2024 has been a struggle for many organizations with the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, from increased costs for renewals to uncertainty in the EUC world with Horizon View. The concern from customers as to what their alternatives are is defintely keeping me busy throughout the week helping our customers navigate the …

Welcome back to my series on maintenance operations with Nutanix! In Part 1, I reviewed some scenarios on using maintenance mode with Nutanix AHV, using both Maintenance Mode functions within Prism Element and the CLI. As a quick recap from Part 1, you can use both the GUI functionality in AOS 6.x+ to place a host in …

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up the As-Built documentation templates I maintain for deployments; as part of this activity, I always come across outdated sections based on current feature sets, or areas that I think can use some additional content.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 …

It took me a while, but I finally migrated the blog from my original hosted Ghost platform to a new one, which hopefully will give me a good burst of energy to update some content! I decided to move away from etherbacon.com to a more personalized blog, mikedent.io. One area that I wanted to spend more focus time on …

As we wrap up the Super Bowl and realize that football (both College and Pro's) is over (I can't get on board with the USFL just yet), it's time to look to something else! I just wrapped a great week of interaction and passing not one but two cert exams, it's a week that get's me amped up about what comes next! As I …

Posting this more as a note to myself as a reminder and to also read the release notes a bit more carefully! After recently going thru an upgrade of the Firepower Management Center from 7.0.x to 7.2 FMCv, specifically on the Nutanix AHV platform I ran into a bug where the VM would not boot after the upgrade. While the …

It’s been a while since I last published a blog post. You know, 2020 got in the way big time. Lots of excuses there for not finding the time to write some content… While 2020 was an interesting year for all of us, the train didn’t stop rolling here at eGroup. We continued delivering speed and simplicity with Nutanix to …

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten any fresh content on this blog, hopefully I’ll get some content ideas to keep a regular cadence of updates going. While I was updating the cabling on the garage lab, I realized it had been a while since I had done anything on my CE lab from a version perspective, in fact the last …

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, …