There has been a lot of discussions lately around vRealize Automation (vRA) and AHV, formerly known as Acropolis Hypervisor, integrations and if it possible to manage AHV based virtual machines (VMs) via vRA. As many of you already know Nutanix has released its own OpenStack solution that manages AHV objects. The OpenStack solution consists of a single …
As mentioned in the blog post Acropolis Base Software 4.6 released the Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is now general available for virtual machines (VMs) and no longer a tech preview as in Acropolis Base Software 4.5. NGT is a software package distributed and maintained by Nutanix and its purpose is to provide advanced VM management functionality. …
So yesterday, 2016-02-22, Nutanix released Acropolis Base Software version 4.6 formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS). Even though it is just a dot release it contains a lot of feature enhancement, performance enhancements and also new features. This is the next step in the Nutanix journey to make the cloud invisible and it continues to …
Just wanted to mention that Acropolis Base Software, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.5.2 was released 2016-02-03. In this dot dot release update there is a really useful update included meaning that you can use the Nutanix 1-Click upgrade for BIOS and BMC firmware. This is really cool and will make operation even more …
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 …
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 …
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 …
