Author: Bart Donders
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Storage migration with AHV
One of the features my customers are missing in Nutanix and AHV is the possibility to migrate running virtual machines to another container. Well, the wait is over. Recently, Nutanix released AOS 5.19 and among the many features in this Short Term Support release version, there is the live migration of the storage of a…
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[Dutch] Inschrijvingen voor de tweede Nederlandse Nutanix User Group meeting zijn geopend
Op 28 november zal in Hoofddorp in de tweede Nederlandse Nutanix User Group meeting gehouden worden. In het mooie nieuwe kantoor van Nutanix hebben we een mooi programma samen kunnen stellen. Schrijf je hier in: https://events.nutanix.com/event/?id=1571327994-5da88ffab8960-5db058b9652ac 14:00 –14:30 Registration & Welcome 14:30 –15:00 Keynote: Ruben Spruijt 15:00 –15:45 Community Speaker: Vishwapreet Mahabir (PQR) – Xi Leap & Xi Frame…
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Nutanix gives freedom of choice in hardware
Freedom is choice. And the Nutanix platform gives plenty of choices. We already knew about the different hypervisors you could choose from, and also the different hardware vendors. Nutanix offers an addition choice. The AMD Epyc processor of the new generation is added to the portfolio. This new generation CPU is entering the datacenter market.…
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Nutanix announced Mine during .NEXT in Anaheim
At their annual .NEXT conference, Nutanix announced Mine just about an hour ago. The conference this year takes place in Anaheim. Unfortunately I am not able to attend this year, but hopefully all big topics will be brought to you on this site. Nutanix, market leader in Hyperconverged Infrastructure, and known by their journey to…
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Nutanix .NEXT 2017 just started
Right at this moment, .NEXT conference is starting in Washington DC. .NEXT is the yearly global conference of Nutanix, the enterprise cloud company. Really thousands of enthusiastic Nutanix partners, employees and of course customers are attending, all are waiting for some exciting new announcements of the company. This blog is written during the opening keynote,…
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Nutanix on the way to make the datacenter invisible!
During the .NEXT event in Las Vegas last June, Nutanix gave a great insight into the roadmap of their product for the upcoming year. At this moment, the .NEXT Europe is hosted in Vienna. During the keynote, presented on Wednesday November 9th, new announcements have been made. Also other improvements, mentioned in Break-out sessions are…
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Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster
Hopefully you will never need the information in this post. Lately, a wrong gateway was entered during the initial setup of a Nutanix cluster. Because the cluster was configured connected to a standalone switch, the typo was found when the cluster was already connected to the customers production network and was unreachable… Luckily you can…
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VMware vSphere 6.5 announced!
Today, October 18th, with VMworld in Barcelona, Spain, Vmware announced their latest release of their vSphere software. In VMware 6.5 the focus is on simplicity, scalability and security. While reading the Introduction Blog from Charu Chaubal, I noticed a few items, I was waiting for… First of all, the VMware Update Manager is now part of…
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Nutanix AHV: Multi-Site Distributing reference images
When you are using Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) in your environment, you will notice some difficulties, which you don’t have using VMware. Of course, this is completely understandable regarding the years of development in VMware, and those years in AHV. Luckily Nutanix provides multiple interfaces you can use to accomplish your tasks. One of my latest…
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Nutanix & Powershell: Restoring a Protection Domain on a remote site
Using Nutanix Acropolis in your infrastructure, you have multiple options to protect your virtualized infrastructure. Using Protection Domain and async replication. So, disaster recovery is very good handled in the Nutanix software. For long term retention of the data, a third party tool is most likely needed for protection. For a customer, I am replicating…