Approximately four years ago a wrote a two blog post series about Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) which are obsolete so do not refer to the below once for AHV HA functionality: Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part I Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part II Over the years I have …
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 …
One thing that many IT organisation (shops and or departments), no matter their size, tend to struggle with is calculating the exact cost of their operations including e.g.: Software license Software maintenance Hardware (incl support and maintenance) Operational costs Salaries Other expenses. I have seen this many times during my almost 17 years in the …
This blog post i delivered by the blog sponsor Infinio who presents three top things to know about Infinio’s Accelerator 3.0 release. A while back week we released version 3.0 of our flagship Infinio Accelerator product, a software-based server-side cache that provides high performance to any storage system in a VMware environment. Here are 3 …
So it’s almost the day when it all starts meaning it’s finally time for the second Nutanix user conference, .Next. This time it is held in Las Vegas at the Wynn resort. Since i’ve been in Las Vegas for the past week doing some work i pre-registered and met up with a few colleagues, partners, …
Name: Richard Arsenian NPX Number: 009 Employer: Nutanix Inc Blog URL: http://headintotheclouds.com Twitter: @richardarsenian Virtualisation background:Working with VMware technologies since 2005 Storage Background: Shared storage experience with a wide range of technology vendors, in particular EMC Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Whilst at VMware I began to see a growing trend with hyper Convergence technology coupled with …
Yesterday, 2016-05-24, Nutanix announced a new offering that will bring the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud to the SMB market. If you find this interesting i suggest you sign up for the virtual launch even that will be held June 28 using the following link. The Nutanix Xpress software edition will include the following capabilities and features: …
Last year i did my first company podcast when i had a chat with AngeloLuciani and Dwayne Lessner about vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) which can be found here. Last week i had the pleasure to record my second one also hosted by the same awesome crew (AngeloLuciani and Dwayne Lessner) and this time we had a …
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 …
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 …
Name: Rene Van Den Bedem NPX Number: 008 Employer: Saudi Telecom Company Blog URL: http://vcdx133.com Twitter: @vcdx133 Virtualisation background: vSphere 4.0 to 6.0, with just over 6 years in the virtualisation space. Storage Background: IBM DS8800, IBM SVC, IBM Storwize V7000, HDS USP-100, EMC Symmetrix VMAX20K & XtremeIO, with just over 6 years in the storage space. …
I have had numerous questions over the 18 months since i joined Nutanix about my home lab/working environment setup and this blog post will describe the setup and what i have been using my environment for. To give you a short summary it is built on a Nutanix Block and a Nutanix technology partner Arista …
So finally it’s here, vRealize Automaiton (vRA) 7 formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) was released yesterday 2015-12-17 and as many of you already knows it brings a lot of new features compared to vRA 6.x. I have blogged about new features for vRA 7 before so this is just a short summary: Per Tenant …
A few months ago Nutanix opened the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Program application for 2016. You can read more about the application process and NTC program here. Today, 2015-12-03, Nutanix announced the lucky once that got the title for 2016 and i’m happy to see that a lot more people applied this year and a lot more people were …
