Nutanix announced the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Program today, 2014-10-15. Candidates will be reviewed individually and this award program will recognize Nutanix and web-scale experts and help in shaping the future of web-scale IT. To apply for the program, please use the NTC Application and include as much information as possible to make it easy for the selection committee …
This years VMworld in Barcelona will be my first VMworld visit after joining Nutanix in May earlier this year since i couldn’t attend the VMworld San Francisco event. I’m looking forward to the event as i do every year since it is a great place for learning new things, meeting great people. The following tasks will be included in my …
A few weeks back me and my colleagues Phil Ditzel and Artur Krzywdzinski was asked to create a customer demo including Nutanix and vSphere deployment. We decided to use vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) as the provisioning engine but this can be done via e.g PowerShell as well. The following steps are included in the vCD workflow we …
While doing customer, partner and event presentations the last couple of weeks i have been asked quite a lot of questions and one question that seems to pup up every time is about Nutanix Data Protection. This blog post (first in a series of blog posts) will outline how to configure Nutanix Data Protection within …
A few week ago i decided to put together a few short videos of how to use vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) to manage the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform (VCP). The video will show you how vCAC, using vCO, can be used to quickly create a new Nutanix Container and send an email …
Last week, before the 9/9 release of new the vCloud Suite software versions, i was asked by a potential Nutanix customer how long it will take from the moment the Nutanix block arrives on-site until a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) environment can be up and running and ready for virtual machine (VM) deployments. ————————————————————————————————————- Short answer: For …
This years VMworld in San Francisco will be my first VMworld visit since i joined Nutanix in May earlier this year and also the first time i’ll actually do something apart from being a regular visitor and or a blogger. Based on the above banner you probably understand where i’m going with this:) I’m really glad …
I received two questions on the same topic last week so i figure i’ll put together a blog post. The subject was “Cannot delete a Nutanix Container for my vSphere environment” !! A Nutanix Container is the logical unit, created from the Nutanix Storage Pool, where you store your virtual machines (VMs) and or files. A …
A new Prism-inspired version of the Nutanix support portal has been released today. The new Nutanix support portal is designed from the ground up with the user in mind, and complements the ease of use of Nutanix solutions. It includes powerful capabilities, such as: Improved user interface that mirrors Nutanix Prism Workflows for issue diagnostics, reporting …
There is a great opportunity for all of you interested in learning more about how to successfully deploy a Citrix based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution on top of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform. Technical experts from both Citrix and Nutanix have discussed the joint solution for desktop and application virtualization in a webinar you can watch via this …
Yesterday, 2014-07-02, Nutanix released version 4.0.1 of the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) and at least two of the new features will be much appreciated among IT architects and customers: Availability Domains – This is about “data placement” and the idea is to place the virtual machine data copies in different fault domains. This current release treats a Nutanix …
A few days ago i did a Nutanix Operating System (NOS) upgrade from version 3.5.4 to version 4.0. This blog post will describe the steps i took during the upgrade of a Nutanix 1350 Block just to outline how easy it actually is to upgrade the distributed Nutanix storage system. There are a few steps you manually need …
June 24:th Nutanix announced they has signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Dell. This will give new and existing Nutanix customers even more flexibility in terms of the underlying hardware chosen for the Nutanix software. Dell will, just like Nutanix, release Appliances in multiple variants to meet different performance and price requirements. The Nutanix …
A couple of months ago i did a vSphere implementation where the back end storage system were presented to the vSphere environment via NFS. Since my move to Nutanix this will be more common and basically the only option today when performing vSphere implementations. Nutanix presents storage to Hyper-V via SMB and to KVM via iSCSI so …
During my first month at Nutanix I have been doing quite a few Nutanix presentations for potential customers and consultants. I have received a lot of questions during the presentations but also questions via email including, but not limited to, e.g. setup, management, snapshot, disaster recovery, availability, Controller Virtual Machine (CVM), performance. Even though there is a lot …