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
Hello Again – Nutanix Technology Champions
Well, it’s that time again… 2017 has come and gone, and sometimes I just don’t know where all the time went and what I was able to accomplish. I’m happy to say that for the 2nd year in a row
ESXi services disabled in NCC Health Check
This week I had the pleasure of deploying 2 more Nutanix blocks on behalf of one our partners, who is now starting to highly recommend Nutanix for their customer deployments of critical systems. The installation was pretty vanilla, 3 NX-1065-G5
Zerto Replication SQL Server Tuning – Lessons Learned
3.5 hours down to 6.5 minutes… Recently I went thru a project to get Zerto Replication up and running for a Emergency Dispatch Customer who was moving away from RecoverPoint and SRM in an effort to simplify and consolidate their
Cisco ASA Dropped Traffic Notice
Cisco seems to be having a rough go of it lately with bugs that have a time bomb for certain hardware and software. Following up on the Signal Component issues – that plagued a large number of product lines (And
The eGroup Team
eGroup – Together, We make IT happen. Our slogan, our tagline. IT is what we do, together. From our Operations team, to Inside Sales, to Sales, to Pre-Sales, to Delivery. We do IT, and together. We announced today that eGroup
vExpert, Nutanix Champion and Community
We’re just two months into 2017, and it already feels like the year is flying by! The 2017 vExpert announcements came out today – you can read it here, and for the 3rd year in a row (well, really 2.5
Cisco Nexus 7K Design with Active/Active FEX
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
Deploying and Configuring Prism Central On AHV
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
Acropolis Data Protection Configuration
Welcome back to my series on our journey of testing Nutanix and Mellanox. Part 1 & 2 of the series focused on Nutanix AHV networking and integrating with Mellanox, so we’re going to shift in Part 3 and look at