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This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Certification exams can be stressful, so we’ve collected several resources that can help you approach your certification exam full of confidence! As you’re studying keep the rubber duck explanation theory in mind - Can you explain it clearly to a rubber duck? For more information on the rubber duck explanation theory click here.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Start with Exam Blueprint Guide   “People who are looking for certifications, no matter what level, put yourself in the mindset of applying the certification criteria to your daily work. Read the blueprints, read the documents and as you’re completing your daily tasks, try to apply that blueprint to your projects. What you’ll end up finding is that you’ll either find yourself working into a project that fits nicely with the certification or it makes it easy to stitch together projects to build a synthetic one

This week on the podcast I chat with Sachin Chheda about being ‘Cloud Smart’ what is means, the concept of applications attributes, the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index and lifecycle management. There is lot in this podcast, so with that let’s join the conversation.   Follow us on Twitter Sachin Chheda - twitter.com/StorSC Dwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7 Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Nation - twitter.com/NutanixNation Resources Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index Building a ‘Cloud Smart’ Strategy for your Applications: Part 1 Building a ‘Cloud Smart’ Strategy for your Applications: Part 2 Nutanix online community - bit.ly/1zJ4aAK Nutanix community blog - bit.ly/2ECb14M Nutanix Customer XTribe - bit.ly/3cMvK61 Nutanix user groups - bit.ly/NutanixUserGroup If you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps people find the show easier and will help me make improvemen

This post was authored by Rebeca Kinslow, from our content marketing team Wondering what people are doing to stay engaged during quarantine? Here’s a hint: One British book retailer reported a 400% rise in online sales week on week at the end of March... and they aren’t the only ones seeing these massive book sale upticks. Reading has become a staple during social distancing restrictions. If you’re looking to join the trend, or just need a new book to add to your list, we’ve got just the thing for you. We asked our customers for their best IT-related book recommendations, and they were so good, we had to share! From boosting emotional intelligence, to the power of morning routines, lessons from baseball, and the power of introverts, these recommended IT reads have something for everyone. Check out the top 10 book recommendations from your fellow IT professionals: Has your screen time been waaaay up lately, author Cal Newport thinks so? Accept the invitation to reconsider social

We’re happy to announce that the 2020 Enterprise Cloud Solution Design Boot Camp and NPX Design Review schedule is available now!     Currently, we have six Enterprise Cloud Solution Design Boot Camps and two Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Design Review Sessions scheduled around the globe for 2020.     Enterprise Cloud Solution Design Boot Camps   Prepare yourself to engage with enterprise customers and design Nutanix Enterprise Cloud solutions that deliver real business value, with one of these free, 4-day design boot camps. These boot camps are led by an onsite team of dedicated NPX-certified instructors who will focus on designing multi-hypervisor solutions capable of supporting enterprise-class applications according to clearly defined service level agreements.   The Enterprise Cloud Solution Design boot camps provide great immersive learning experiences that will change how you approach enterprise solution design and delivery.   Whether you are pursuing your NPX certification or lo

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Do you have a workforce that now needs to work from home?   If you do then you may need to scale up your environment, add more desktops, or simply deploy a DaaS solution, or you may be looking to scale up if you’re already running Nutanix. If you’re new to Nutanix, we will walk you through how to get started, right from unpacking the box and racking a block, all the way up to Prism configuration. And finally, if you’re looking to deliver desktops as a service to your end users, we have a comprehensive training on Xi Frame that covers everything from connecting infrastructure to delivering applications. Whichever route you choose to take, you’ll find useful information in the new pair of EUC courses from Nutanix University.    Delivering Desktops to End Users with Xi Frame   This course provides descriptions and instructions for all the different options that are available

In the first post in this series I compared the actual Usable Capacity between Nutanix ADSF vs VMware vSAN on the same hardware. We saw approximately 30-40% more usable capacity delivered by Nutanix. Next we compared Deduplication & Compression technologies where we learned Nutanix has outright capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance advantages over vSAN. Then we looked at Erasure Coding where we learned the Nutanix implementation (called EC-X) is both dynamic & flexible by balancing performance and capacity efficiencies in real time. Next we switched it up and discussed how both solutions can scale capacity & we learned while vSAN has numerous constraints which make scaling less attractive, Nutanix allows customers to scale storage capacity by adding individual drives, HCI node/s or storage only nodes without manual intervention. But all these advantages Nutanix has over vSAN don’t mean a thing unless the platform is also highly resilient to failures.

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Mike McGhee Technical Marketing Engineer about our upcoming release of AOS 5.17 and some of the new features - like Sync support for AHV, NearSync for Support for Metro (ESXi), network segmentation for replication and much more. There is lots to get excited about in this release, enjoy this episode! I hope you and your family are safe. Lets do what we can to help those in our local communities.   Follow us on Twitter Mike McGheeDwayne LessnerAngelo LucianiNutanix Nation Resources Nutanix online communityNutanix community blogXTribeNutanix user groups If you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps people find the show easier and will help me make improvements in the series by seeing what you have to say. Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

This post was authored by Devon Helms, Director of Product Marketing - Storage Services Simplicity is included with Nutanix Files out of the box. Sometimes that means making management and administrative tasks easier so that application and use case owners can self-manage file storage. Other times it means extending control to end users and empower self-service. In a world where more people are working remotely, self-service becomes even more important as the remote user may not have ready access to office resources. A great example of this is the self-service restore feature of Nutanix Files. Nobody is perfect, we all make mistakes. When it comes to a mistake such as damaging or deleting files accidentally, the ability to rapidly recover a known good copy of the file can prevent a minor annoyance from becoming a major problem. Typically recovering a file would require the involvement of trouble tickets, storage or backup administrators, and hours or days of wait time. But with Nutanix

This post was authored by Dwayne Lessner, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer AOS 5.17 in my mind should be officially named the “Disaster Recovery” release. This release provides many great updates for customers using Nutanix Leap: DR orchestration to keep their business running. This release gives more flexibility to protection topologies, reduces system overhead, gives users more choice and reduces recovery point objective times. Single Prism Central Support In past releases in order to perform DR orchestration between two different sites you would have to have Prism Central (PC) at each location forming an availability zone. An availability zone in Nutanix is what one PC manages as a fault domain. This makes good sense in large environments if you were to failover, you would still need a management plane to initiate the action. For smaller sites that want to utilize leap for deploying a PC VM at each site can take of a lot of resources. So now with 5.17 you can replicate between

Check out what’s new from Nutanix University!   We’ve updated our core training courses and certification exams to align with AOS 5.15, including: Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) training Advanced Administration & Performance (AAPM) training Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) v5.15 beta exam Read below for highlights of each new release or visit the Nutanix University learning platform and get started today.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) training course This course is the foundation of your Enterprise Cloud learning path. It explores the deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, and covers topics such as securing and managing a cluster, health monitoring and alerts, networking, data resilience, cluster maintenance, tips for solving common problems, and more. This course is offered as a traditional instructor-led training course with dates and locations – and virtual options! – o

This post was authored by Laura Jordana Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix We are excited to introduce Nutanix Test Drive 2.1, which now allows you to test drive Xi Leap, our easy to use, no-install, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution. Nutanix Test Drive is a way for you to try out the Nutanix platform easily, through your web browser. Recently, we announced our new and improved Test Drive 2.0 running on Google Cloud Platform, which showcases 3 areas of the Nutanix portfolio - managing your virtual infrastructure with Prism and AOS, monitoring and planning with Prism Pro, and easily deploying and publishing applications with Calm. For more details, click here. With Test Drive 2.1, we have introduced a new tile, My Recovery, which allows you to explore Xi Leap. Xi Leap is natively integrated with AOS and Prism and utilizes Xi Cloud, Nutanix’s subscription-based public cloud services platform that features guaranteed SLAs. Test Drive 2.1 With DRaaS You can get started wit

Who doesn’t love discounts? Now through September 30th, 2020, the Nutanix certification exams are just $99! Take advantage of this limited time offer and get these hot certifications added to your resume:   Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) Nutanix Certified Advanced Professional (NCAP)   Click here to download your discount code. This code can be used for either the NCP or NCAP exam – or both!   What’s next after you get your discount code?   If you need to brush up on your skills, visit the Nutanix University learning platform to start studying today!   If you feel prepared, choose your certification, enter your discount code, and schedule your exam here.     Good luck!   © 2020 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product, feature and service names mentioned herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only

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This week is another quick take, and I chat with Chad Dorr, senior system administrator at a healthcare provider and also a Nutanix Technology champion and Nutanix user group champion. We talk about VDI using Citrix, challenges or surprises that the current COVID19 situation has raised and how he is generally dealing with the new distributed workforce. As I mentioned last week on the podcast, I hope you and your family are safe. Lets do what we can to help those in our local communities.   Follow us on Twitter Chad Dorr - twitter.com/thorenx Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Nation - twitter.com/NutanixNation Resources Nutanix online community - bit.ly/1zJ4aAK Nutanix community blog - bit.ly/2ECb14M XTribe - https://joinxtribe.influitive.com Nutanix user groups - bit.ly/NutanixUserGroup   If you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps people find the show easier and will hel

The live version of the new NCAP 5.10 exam is out now! Advance your career by adding the NCAP certification to your resume. The NCAP certification validates your ability to perform advanced administrative tasks and optimize both virtualized workloads and infrastructure components in an AOS 5.10 implementation. It also confirms that you are capable of deploying, administering, optimizing, and securing Nutanix AOS 5.10 nodes, blocks and clusters; and can use Prism Central and Calm to centrally monitor, manage, and troubleshoot multi-cluster deployments.  Objectives covered in the NCAP 5.10 exam include: Administration and Planning Storage Management Data Protection Security Workload Management Administering Prism Central Prepare for your exam by enrolling in the NCAP learning plan in the Nutanix University learning platform. The learning plan will guide you through the exam blueprint guide, training, and practice exams all the way to exam registration.   Enroll in the NCAP learning plan

What do Russia, Paraguay, and Tunisia have in common? Any guesses?   They all have at least one person who has a Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) certification. Since 2018, the NCP program has exploded to have NCP holders in 89 countries and is growing more every day! This is all thanks to the support of our community!     Check out more stats we discovered in the Certification Chronicles infographic!     © 2020 Nutanix, Inc.  All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product, feature and service names mentioned herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). This post may contain links to external websites that are not part of Nutanix.com. Nutanix does not control these sites and disclaims all responsibility for the content or accuracy of any external site. Our decision to

This week on the podcast we have a Nutanix Technology Champion round table discussion. We have community members Mike Dent, Wouter Kursten, Rene Bigler, Dave Strum and Timon Watson. We wanted to share some thought on working from home, tips to consider, supporting customers from home, what has worked and rapidly scaling infrastructure to meet the growing work from home demand.   Follow us on Twitter Mike Dent - twitter.com/mikedent13 Wouter Kursten - twitter.com/Magneet_nl Rene Bigler - twitter.com/dready73 Dave Strum - twitter.com/Strumbelievable Timon Watson Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Nation - twitter.com/NutanixNation Resources Nutanix's Response to COVID-19 - is.gd/NVrZWn Nutanix online community - bit.ly/1zJ4aAK Nutanix community blog - bit.ly/2ECb14M XTribe - joinxtribe.influitive.com/ Nutanix user groups - bit.ly/NutanixUserGroup If you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of cho

This blog was authored by Sachin Chheda, Rodney Fite, and Pat Heinrich This blog is a continuation of the discussion on infrastructure and cloud choices. This is the second of the two-part blog series. In the first blog of the series, we covered the approaches for IT and applications teams to align their apps and services to infrastructure/cloud choices. This second blog of the two-part series will cover how various options for infrastructure and cloud align with the different application attributes. Let’s start with a quick recap of the IT infrastructure and cloud choices. Traditional infrastructure — Servers and storage with network connectivity that may or may not leverage virtualization. However, traditional infrastructure lacks basic cloud tenets. Cloud — Infrastructure, Platform, or Software delivered ‘as-a-Service’ to end-users with a mechanism to provision, use or consume, and meter for reporting or chargeback. This includes an extensive set of APIs and other hooks for automati

A few months ago, we released the first in our new series of free, online training courses covering the core Nutanix Cloud Solutions. Today we are excited to release the next three:Nutanix Consolidated Storage Nutanix Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OperationsEach of these courses is made up of two parts. First, you'll dig into product training that introduces elements of the Nutanix product portfolio. Then, you’ll explore how the solution ties them all together.Check out these new courses, or catch up on the previous releases, in the new Nutanix University learning platform.Nutanix Consolidated StorageIn this course, you’ll learn how Nutanix can help you deal with the ever-growing problem of unstructured data. Among other things, we’ll talk through what the storage landscape is like today; why you should deploy fabrics and not silos; and how Nutanix Files, Nutanix Volumes, and Nutanix Objects address storage needs across the spectrum of storage types

This Post was authored by Fred Feirn Digital Photography and Graphic Design Teacher Serving nearly 9,000 students, the White Bear Lake Area School District is at the forefront of educational excellence. We believe technology can do more than simply improve course delivery. It can transform the way courses are taught, and how students learn, by providing access to education anytime, anywhere, on any device. One of our most successful initiatives has been our 1:1 technology program, implemented four years ago. Each student was given a Chromebook to use throughout the school year, enabling them to work on course curricula at school and away from campus. My courses of Digital Photography and Graphic Design were historically taught in a classroom with networked computers. As the popularity of social media and photography grew, more students became interested in photography techniques, and enrollment in my classes expanded. The class also met the state art standard for high school graduat

Welcome back to the podcast, this week is another Nutanix QuickTake with Danielle Tomakin and Christie Vaughan. Today we talk about Nutanix user groups and Xtribe. These are two great community programs that connect you to the broader Nutanix community.   Follow us on Twitter Christie Vaughan - twitter.com/ChristayVaughan Danielle Tomakin - twitter.com/TomakinDanielle Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Nation - twitter.com/NutanixNation Resources Nutanix online community - bit.ly/1zJ4aAK Nutanix community blog - bit.ly/2ECb14M Xtribe - https://customerxtribe.influitive.com/ Nutanix user groups - bit.ly/NutanixUserGroup If you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps people find the show easier and will help me make improvements in the series by seeing what you have to say. Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google  

One of the ways I learn is by joining webinars. Even if its technology that might not be on my radar at the moment, I make the time to engage in discussions and learn about 'what’s new' or learn 'new ways' to do things. This month we have a number of really interesting webinars available. Join one or join them all, one thing is for sure, you will come away more knowledgeable! Check out these webinars; Simple, Affordable, No-Install Disaster Recovery: That’s Xi Leap Mar 4, 2020, 10:00 AM PT Businesses are increasingly dependent upon IT for competitive advantage while threats against IT are ever-increasing. Business-critical applications have become the lifeblood of the enterprise even though the gap is widening between this reliance on IT services and a company’s ability to protect it. The cost of building and maintaining a secondary datacenter for disaster protection is sometimes cost-prohibitive. Coddling together a patchwork of legacy technologies is often the best some companies can

In this series, we’ve learned Nutanix provides more usable Capacity along with greater capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance when using Deduplication & Compression as well as Erasure Coding. We’ve also learned Nutanix provides far easier and superior storage scalability and greatly reduces the impact from Drive failures. We then switched gears and covered heterogeneous cluster support and learned how critical this is to an HCI platform’s ability to scale and deliver a strong ROI without rip and replace or the creation of silos. In this part of the blog series, we cover each product’s I/O Path for write operations with mirroring (a.k.a FTT1 for vSAN and RF2 for Nutanix). I will be publishing a separate detailed comparison between deploying software-defined storage “In-Kernel” vs “Controller VM”, this post will focus on how the traffic traverses and utilises the cluster. Let’s assume a brand new 4 node cluster for both vSAN and Nutanix ADSF and a single VM with

In this series, we’ve learned Nutanix provides more usable Capacity along with greater capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance when using Deduplication & Compression as well as Erasure Coding. We’ve also learned Nutanix provides far easier and superior storage scalability and has greatly reduce impact from Drive failures. In this part, we cover heterogeneous cluster support as this is critical to an HCI platform's ability to scale and ensure ever changing customer requirements are being met/exceeded. Hardware capacity/performance continues to advance at a great pace if customers are forced to use uniform (homogeneous) clusters it will likely result in a higher TCO and slower ROI. That’s bad enough but it also means customers will not get to take advantage of the performance and density advantages of newer hardware without creating silos which lead to more inefficiency. After all we don’t want to be in the same position where we need to “rip and replace” hardwar

In the first post in this series, I compared the actual Usable Capacity between Nutanix ADSF vs VMware vSAN on the same hardware. We saw approximately 30-40% more usable capacity delivered by Nutanix. Next, we compared Deduplication & Compression technologies where we learned Nutanix has outright capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance advantages over vSAN. Then we looked at Erasure Coding where we learned the Nutanix implementation (called EC-X) is both dynamic & flexible by balancing performance and capacity efficiencies in real-time. vSAN, on the other hand, has a rudimentary “All or nothing” approach which can lead to higher front end impact and does not dynamically apply Erasure Coding to the most suitable data. Now let’s learn how both platforms can scale storage capacity: Here we see from a typical “tick-box” comparison that both platforms can add individual drives or additional nodes to scale capacity. As you’ve probably gathered from my previous f