As with years past, as we come to a close on year’s end, I take some time to clean up the As-Built documentation templates I maintain for deployments; as part of this activity, I always come across outdated sections based on current feature sets, or areas that I think can use some additional content. This week, I …

Zerto just dropped Update 2 for version 10, and they continue to really drive some great features into the product, extending what started with v10 as some game-changing features. See my past post on this one. Starting with v10, Zerto made the ZVM role only available on a Linux appliance, even though it was available …

Updated 5.22.19 Coming back from the Nutanix .Next conference two weeks ago, the biggest announcement that really got me excited as the ability for Nutanix Frame to run in AHV environments. AHV comes as an additional environment to AWS where Frame started, Azure and Google Cloud, currently in early release. I’ll be …

If you haven’t taken a close look at the hypervisor from Nutanix, AHV, well you might be missing out on something very valuable – that you already have access to as a Nutanix customer. AHV addresses the majority of the use cases people require with virtualization, and it does so very well with a simple deployment, …

News Flash: Always wanted to try Nutanix Files (Formerly Acropolis File Services or AFS) but didn’t have the license to do so? Well now you can! With 1TB of Files for every AOS Cluster! Nutanix continues to release amazing features and products on their journey of the Enterprise Cloud Platform. While the release of new …

I recently had the opportunity to deploy 12 Nutanix nodes for a customer across 2 sites (Primary and DR), 6 of which were 3055-G5 nodes with dual NVIDIA M60 GPU cards installed and dedicated to running the Horizon View desktop VMs for this customer. This was my first experience doing a Nutanix deployment using the …

Back in November 2015 I wrote a post about FEX Topologies with the Cisco Nexus platforms, and at the time the Nexus 5K/6K line was the only model that would support the active/active FEX topology (FEX-AA), which was unfortunate in designing redundant connectivity for downstream devices. But with the release of NX-OS …

Continuing our journey with testing out Nutanix AHV functionality for one of our partners, one of things we wanted to get deployed was Prism Central. Prism Central is very similar to VMware’s vCenter, defining Prism Central as “software provides centralized infrastrcuture management, one-click simplicity and …

Part 4: Prism Central Deployment and Configurationetween clusters for VM migration and disaster recovery testing." date: 2016-09-21 featured: false draft: false toc: false usePageBundles: true categories: "Technology" tags: "acropolis" "ahv" "nutanix" "data-protection" "replication" Welcome back to my series on our …

Welcome back to my Nutanix and Mellanox blog series! In Part 1, I went through the process of setting up the "Technology" tags: "acropolis" "ahv" "mellanox" "nutanix" "networking" "configuration" Welcome back to my short series on our journey of testing Nutanix and Mellanox. Following up on Part 1 of the Nutanix and …