 30 min sessions. Please …
Yesterday, 2015-01-28, Nutanix released Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1.1. This means the general availability (GA) version of the NOS family 4.1 is now available for all our customers via the Nutanix Portal. The previous GA release was 4.0.2.2. The reason for the version number, 4.1.1, is that the 4.1 has been provided as an early …
This year i’m closer than ever to attend the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) since i’ll be in Canada working with some cool Nutanix, Horizon View, vRealize Automation and vRealise Orchestrator stuff:)
A few months ago Nutanix launched the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Program, read more about the program here. Yesterday (2014-12-24) the awardees were announced. 20 people are recognised as NTC for 2015:
A few days ago my colleague David Broome tested one of the new features, Metro Availability, in Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1 that will be released next year. Yeah i know that time frame is a little bit vague but stay tuned beginning of next year year and you might have some more information:) The NOS Metro Availability …
This video will show virtual machine (VM) provisioning via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) or vRealize Automation Center (vRA) to the Nutanix platform. The following rules and configuration applies to the vides: Approval is required when more than 2 virtual machines are requested. Virtual machines will be deployed to vCenter Server Folder: CentOS Virtual machines will be …
I’m really pleased to announce that Nutanix has released a public sizer tool. This tool will help you get an understanding of the number of Nutanix nodes including their specification you need to satisfy the compute (CPU & RAM) and storage requirements for your workload. Use this link to sign up for free access. Fill in …
This video will show how you can use vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA), vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRO) and Nutanix API to create a simple email based report including the following information: VM Name Operating System IP Address Number of vCPUs Amount of RAM …
In my previous “Nutanix Data Protection – Secure your data” found here i discussed how you can use Nutanix Prism to create Nutanix snapshots of your virtual machines (VMs). In this blog post i’ll take you through the process of restoring the VMs to a VMware vSphere environment. I’ll show you two separate use cases: Restore …
For the second year i’ll attend the Nordic VMUG conference held at Bella Center (where VMworld used to take place) in Copenhagen, Denmark the 20:th November 2014. Last years event was really good including a lot of good information and discussions so i’m hoping for the same this year. The Nordic VMUG event is a small …
It is with great pleasure i announce that Nutanix has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. If you have followed my blog or followed me on twitter you know i joined Nutanix earlier this year as a Solutions & Performance engineer. Nutanix delivers a web-scale system bundled in an appliance including CPU, RAM and …
This is the third video i have put together to show the vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) and Nutanix REST API integrations. Other related blog posts including automation videos can be found here: Create Nutanix Container via vCloud Automation Center Nutanix and vSphere deployment via …
As many of you already know, Nutanix web-scale converged infrastructure is a scalable virtualization platform for cloud, desktop, and business-critical applications and big data deployments. I really believe the sentence can be change to: Nutanix web-scale converged infrastructure is a scalable virtualization platform for all workloads The reason is our latest announcement, 2014-10-09, of the …