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If you have an upcoming virtual instructor-led training (vILT) class scheduled or are thinking about enrolling in one, read on for our top 5 best tips to help you prepare.  vILT classes are a great way to receive detailed training from our expert instructors from the comfort of your home or office. With vILT, you can take advantage of:  Hands-on labs. Work with Nutanix products in a controlled environment and apply what you learned through detailed, interactive labs.  Q&A. Collaborate with your instructor and classmates and receive instant feedback.  Free exam voucher. Following the training, you’ll receive a voucher to complete the corresponding certification exam free of charge. If you’d like to learn more about available training and view class schedules, visit Nutanix University here.  How to Prepare for a vILT Class Once you’ve signed up for a class, it’s important to take the time to prepare for your upcoming training. By setting up an optimal learning environment you’ll

Want to know more about Nutanix Era? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further. Here is your complete guide to Nutanix Era training resources available through Nutanix University.  Now more than ever, data fidelity is mission critical for business operations. Databases are integral components for any computer architecture from healthcare to manufacturing, but they’re massive, complex, and time consuming to manage. Infrastructure downtime can be undesirable, but critical infrastructure can be restarted or fixed. Lost data, on the other hand, is gone forever.  With Nutanix Era, you can automate and simplify database administration with one-click database provisioning and lifecycle management. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great training resources to find out more.  Complete Nutanix Era Training Courses Getting Started | EraLearn more about the foundations of Nutanix Era that will give you the jump star

Learn about the top 6 things you should know when preparing for exam day.  You may have recently scheduled a certification exam, or maybe you’re planning on taking an exam in the future, so you might be wondering what you can expect on exam day. That’s why we’ve provided a list of the top 6 things you should know when preparing and setting up your location for exam day.Here are 6 essential things you should know when preparing for your exam:  Make sure you’re in a quiet, well-lit area with no other people besides yourself.  You should use one monitor during the exam. Any additional monitors will need to be stored away.  Clear your desk of all items before taking the exam. Be sure to remove any food items, paper & books, electronic items, such as a phone or tablet, etc. You may have a drink available during the exam.  Make sure your phone is off or store it outside of your exam location. You won’t be able to make or receive calls, texts, or emails during the exam.  If you need to us

The Nutanix Calm™ application orchestrator is the gateway to self-service for business users in the enterprise. Their journey starts with managing projects and users via Calm, launching applications, and managing routine operational tasks on day two.As a part of their daily routine, users rely on "Scaling" VMs in the application to support the varying demands of workloads running in the VMs. In Calm, the "Scale" profile action built into the blueprint is used to achieve horizontal scaling by deploying additional instances of a VM. However, until Calm 3.2.0, if the users wanted to vertically scale a VM, for example add more memory, or change any of the VM attributes on a running application, it was not directly possible and they had to go through an admin.As an example, the database admin (DBA) of a multi-tier application managed by Calm supporting retail transactions in an enterprise wants to upgrade the primary database with a higher configuration to support more transactions per seco

Do you want to know more about Nutanix Files? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Here is your one stop shop to all things Files.  With Nutanix Files, you can handle billions of files and tens of thousands of user sessions, scale your clusters, add more computing and/or memory to the file server VMs, and so much more. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using Files to its fullest potential! Take our Training CoursesGetting Started | FilesIn this free online course, we will give you an introduction into the foundations of Files that will give you the jump start you need to succeed!Data Services EssentialsLearn about data services and Nutanix data services technologies, specifically Nutanix Files, Nutanix Objects, and Nutanix Volumes.Nutanix Data Services AdministrationThis course teaches you the administrative skills needed to install, configure, manage, and upgrade thr

The Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX) certification tests candidates on their ability to create and deliver Cloud-Smart solutions that leverage the Nutanix stack for Private Cloud and the best offerings from our Public Cloud partners for hybrid services.Every NCX is an expert in their field and has the proven ability to design enterprise-scale solutions that support business-critical applications with service level agreements specified by business stakeholders.Recently we caught up with Akmal Waheed to talk about his experience earning this expert-level certification and to get his advice for other professionals looking to earn their NCX. Can you tell us a little bit about your IT background? I started my career as a technical support engineer for printers at Hewlett Packard. I was promoted to support laptops, and then to enterprise servers. That’s where I got exposure to virtualization, and really where my journey started. I moved on to VMware, where I joined as a technical support engin

Do you want to know more about Nutanix Calm? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further. Here is your complete guide to Nutanix Calm training resources available through Nutanix University.  In today’s fast-paced application development environment, we know it’s challenging to keep up with growing expectations. Siloed organizations and processes disrupt each other, resulting in cross-discipline overhead and slower delivery of business value.  With Nutanix Calm, you can simplify your IT infrastructure by automating routing operations and deploying complex applications in a single click, which allows you to bring applications and services to market faster. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great training resources to find out more.  Complete Nutanix Calm Training CoursesGetting Started | Calm In this free online course, we’ll give you an introduction into the foundations of Calm that will give you the jump

 Find out more about our exclusive Certification store and how you can get access to shop yourself. We recently launched a new line of Nutanix University Certification branded merchandise so you can display your certification with pride.  What can I purchase from the store? In the new store, you’ll have access to purchase polo shirts, hats, backpacks, and more. All items come with NCA, NCP, or NCM certification badges. Below is an example of the polo shirt available through the store. Adidas Men's Performance Polo How can I access the store? This store is available for those who complete Nutanix University certification exams. The store is accessible by invitation only. After successfully passing an exam, you’ll receive a Congratulations email from the exam proctor, PSI. This email will include the credentials you’ll need to purchase items from the store. If you no longer have the email you can contact certification support at university@nutanix.com for the credentials.  If you haven’t

Microsoft is excited to be a tier one diamond sponsor at the 2021 Global .NEXT Digital Experience conference between September 20-23. As organizations strive to support changing business needs and deliver innovative solutions faster, technology leaders are considering hybrid cloud transformation.  A hybrid strategy uncovers opportunities for cost optimization and workload modernization in the cloud, while also supporting on-premises datacenter consolidation efforts.  This transformation, however, creates challenges. Due to the vast number of interconnected services, business-critical applications, and prior on-premises investments, it can be daunting for even the most innovative IT experts. Together with Nutanix, Microsoft Azure is delivering solutions that meet you where you are today, delivering a path to unlock cloud transformation and make hybrid adoption easy. Join Microsoft and Nutanix at the Global .NEXT Digital Experience: Opening Keynote: Cloud, On Your TermsEric Lockard, Corp

Consistent high performance with bullet-proof reliability are two fundamental attributes that enterprises expect of infrastructure that hosts their business-critical applications. Performance and resiliency (along with scalability and simplicity) are inherent to the design of the Nutanix AOS™ software that is at the heart of Nutanix® Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). This is why Enterprises across the world run their business-critical applications on Nutanix HCI. We are continuously building on these strengths and further enhancing AOS performance and resiliency capabilities to enable customers to deploy more applications on Nutanix infrastructure with confidence. In this post I will cover key resiliency and performance focussed capabilities that we are introducing with AOS 6.Performance EnhancementsWe have been focused on pushing the performance envelope by delivering major architectural advancements in the past few major releases (you can read about these here). AOS 6 is no except

There has been an alarming recurrence of ransomware attacks in recent months across organizations from all industries ranging from healthcare to education. Gartner reports that Twenty-seven percent1 of malware incidents reported in 2020 can be attributed to ransomware. In a ransomware attack, cybercriminals infiltrate systems using known vulnerabilities and deploy malicious code to encrypt valuable data, holding it hostage until a ransom is paid. By disallowing access to critical business data, these attacks are often more catastrophic than data breaches. However, with the right preparation, monitoring, and swift mitigation practices in place, ransomware and other sophisticated attacks can be prevented.Nutanix’s vision is to make security invisible by bringing the same simplicity to security operations that Nutanix delivered to IT operations. We do this by building comprehensive security controls at every layer of the Nutanix® Cloud Platform to help you prevent, detect, and respond to

We are excited to announce a huge milestone for our pioneering HCI software, Nutanix® AOS and the release of Nutanix AOS 6.0. Nutanix AOS™ software has matured into the industry standard platform for virtualized datacenters, and now we’re helping our customers bridge into the hybrid cloud.Available today, AOS 6.0 introduces a set of groundbreaking new business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) features that enable the protection of large scale deployments with the help of long awaited capabilities including AHV™ Metro, the new DR Dashboard, end to end encryption, instant restore, and stretched networking.AHV Metro AvailabilityBCDR offerings have been core features in AOS right from the beginning. In AOS 6.0 we continue to innovate with the latest addition to the AHV hypervisor’s Metro Availability suite of functionality. Nutanix already released synchronous replication and cross cluster live migrate (CCLM) capabilities in an earlier release (you can read about those features her

Complete an online training course by Friday, September 17 and get a free certification exam! On September 15th, National Online Learning Day recognizes the benefits of online learning. But we’re going to celebrate all week by giving you a free exam voucher when you complete one of the following online training courses:  Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) Nutanix Data Services Administration (NDSA) Nutanix End User Computing Administration (NEUCA) Nutanix Database Management & Automation (NDMA) Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA) To take advantage of this special offer, complete one of the courses listed above by Friday, September 17. After you’ve completed the course, you’ll receive a free exam voucher to redeem by Friday, September 24. » Click here to get started.  Let us know in the comments below which training course you’re interested in taking!  Offer terms and conditions: Exam voucher will be assigned to student via their learning plan within 2

Last year Intel and Nutanix announced two innovations that unleashed the performance of NVMe storage on Nutanix AOS. To get some background on these, visit our blog here.Today we’ll be discussing further enhancements under development focused on our amazing Intel® Optane™ technology. It’s been a year since Intel® Optane™ SSDs become officially available in platforms such as the NX8170-G7, but we’re still hard at work to bring you every bit of performance we can. By default, Nutanix AOS runs in a flat storage tier when using most drive configurations. This storage layout was not taking advantage of some of the best qualities Intel Optane SSDs had to offer and I’ll explain why.Nutanix currently categorizes drives in one of three types: DAS-SATA, SSD-SATA, and SSD-PCIe. The SSD-PCIe category includes drives like our Intel P4510 and Intel Optane SSD. Nutanix uses a flat tier architecture with SSDs – and assuming all drives have sufficient space available, the IO is distributed in a round r

At Intel, we are hearing from customers that digital transformation is not only accelerating, but organizations are shifting from tactical modernization efforts to more strategic transformation.  Infrastructure is a key asset in this strategic transformation that can enable new insights from data, drive improved business outcomes, and enhance customer experience.But apps, together with the growth of data, are placing more demands on infrastructure.  Infrastructure should be based on a consistent technology foundation that enables apps and workloads to be optimally placed and managed, ensuring workload portability between infrastructure on premises, at the edge, and the instance offerings of various cloud providers - avoiding lock-in to single cloud provider and providing the flexibility needed to meet business objectives, as well as privacy and security requirements.HCI is often the best approach to modernize on premises and edge infrastructure to provide a foundation for your hybrid c

The Nutanix Calm™ application orchestrator offers a powerful way to enable self-service and manage applications across hybrid clouds. While we continue to add more features to Calm, this blog post highlights and explains a new feature which allows application owners to take Snapshots of and Restore the services in an application running on Nutanix® Cloud Platform.Snapshot and Restore are two basic operations that are used by datacenter admins and IT admins during routine maintenance of applications. Previously, IT admins had to rely on scripting Snapshots and restoring tasks inside the blueprint or by using native Snapshot/Restore capabilities provided by the underlying cloud platforms.Calm 3.3.0 introduces Snapshot and Restore tasks for multi-VM blueprints. Keeping customer feedback in mind, our aim is to make the lives of Calm users simpler by providing configurable Snapshot and Restore tasks along with the already powerful orchestration capabilities of Nutanix Calm.Having Snapshot a

As businesses digitally transform to meet new challenges and provide better customer experiences, their data is still growing exponentially. This means the places data is created and processed must also grow to match and handle this growth. With all of that data being created across so many different deployment locations, the problem of data blindness threatens data security and business continuity. To protect against these threats, businesses who live on data must attain greater visibility for all of their data so that they can protect it, store it properly, and monetize it to fuel growth.Data blindness is the inability to see what data your organization has created, how it's being stored, who is using it, and how they are using it. Nutanix created Nutanix Files™  with built-in data intelligence via rich metadata to solve the problem of data blindness. This includes metadata created that can tell administrators what type of data is being stored, the age of the data, and how it is bein

In April 2019, Nutanix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a global alliance to bring to market an integrated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution. HPE provides an industry leading, secure, reliable, and optimized platform to run the Nutanix® Enterprise Cloud Software. This solution enables businesses to deploy applications quickly, scale up and down easily as needs change, and is simple to manage. All this can lead to reduced costs, a more productive IT staff, and better-served end users. Together, HPE and Nutanix provide customers with more more choices to address organizations’ unique business challenges.This article highlights HPE’s presence at the Nutanix 2021 Global .NEXT Digital Experience, and provides an overview of the HPE and Nutanix HCI solution that includes the HPE ProLiant DX and HPE GreenLake Cloud Services.Nutanix 2021 Global .NEXT Digital ExperienceHPE is excited to be a Diamond sponsor at the Nutanix 2021 Global .NEXT Digital Experience. We have tw

View our new 3-day Enterprise Cloud Solution Design (ECSD) boot camp schedule and find out how to sign up.  We’re happy to announce a new schedule for our ECSD virtual boot camp. In this 3-day virtual boot camp, you’ll take a deep dive into Nutanix solutions and the Nutanix solution design methodology, which is based on the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) certification program. How do I know if the ECSD boot camp is right for me? The boot camp is designed for experienced and expert technologists, engineers, consultants, and solution architects who support the adoption of private and hybrid cloud in the enterprise. Attending the boot camp is also the first step towards earning your Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX) certification.To qualify for the boot camp, you’ll need to have: Documented and demonstrated ability to deliver enterprise-scale IT solutions that support business-critical applications (BCA) Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) or Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Inf

A Brief Introduction to Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)Today, HCI is mainstream and offers customers a cloud experience in their own datacenter, bringing efficiencies and agility for demanding IT requirements. AMD has been working closely with ecosystem partners, including Nutanix, in delivering fully tested and validated x86 solutions that offer outstanding performance, scalability, security and business value.Nutanix Acropolis™ software converges compute and storage to provide cloud-like infrastructure designed to run applications at any scale. Nutanix HCI software tightly integrates storage, networking, and compute resources into a powerful software-defined virtualized single-managed pool. The integration of storage, networking, and compute resources into a single infrastructure building block helps avoid manually stitching together separate discrete computing devices. It can also breakdown operational silos associated with a traditional 3-tiered architecture, eliminating the ne

Check out our new 2-day virtual instructor-led training classes and how you can sign up. We’re excited to announce a new class schedule for 2-day virtual instructor-led training for three of our popular training courses, including:  Nutanix Unified Storage Administration (NUSA) Nutanix Database Management & Automation (NDMA) Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA) With virtual instructor-led training, you’ll receive detailed instruction from one of our expert instructors all from the comfort of your home or office. You’ll also be able to take advantage of:  Hands-on labs. Work with Nutanix products in a controlled environment and apply what you learned through detailed, interactive labs.  Q&A. Collaborate with your instructor and classmates and receive instant feedback.  Free exam voucher. Following the training, you’ll receive a voucher to complete the certification exam free of charge.  Below you’ll find open class times for each training course, with mu

Nutanix X-Play is a simple low-code/no-code automation tool built into the Nutanix Prism management controller  that helps you automate routine operations and tasks, and provides the ability to auto-remediate issues that may occur.Using the X-Play tool, you can define a set of actions or a series of actions (called a “playbook”) based on a trigger, such as an event, alert, or an incoming webhook. The actions you can configure allow you to perform actions on your infrastructure, such as adding resources or running scripts. You can also integrate with APIs and 3rd party tools.With the release of Prism Central 2021.7 comes four new out of the box X-Play actions to make life as an IT admin a little bit easier.New Actions in pc.2021.7The 4 new actions are:Add to Category - add a VM, host, or cluster to one or more categoriesThe ability to add a VM, host, or cluster to a category automatically has been an anticipated feature and is a great addition to the action gallery. Categories allow you

Register for our latest Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm certification, plus learn about the limited-time offer to receive a free exam voucher.  The Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) is now open for registration! Earning this certification validates that you are comfortable with principles of automation, along with the automation of infrastructure and single/multi-tiered applications within Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm.  Pre-registration opens today and the first exam appointments start November 2. Click here to register.  PLUS take advantage of this limited time offer: When you complete the corresponding online training course in the next 90 days, Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA), you’ll receive a FREE exam voucher. In the Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA) training course you’ll learn the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm. It’s now available online to complete

Want to know more about Nutanix End User Computing (EUC)? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Here is your one stop shop to all things EUC. With Nutanix EUC solutions, you can run your virtual desktops and apps in the cloud or in the data center and connect users to applications from anywhere. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using your Nutanix EUC solution to its fullest potential! Take our Training Courses!Getting Started | FrameIn this free online course, we will give you an introduction into the foundations of Frame’s Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) that will give you the jump start you need to succeed!End User Computing EssentialsLearn about Nutanix's desktop-as-a-service solution, what it can do for a business, and the features and benefits it provides. This free online training course includes EUC Essentials, Nutanix Flow, and Xi Frame.Nutanix End User Computing

Digitalization is probably one of the most effective means for successfully mastering enormous social, ecological, and economic challenges. And since early 2020, the global pandemic has shown us what is absolutely essential both today and tomorrow when dealing with major problems; You need to be ready for the unexpected – meaning you must be able to adjust to new situations quickly and flexibly.Even though digitalization is a global phenomenon, customers must decide for themselves how they want to move forward. Over time the hybrid cloud has become the preferred cloud operating model because it is usually the best choice for the business world in terms of optimized costs. This fact encourages enterprises to pursue and develop innovatively. However, as digitalization continues to progress, IT infrastructures are becoming more diverse, and migrations to multicloud environments can now be called the new normal. Companies usually opt for a combination of on-premises and cloud (hybrid envir