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 …

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Freedom 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 …

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I 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 since I forgot to renew at the end of 2015 and made it in the 2nd half of 2016) I’m honored to be included in the list …

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