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  • Disaster Recovery in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide

    calendar Sep 2, 2025 · 7 min read · Business Continuity Nutanix AOS Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Deep Dive  ·
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    Disaster Recovery in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide

    Welcome to the Disaster Recovery Series I've been sitting on writing a series about Disaster recovery (DR) for a while, but maybe the writing bug has caught me - more after some recent conversations with customers. DR has evolved from a nice-to-have backup plan to an absolute business necessity. In 2025, organizations …


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  • Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 2

    calendar Jul 18, 2025 · 7 min read · Nutanix AOS AHV VM Placement Affinity Anti-Affinity Configuration Deep Dive  ·
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    Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 2

    Took me a bit longer to get back around to writing Part 2, life get's in the way sometimes! Following up on Part 1 where I covered the benefits (and some pitfalls) of Affinity and Anti-Affinity polices with AHV, this post will cover the configuration and validation of these policies. Affinity and Anti-Affinity policies …


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  • Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 1

    calendar Jun 13, 2025 · 7 min read · Nutanix AOS AHV VM Placement Performance High Availability Deep Dive  ·
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    Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 1

    In a virtualized environment, how and where your virtual machines (VMs) run isn't just a matter of resource availability. It's a key part of your resiliency, performance, and compliance strategy. That’s where Affinity and Anti-Affinity policies come into play. With Nutanix AHV, administrators may gain granular control …


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  • Scale Smart, Scale Fast: NC2 Scaling on AWS and Azure

    calendar Jun 11, 2025 · 6 min read · Nutanix AOS NC2 Public Cloud AWS Azure Scaling Deep Dive  ·
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    Scale Smart, Scale Fast: NC2 Scaling on AWS and Azure

    The Need for Elastic Infrastructure In today’s digital landscape, agility and resiliency isn’t just a nice to have, for many organizations it’s considered mission-critical. Whether you’re supporting seasonal growth, accommodating sudden spikes in analytics workloads, or preparing for disaster recovery, your …


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  • Accelerating AI Adoption with Nutanix Enterprise AI

    calendar Dec 4, 2024 · 7 min read · Nutanix AOS AI Enterprise AI Digital Transformation Deep Dive  ·
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    Accelerating AI Adoption with Nutanix Enterprise AI

    Disclaimer: I felt the need to write this post to highlight the work Nutanix is doing to bring a simple and powerful AI platform to the market, while also introducing some of the AMAZING work that the Data and AI team at eGroup Enabling Technologies, my employer for the last almost 12 years are doing for customers in …


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  • Enhancing Disaster Recovery with Nutanix Hybrid Cloud and Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure

    calendar Aug 15, 2024 · 6 min read · Nutanix AOS NC2 Azure Hybrid Cloud Deep Dive  ·
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    In today's digital landscape, where downtime can translate to significant financial loss and damage, having a robust disaster recovery (DR) strategy is no longer optional—it's essential. Organizations have many DR options at their disposal, each with its own advantages and considerations. Traditionally, on-premises DR …


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  • Zerto Virtual Replication - History and Capabilities

    calendar Aug 7, 2024 · 5 min read · Zerto vSphere Hyper-V Deep Dive  ·
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    This is the first part of a series about Zerto Virtual Replication, starting with some history and capabilities of Zerto. Additional posts will follow and dive deeper into the full Zerto suite. A Deep Dive into Zerto Virtual Replication: History, vSphere, Hyper-V, and Cloud Capabilities In the world of disaster …


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  • Cisco Nexus 7K Design with Active/Active FEX

    calendar Feb 6, 2017 · 3 min read · Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender FEX Design Deep Dive  ·
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    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 …


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  • FEX Topologies for Nexus: Complete Configuration Guide

    calendar Nov 19, 2015 · 4 min read · Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender FEX Deep Dive  ·
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    I’m a big an of the Cisco Fabric Extenders when it comes to getting more ports in a data center topology, I like the easy of management and simple layout for getting connections onto the FEX. However, after speaking with a few coworkers and friends, I came to the conclusion that the supported FEX topologies are still …


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  • Data Center Power 101: Infrastructure Fundamentals

    calendar Oct 27, 2015 · 1 min read · Power Data Center Infrastructure Deep Dive  ·
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    I’m always having to look up power connectors when quoting equipment or reviewing with a customer, to make sure that PDU’s have the appropriate receptacles. I always feel like the information provided by equipment providers doesn’t match up with what’s on the PDU or what the customer states they have. On the Packet …


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Mike Dent

Field CTO with a passion for making IT modernization actually manageable for organizations. Outside of work, I'm splitting time between driveway workouts with my wife, adventures with our dogs, and appreciating fine bourbon - because balance matters in both life and technology.
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