Nutanix Community Edition Deployment Options
Last update : July 20 2015 (added another ESXi 6 link) : I’ll update this post as more Nutanix Community Edition blogs/links appear. Contact me if you’d like an invite to register on...
View ArticleErasure Coding in NOS 4.1.3
Being new to Erasure Coding, this topic is taking me a bit of getting used to. So I decided to reach out to Nutanix Engineering and try and get some of my basic questions answered, mainly because if I...
View ArticleOn Nutanix Resiliency – The Controller VM
Spot on! Invisible Infra means not babysitting old DC constructs, instead deliver *business* advantages. Source: https://twitter.com/vjswami/status/562298721942401026 If you make the claim that your DC...
View ArticleNutanix 4.5 Cross-Hypervisor VM Conversion
One of the reasons people stay with a particular type of hypervisor is that it is too hard (or too costly) to migrate to another type. All that drama of converting, testing and making sure all is right...
View ArticleNutanix Power Loss and Self-Recovery Demo
Failures. They happen. When they do, it is usually stressful to get things back to normal. What if that stress of a complete failure of all your servers and storage could be avoided, with the added...
View ArticleNutanix Foundation 3.7
Here are some of the improvements in Nutanix Foundation 3.7 which was released on Feb 27, 2017. Reorder of Blocks via Drag n Drop You can now reorder blocks so that they are in the desired positions...
View ArticleIntro to Nutanix Lifecycle Manager (LCM) v1.2
“Single Pane of Glass” gets thrown around a lot by vendors …. as does “upgrades are easy”. If you lucky enough to be a Nutanix customer, you already live this dream. “How confident are you when...
View Article“Remote” Bare Metal Foundation
One of the little known options when using “Bare Metal” Foundation is doing so over a layer 3 network, instead of the traditional “same layer 2 network + MAC address” method. This allows Foundation...
View ArticleNutanix Foundation 4.1
Foundation 4.1 brings a bunch of improvements to make Nutanix deployments even easier. The Foundation Golden Rule “Always upgrade and use the latest available version of Foundation” prior to your...
View ArticleNutanix Deployment Delight with “Zero-Touch” Foundation Central
With remote working now the new normal, it is challenging to send skilled IT professionals to data centers to install new equipment. Although Nutanix clusters have always been quick to install and...
View ArticleUpgrading CVM Foundation via API
Unconfigured Nodes can easily be upgraded Following on from the Foundation Central introduction, the nodes should be running Foundation 4.5.1+ as minimum. There could be a scenario where the...
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