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 …

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VMTurbo rebranded to Turbonomic

Last week i joined a VMTurbo blogger breifing where they told us about the name change presented in this blog post. One reason for moving away from the name VMTurbo was obviously to get rid of the association with either Virtual Machine and in some sense also VMware which many people associate the initial two …

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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 …

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Nutanix AOS 4.7.1 Released

It has only been about 1.5 months since Nutanix AOS 4.7 was released which i wrote about here and yesterday (2016-08-11) a maintenance release AOS 4.7.1 was shipped. As for any other maintenance software release they are mostly about bug fixes but one major new feature is support for sharing a virtual hard disk file (VHDX format) among multiple …

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Verify vMotion functionality using PowerCLI

One very important thing during any environment deployment or environment expansion is to verify it actually works as expected. It has been a while since my last script blog post but i wanted to share one PowerCLI script i put together a while ago to verify vSphere vMotion functionality. The script has been very handy …

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VMworld 2016 Barcelona blogger pass

I happy to announce i just received an email including a VMworld Barcelona blogger pass:) This is actually the fourth year i have been selected by the VMware vExpert team to get a free VMworld blogger pass. I’m really grateful for this since it’s given to a selected few VMware vExperts and makes it possible …

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August 2016 VCDX56 sponsor blog by Nakivo

This blog post i delivered by my blog sponsor Nakivo who presents how they enables VM Backup to Amazon Cloud for SoftNAS while cutting backup costs by 75%. Before moving on to the success story i just wanted to let you know that NAKIVO just released Backup & Replication v6.1 for VMware. The new version includes …

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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 …

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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 …

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Nutanix OpenStack Part III – Network Management

This will be the third part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series and it will cover the OpenStack Neutron network service. The following blog posts has been released so far: Nutanix OpenStack Part I – Deployment Nutanix OpenStack Part II – Project & User Management It’s now time to create two networks that can be used …

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NAKIVO – new VCDX56 blog sponsor

I’m very happy to announce NAKIVO as a VCDX56 blog sponsor. NAKIVO is based in Silicon Valleyed and is a privately-held software company that develops and markets a line of next generation data protection products for VMware VM backup, replication, and recovery. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is VMware-certified, purely agentless, can be installed on Linux and Windows, …

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Beers with Engineers

Just wanted to let you know that there is a new page/section on my blog since today, Beers with Engineers. If you are interested in getting to know the brilliant people working at Nutanix i suggest you spend a few minutes and listen to the 3 episodes recorded so far. I’ll be you’ll find them …

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July 2016 VCDX56 sponsor blog by Systancia

This blog post i delivered by my blog sponsor Systancia who presents a success story from one of their clients, Picoty. Summary Unquestionably, Systancia offers a quality of service and ease of use that we did not always have with our previous provider, particularly in management, processing impressions and responsiveness. We have also appreciated their …

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Top vBlog results 2016 are out

Beginning of May this year the annual top vBlog voting hosted by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and sponsored by VMTurbo started and today, June 30) the results were announced during a live session which you can watch here in case you missed it. This year Eric Wright from VMTurbo and John Troyer participated in the live session were the top 25 spots were …

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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 …

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Nutanix AOS 4.7 Released

Last week during the Nutanix .Next conference a few really cool announcements were made as i described in the Nutanix .Next Summary blog post. Today, 2016-06-28, Nutanix released AOS 4.7, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS), so many of the features announced are actually be made available for all existing customer with just a click …

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