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Dark Sites: The Ultimate Sovereignty Stress TestWhen I think of “dark sites,” I think of covert operations whether good or bad. No one is allowed to see what’s going on. There’s a sneaky element to it too, into the night and up to no good. That could not be further from the truth with NKP and dark sites. Dark sites represent one of the most demanding deployment models in enterprise infrastructure for workloads and data that do not interact with the “outside world,” meaning the Internet through digital connectivity. Dark sites naturally play a significant role for customers who need to adhere to certain digital sovereignty standards within their industry or a specific region. Nutanix delivers a secure distributed cloud platform that can help customers achieve these goals. For organizations operating under digital sovereignty requirements, dark or air-gapped environments often become the ultimate architectural test.In my first series of NKP solution blog posts, I focused on how and why N

Hybrid operations, escalating ransomware threats, and tighter recovery expectations mean business continuity is no longer optional. Organizations need professionals who can design, implement, test, and recover complex environments quickly and reliably. The Nutanix Certified Professional – Business Continuity (NCP‑BC) certification validates the skills required to plan, execute, and troubleshoot enterprise‑grade Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions using Nutanix.Is This Certification Right for You?You’ll be a strong fit for the NCP‑BC certification if you have 2–3 years of IT infrastructure experience, at least a year working with Nutanix environments, and hands‑on exposure to disaster recovery or backup solutions. Typical candidates include Systems Administrators, Backup Administrators, Architects, Platform Engineers, and IT Operations professionals responsible for keeping critical applications available.While not required, completing the Nutanix Business Continuity Admi

This post was authored by Sudeep Goswami, CEO, Traefik Labs and Aniket Daptari, Sr Director Product Management, NutanixThe Real Challenges Behind the Buzzwords Unified Application Intelligence: The Nutanix and Traefik Labs Joint Solution Under the Hood: How the Integration Works What This Looks Like: A Real Application Flow The Time to Act Is NowThe infrastructure world is in the middle of a tectonic shift, and it's not a single earthquake. It's three hitting at once.Enterprise IT teams are navigating a VMware displacement wave triggered by the Broadcom acquisition. They're managing the coexistence of legacy applications on virtual machines alongside modern microservices running in Kubernetes. And they're under pressure to operationalize AI, embedding inference directly into production applications, not as a science experiment but as a business-critical capability.Each of these shifts alone would be a multi-year transformation. Together, they're redefining what enterprise infrastructur

The introductory promotional offer has reached capacity.Hybrid networks, zero‑trust requirements, and frequent security issues mean organizations need professionals who can design, secure, and troubleshoot their environments effectively. The Nutanix Certified Professional – Network & Security (NCP‑NS) 7 certification confirms the skills needed to work with Flow Virtual Networking and Flow Network Security in Prism Central. Is This Certification Right for You?You’ll be a strong fit for the NCP-NS certification if you have at least 2 years of networking or security experience and 6 months hands‑on with Nutanix Flow. Typical candidates are Network Engineers, Architects, and Security Admins who deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Flow in production. Completing the Nutanix Network & Security Administration (NNSA) course is recommended, but not required. What You’ll Be Tested OnThe NCP‑NS exam mirrors real‑world Flow operations across five domains. You’ll work through scenarios that sp

Hey community 👋If you built something clever, solved something annoying, or learned something worth sharing this week — you’re in the right place.The Weekly Download is your signal boost: the most useful, interesting, and “wait, that’s actually helpful” moments from across the Nutanix community.Real builds. Real lessons. No fluff.Let’s get into it 👇A Practical Look at Nutanix MST for Disaster Recovery ​@mikedent  Nutanix Technology Champion 2026選出+Storytellerアワード受賞 ​@TomoMartin  What’s new at Nutanix University? NCP-NS 7 is open for scheduling ​@mikkisse  Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.5 ​@MarcoT  Upgrading Citrix NetScaler VPX to the Nutanix AHV version ​@JeroenTielen  From Outage to Insight: Resilient Public Sector IT ​@mikedent That’s a wrap on this week’s highlights 🙌Big thanks to everyone who showed up — asking, answering, sharing, and pushing things forward. This community works because you do.Got something interesting? Don’t keep it to yourself — post it, share it, start a th

This post was published on April 7, 2026 and was authored by Ronn Martin, Senior Product Advisor, Veeam anf Ed Collins, Director, Project Management, NutanixThe winds of change are whipping through the halls of managed service providers (MSPs), especially those with substantial investments in Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions for Veeam customers. VMware announced recently that they will be significantly modifying their Advantage Partner Program for VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs) on October 31, 2025, which is resulting in many MSPs looking for a replacement solution for their BaaS customers. Having a replacement solution that enables existing revenue streams to continue without a big lift and shift would be tremendous relief to impacted partnersIn response to market dynamics, Nutanix and Veeam have teamed up and are actively developing enhanced solutions for MSPs who require multitenancy constructs in order to maintain economy of scale solutions. In turn, BaaS customers will

Hey community 👋Every week, something interesting happens here, a clever workaround, a breakthrough moment, or a question that sparks a bigger conversation.The Weekly Download is where we capture it.This isn’t noise or recycled content, it’s what you are building, testing, and figuring out in real time. The ideas that made people stop scrolling, think differently, or say: “I’m trying that.”Let’s get into it 👇OpenClaw on Nutanix AHV: Basic Installation Guide ​@Exe  NKP クラスタの GPU ノードで GPU Pod むけスケジューリング調整を設定してみる。 ​@go.watanabe03-72705  The End of SSH on Nutanix: An Inevitable Shift to APIs ​@Exe  “Best Practices” Nutanix Microsegmentation (Flow) ​@JeroenTielen That’s a wrap for this week 🙌What makes this community special isn’t just the tech, it’s the people showing up, sharing openly, and helping each other move faster.If you learned something, built something, or solved something this week, post it. That’s how this gets better.We’ll be back next week with more signal.Until then, keep

This post was authored by Jesse Gonzalez — Cloud Native & AI Solutions Architect, NutanixThis final part of the series integrates the components introduced in Parts 1 and 2—LMCache, Nutanix Files, and GDS—to validate the complete solution. We will provide concrete performance benchmarks to compare the combined LMCache, Nutanix Files Storage, and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) stack against a baseline using traditional local caching. This comparison will focus on inference throughput, latency (Time to First Token, or TTFT), and overall cost efficiency. The series concludes by demonstrating the significant real-world cost savings and scalability achieved through this integrated architecture.The theory is sound: intelligent cache management combined with a CPU-bypassing, high-speed remote storage path should tame LLM inference costs and boost performance. But in the demanding world of production AI, performance is measured in milliseconds and dollars. This final installment of the ser

This post was authored by Jesse Gonzalez — Cloud Native & AI Solutions Architect, NutanixThis article is the second part of a blog series exploring how modern infrastructure solutions address the computational and memory challenges of serving large language models (LLMs) with massive context lengths. Specifically, it details the synergistic architecture of LMCache (an open-source Key-Value Cache manager), Nutanix Files (a high-performance, scale-out file storage solution), and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS).Part 1, Context Overload, of the GPU Kind, identified the core scaling problem: increasing LLM context windows linearly inflate the Key-Value (KV) cache. This excessive KV cache consumes High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on the GPU, causing "Context Overload"- low GPU utilization, restricted batch sizes, and high inference costs. Part 1 concluded that an efficient solution to offload and manage the KV cache outside of GPU HBM is crucial for scaling.The rapid evolution of Large Languag

This post was authored by Jesse Gonzalez — Cloud Native & AI Solutions Architect, NutanixToday’s real-world AI applications — from copilots to chatbots — rely on large context lengths and long persistent conversation history to deliver natural, human-like interactions. But those expanding context lengths are inflating GPU memory needs and inference costs.The escalating costs and performance bottlenecks associated with Large Language Model (LLM) inference at scale present a significant challenge for organizations deploying AI-powered applications. Context windows, which store the history of a conversation or query, are a primary driver of these high costs, as they consume vast amounts of high-speed GPU memory and require repeated, costly re-computation for every token generated. This is the first post in a technical deep-dive blog series exploring a powerful solution to this problem.In this first post of the series, we will unveil the underlying challenge and introduce a powerful so

Hey everyone 👋Another week, another wave of clever ideas, helpful answers, and “wait… that’s possible?” moments from the Nutanix community.Whether you were deep in a home lab, automating something you really didn’t want to do manually again, or helping another member solve a tricky problem, this space is where all of that knowledge comes together.Each week in The Weekly Download, we round up some of the most interesting discussions, guides, and discoveries shared by the community. The goal is simple: surface the posts that made people pause, learn something new, or bookmark for later.From automation tricks to certification prep to real-world infrastructure tips, there’s a lot of good stuff this week.Let’s take a look 👇Autopatching Windows Templates with ansible ​@Jonashogman  Ansible Automation ​@Jonashogman  Preparing for the NVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI Infrastructure (NCP-AII) exam ​@mikkisse  Autopatching Linux Templates ​@Jonashogman  AWX Schedules for Autopatching playbook

You survived another week in the trenches of enterprise tech — and so did we.Whether you were deep in a Prism dashboard at 2am, Googling an error message for the fourth time, or quietly celebrating a fix that finally, finally worked this is your newsletter. The Weekly Download is where the Nutanix community's best brainpower gets its moment in the spotlight: the clever hacks, the hard-won insights, and the "wait, you can do that?" discoveries that make this job so interesting.No fluff. No filler. Just the good stuff curated from real conversations, real problems, and real people who love building things that work.Grab your coffee (or your third one). Let's see what the hive mind cooked up this week. 👇Nutanix AHV: deploy an Ubuntu 24.04 VM with a NVidia Tesla P4 GPU ​@Exe  Nutanix Volumes VG の Description を v4 API で取得してみる。​@go.watanabe03-72705  Nutanix Flow Certification for Network Engineers: Nutanix Community Podcast ​@ntnx_angelo And that's a wrap on another banger of a week in the

In this episode of the Nutanix Community Podcast, we sit down with Amin from the Nutanix Flow product team to unpack two major developments: the launch of the new NCP-NS (Nutanix Certified Professional – Network Security) certification and the architectural shifts introduced in AOS 7.5 .With over 20 years of networking experience spanning traditional data centers, software-defined networking, and cloud architecture, Amin breaks down how Nutanix Flow has evolved from basic microsegmentation into a fully integrated networking and security fabric. We explore what the new certification validates, who it’s designed for, and why operational, real-world expertise is now the focus.We also dive into Flow disaggregation from Prism Central, the “Follow Me Anywhere” security model for DR scenarios, FlowCNI for Kubernetes, and what unified networking across VMs and containers really means in practice.If you're a network engineer, security architect, or Nutanix administrator looking to modernize you

Hey Nutanix fam! 🎉💡Welcome to The Weekly Download—your all-access pass to the best of our Nutanix community. This is where the brilliance of our members takes center stage, from mind-bending technical tips to game-changing projects and inspiring “aha!” moments. Every week, we sift through the threads, blogs, and discussions you power to spotlight the knowledge, creativity, and camaraderie that make this space hum.Think of it as your backstage pass to the innovators, problem-solvers, and trailblazers shaping the future of cloud and enterprise tech—that’s you! 🚀✨Upgrading Windows machine from BIOS to UEFI on Nutanix AHV (and IDE to SCSISATA) ​@JeroenTielen  Maxi Best Of Nutanix CLI Checking Network Configuration ​@Exe  Automatic update Golden Images with Nutanix X-Play ​@JeroenTielen  Maxi Best Of Nutanix CLI  Create or Modify Subnets ​@Exe  Preparing for the Nutanix Certified Master – Multicloud Infrastructure 6.10 Exam ​@mikkisse  Watch out for scheduled jobs with dynamic variables!

Welcome back, friends! 👋Another week, another round of brilliant ideas from our community. The Weekly Download is your weekly celebration of the smartest, most practical things you've all been building, discovering, and sharing. From late-night breakthroughs to "I wish I'd known this sooner" tips, it's all here.This is what happens when smart, generous people come together to solve problems *together*. No algorithms deciding what matters. Just the good stuff that actually moves the needle. Let's dive in! 👇Design, & deploy defensively ​@Kcmount  Deploying Nutanix Central On-Premises ​@JeroenTielen  NKP – Nutanix Kubernetes Platform – Whats All The Noise ​@jagdev.virdi-44934  Configuring Nutanix Files in PC ​@BartDonders And that's our week! 🌟Thank you to everyone who made this community thrive, the question-askers, the problem-solvers, the knowledge-sharers, and the quiet learners. You're what makes this space special.We'll see you next week with more insights, more "aha!" moment

Hey Nutanix fam! 👋 Welcome back to The Weekly Download, your front-row seat to the brilliance happening in our community every single day.This week, you all showed up with the heat: clever fixes that made us go "why didn't I think of that?", midnight breakthroughs fueled by determination (and probably coffee ☕), and conversations so good we had to screenshot them for later.This roundup is proof that the best learning doesn't happen in isolation, it happens when smart people like you decide to share what you're building, break down what you've figured out, and help someone else level up.No fluff. No filler. Just pure community gold. Let's jump in 👇How to setup Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK) ​@gael01  Hyperconvergence (HCI) The End of the Monolithic Era ​@Exe  Just A Server Engineer Erasure Coding – What is it Does It Even Work ​@jagdev.virdi-44934  What is Hyperconvergence (HCI) The End of 3-Tier Architecture  IT Infrastructure Explained ​@Exe  Working with GPUs in AHV  Nu

Hello, builders 👋If you shipped something clever this week, learned something the hard way, or bookmarked a thread thinking “I’ll come back to this later” welcome. You’re exactly where you should be.The Weekly Download is your snapshot of what the Nutanix community has been experimenting with, breaking (on purpose), fixing, and sharing out loud. No algorithms. No filler. Just real-world insights from people in the trenches turning curiosity into capability.From deep technical dives to practical “try this today” tips, this week’s roundup is a reminder of what makes this community special: smart people, generous knowledge-sharing, and a bias toward building better systems together.Let’s jump in 👇NUMA Architecture  Nutanix ~ 不自量力 の ​@WeithennWang  What’s new at Nutanix University New Nutanix Certified Professional – Network and Security certification ​@mikkisse  Prism CentralのVMスタートアップポリシーでHAイベントを発生させてみる【AOS 7.5 AHV 11 PC 7.5】 ​@TomoMartin  Anatomy of a 3-Tiers Architecture  IT Infrastr

This post was authored by Chris Marks, Principal Outbound Product Manager at ParallelsThe Challenge: What’s Slowing IT DownEnterprises today are facing what can only be described as an application and data avalanche. Soon, IT teams could be managing many more applications and dealing with exponential volumes of data. Why? This is due in large part because of  the rise of AI, everyone can be a developer, and new applications can be created in a matter of minutes.This surge in app creation, data, devices, and workloads is putting unprecedented pressure on IT organizations. The resulting data explosion is driving new levels of operational complexity, especially at the edge, where businesses strive to keep data and applications as close to end users as possible for performance and compliance reasons.At the same time, workloads are constantly moving. Shifts in corporate structure, private equity acquisitions, and evolving cost models are forcing IT teams to move  workloads dynamically - bet

This post was edited on February 5, 2025. The beta program has reached capacity.Staying competitive in networking and security requires more than understanding today’s threats. It means mastering the platforms and technologies enterprises use to defend against use to defend against them. Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking and Nutanix Flow Network Security reduce complexity and strengthen security across hybrid multicloud environments. 💻  New Network and Security TrainingThe Nutanix Network and Security Administration (NNSA) online course helps you confidently deploy and manage network segmentation and advanced network governance using Nutanix Flow.To help position you for success, the course equips you with the skills and knowledge to:Prepare an environment and deploy Nutanix Flow Configure key Flow constructs, including virtual private clouds (VPCs), BGP sessions, and security policies Configure and manage role‑based access control (RBAC) Identify, investigate, and troubleshoot common F

Hello community 👋Another week, another treasure trove of brilliance from the Nutanix community! Whether you spent your week debugging at 2 AM, had that lightbulb moment in the shower, or discovered a game-changing workaround that made you feel like a tech wizard — this roundup is for you.The Weekly Download is your front-row seat to the best conversations, smartest solutions, and most creative experiments happening in the Nutanix world right now.This week's highlights are packed with everything from deep technical dives to practical tips you'll want to bookmark immediately. It's proof that amazing things happen when brilliant people share knowledge freely and fearlessly.No fluff. No filler. Just pure community gold that sparked real conversations this week.Let's dive in 👇Unlearning VMs One Infrastructure Guy's Kubernetes Journey  ​@mikedent  The power of sFlow. Network has always been the foundation ​@gael01  How to upgrade Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) ​@gael01  Just A Server En

This April, we’re heading to Chicago (April 7–9) for Nutanix .NEXT — and we want you to help shape one of the sessions on the agenda.Our session is called:From Home Lab to Production: Why Nutanix Community Edition MattersThe core idea is simple: Community Edition (CE) is where builders begin. It’s where curiosity turns into confidence. Where late-night tinkering becomes real-world skill. And, more often than people realize, where production journeys actually start.But instead of guessing what matters most to the community… we’d rather ask you directly.What we want from you 👇We’re opening this session up before we ever step on stage. Here’s how you can help:1. Tell us what we should coverWhat would make this session a must-see for you?Some prompts to get you thinking: How you got started with CE (first install wins + first install pain 😅) Home lab architectures you’re proud of Lessons learned moving from CE → production CE for learning, cert prep, or experimentation Automation, networ

Looking for a space to connect with fellow Nutanix users and IT professionals? Join an upcoming Nutanix User Group (NUG) meeting!Who should attend?If you’re a current or future Nutanix user in a technical role, or a partner with technical expertise, you’re welcome to attend! To keep the focus on learning, we kindly ask partner sales representatives to sit this one out.Check out the upcoming meetings and RSVP today to join technical discussions, network with peers, and discover new insights.FebruaryDenver NUG Thursday, February 12 Kansas City NUG Thursday, February 12 Government NUG Thursday, February 19Israel NUG Tuesday, February 24 RSVP MarchAtlanta NUG Wednesday, March 4 RSVPDallas NUG Wednesday, March 4 RSVPMinneapolis NUG Thursday, March 5 RSVPLas Vegas NUG Wednesday, March 11 RSVPPortland NUG Thursday, March 12 RSVPNebraska NUG Thursday, March 12 RSVP Start the conversation early by joining your local NUG chapter forum on our community site! Share what you’re working on and conne

It is a turbulent time in the data center. It’s a time of rapid scale. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) continues to scale and is designed to deliver resilient compute and storage across the data center. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure software stands firm, supporting an array of workloads and holding its ground against complexity and sprawl.Yet a shadow remains. With HCI’s strength, the lingering grip of data gravity and cluster boundaries persists. Binding virtual machines or workloads to the storage of a single cluster, restricting resource placement and forcing operators to choose between available compute and available storage capacity. The Infrastructure endures, but flexibility is under siege.For years, the Jedi of the data center have learned to operate within these constraints, balancing capacity across clusters, moving workloads and planning migrations. They have come to accept the trade-offs as a cost of scale. However, as environments grow larger and more distributed, those

In storage administration, "flexibility" is often the hardest requirement to satisfy. You want high availability, but you also need architectural freedom. You want disaster recovery, but you need it to fit within specific budget and hardware constraints. You want massive scale, but you want to start small and grow organically.Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) 5.3 is defined by its ability to deliver on these needs without the traditional tradeoffs. It decouples the capabilities you rely on from the infrastructure constraints that usually govern them. Whether it’s streamlining Kubernetes® provisioning, enhancing metadata scalability, or bringing analytics to air-gapped environments, NUS 5.3 is about giving you the freedom to build the architecture that best fits your business.Untethered Disaster Recovery and AvailabilityOne of the most significant shifts in this release is how we handle replication topologies. Historically, Smart DR—our native file replication engine—required the source and

My first three Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution blog posts focused on how and why Nutanix became a leader for enterprise containerization with some of the key features that got us there. In this post, our full stack story is more complete when networking and security are added as key differentiators for NKP—alongside simplicity and ease of use. Cloud native workloads with robust full stack networking and security thrive in production grade enterprise environments. No one is going to argue that. For us, these features are built in, and we’d expect nothing less as stated in this Cloud Native at Nutanix Is Fierce post. Networking and Security for ContainerizationWe’ve recently highlighted as others have that the competitive landscape for modern apps has become more focused on stateful containerization so that secure, persistent, and resilient data services are more critical than ever. This means networking and security for containerization should not expose any vulnerabilities f