The Nutanix Teams released the 2019 Nutanix Technical Champion (NTC) listing, and for the 3rd year in a row I’m honored to be part of this group of 129 professionals around the world help evangelize, implement and support the Nutanix platform for customers, partners and every group in between. It’s a group of people …
Read MoreInstalling Nutanix CE 5.6 with ISO Installer
Nutanix CE Version 5.6 is out, and it’s hot!!! With the release of Nutanix Community Edition version 5.6, Nutanix has also provided a new installation mechanism as an alternative to the previous dd imaging method, now allowing for a .iso installer. Previous CE Installs With previous Nutanix CE installs, it required the …
Read MoreFreedom to Choose… Freedom to Play… Freedom to Cloud…. I just returned from a week in New Orleans at the Nutanix .Next conference, where I was fortunte to represent eGroup as a partner as well as being part of the Nutanix Technical Champions group. In addition to being a conference attendee, a co-worker Dave Strum and …
Read MoreI realized it’s been a while since my last post, almost 3 months now have gone by. That can be a good thing. I wanted to use this post as a brief recap of the last few months, and include some personal news that has hit me right in the heart… Catching Up Starting in 2018 I became the Director of Data Center …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreHello Again: Nutanix Technology Champions 2017
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 I’m part of a great group of people in the IT industry, those of us pushing the value of Nutanix and their simple, effective and …
Read MoreThis 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 nodes at the Primary site and matching at the DR site. For the VMware …
Read MoreZerto 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 DR runbooks. As part of this project, we created multiple VPGs to match up with their …
Read MoreCisco 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 in Cisco’s defense affected more than just Cisco – other vendors are affetected). I’m still waiting to find …
Read MoreeGroup – 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 has been named to CRN Tech Elite 250 list for 2017, which “honors an exclusive group of North …
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