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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 compl

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  ​

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 l

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 RSVPKansas City NUG Thursday, February 12 RSVPGovernment NUG Thursday, February 19

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 d

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

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 on

This post was authored by Catalogic/CloudCasa - Teck Siang Wong - Solutions Architect, Nutanix - Vishnu Prasad - Nutanix Ready Engineer, Nutanix - Jose Gomez - Director, Technical Marketing Engineering, NKP and Cloud NativeThe Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) offers a production-grade Kubernetes distribution designed for enterprises that need scalability, reliability, and simplicity in hybrid or on-prem environments.While NKP streamlines cluster management and lifecycle operations, data protection remains a critical responsibility — especially when you’re running stateful workloads such as databases or business-critical services.CloudCasa by Catalogic, a Kubernetes-native, SaaS or self-hosted data protection solution, is now certified to work seamlessly with NKP.This certification ensures you can confidently deploy CloudCasa to sa

This post was authored by Jasmine Punia - Senior Product Manager, Palo Alto Networks and Aniket Daptari - Sr. Director of Product Management, NutanixThe attack surface for today’s enterprises is incredibly heterogeneous and dynamic. Applications and data are in constant motion, spanning public clouds, private data centers, and edge locations. Users connect from anywhere.For security leaders, this environment has led to an explosion in not only operational complexity, but in many cases, uncertainty: where do you even begin? The security ecosystem has become vast and complex. Point solutions accumulate to address specific gaps, yet each adds another interface, another policy language, and another integration to manage. However well-intentioned, this sprawl can lead directly to fractured visibility, overlapping tools, and operational fatigue.Elevate Perimeter Protec

This post was authored by Matthew Quill, Senior Principal Technology Alliances Manager at F5 NetworksNutanix and F5 have built a relationship in recent years that reflects how enterprise IT is changing. That alliance. focused on a shared vision of simplifying the ever-increasing complexity of IT management, continues to grow and expand in scope.The partnership was originally centered on the Nutanix Cloud Platform and F5 BIG-IP and F5 Distributed Cloud Services. It enabled enterprises to migrate to a cost-effective virtualization platform and to layer in security controls as those customers shifted workloads onto Nutanix infrastructure. (The journey behind the relationship is discussed in this

This post was written by Mark Polin, Senior Solutions Architect, Product Management Alliances at Veeam SoftwareOn May 7, 2025, at the Nutanix .NEXT user conference, Pure Storage announced a new solution developed with Nutanix that enables Nutanix AHV hypervisor to use the Pure Storage platform for storage provisioning. Veeam, with its long-standing alliance relationships with both Pure Storage and Nutanix, has a proven track record of delivering cyber resilience solutions. This new offering combines Veeam Data Platform with the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution and Pure Storage FlashArray to provide an end-to-end integrated solution that offers robust data resilience, high-performance storage, and streamlined infrastructure management to protect and manage your organization’s most critical workloads.Nutanix AHV provides a simple and efficient virtualization solution that eliminates the need

How do you secure modern Nutanix environments without adding operational complexity?In this episode of the Nutanix Community Podcast, Dwayne sits down with Jeff Engel from Check Point to explore real-world cloud security for Nutanix, including CloudGuard integration, Zero Trust architecture, microsegmentation, and AI security.Jeff breaks down how Check Point CloudGuard works natively with Nutanix, how service insertion enables deep traffic inspection, and how dynamic security policies driven by Prism Central categories eliminate manual firewall changes and painful change control.You’ll learn:How CloudGuard for Nutanix secures east-west and north-south traffic What Zero Trust actually means in production environments How microsegmentation improves security without breaking workflows How to secure AI traffic and modern workloads Why consistent policy, automation, and price-performance matter at scaleWhet

Hello community 👋If your week included a clever workaround, a late-night “aha” moment, or a tab you thought you’d come back to — you’re in the right place. The Weekly Download is where we round up the smartest things the community has been shipping, testing, and talking about.From deep technical dives to practical tips you can use immediately, this week’s highlights show what happens when curious people share what they’re learning — openly, generously, and without fluff.No algorithms. No noise. Just the good stuff that moved the conversation forward this week.Let’s dig in 👇Nutanix 攻略 - 系列文章 (更新 網管人 239 期技術專欄) ~ 不自量力 の Weithenn] ​@WeithennWang  依循最佳建議作法，打造高效 Nutanix 叢集

This post was authored by Allan Waters, Director, Product Marketing NutanixNutanix, Cisco UCS®, and Intel® Xeon® 6 Work Together for a Full Stack, Unified Enterprise PlatformModern IT teams are managing more complexity than ever. The number of applications is growing, data volumes are expanding rapidly, and AI is introducing new types of workloads that span from core data centers to the edge.To keep up, many organizations are adopting hybrid multicloud strategies. These approaches offer the flexibility to run workloads where they make the most sense—whether that’s in a branch office, a central data center, or the public cloud.But with that flexibility comes new challenges. Hybrid environments often involve a mix of hardware, software, and compute resources spread across different locations. Each layer needs to work together seamlessly. Infrastructure must be resilient, software must provide a co

We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Nutanix Technology Champions. An extraordinary group of visionaries, builders, creators, and advocates shaping the future of enterprise cloud computing.This cohort isn’t just smart.They’re generous with their expertise.They lead, teach, challenge, and create belonging at the same time elevating the Nutanix ecosystem in ways that ripple far beyond technical excellence.Welcome to a new year of innovation, collaboration, and inspired leadership. ✨🌍 Who Are the 2026 Champions?This year’s champions come from every corner of the globe and representing cloud, networking, virtualization, DevOps, security, platform engineering, and everything in between. You’ll find:✔ Hybrid cloud architects✔ Kubernetes explorers✔ Automation ninjas✔ AI experimenters✔ Community mentorsThey are curious minds and bold builders who cross boundaries, break silos, and push what’s possible within ente

Hey Nutanix community — welcome back! 🚀It’s time for another edition of The Weekly Download, your weekly hit of smart ideas, clever fixes, and “wait… that’s awesome” moments from across the Nutanix universe.Every week, builders, operators, and problem-solvers like you turn the community into a living lab — experimenting with Kubernetes, untangling tricky edge cases, sharing battle-tested tips, and generally making the rest of us better along the way.We’ve rounded up the conversations, posts, and insights that sparked the most interest this week — the ones worth bookmarking, sharing, or diving into with your next cup of coffee ☕.Alright, let’s get into it. Here’s what lit up the community this week ⚡Unable to register PE in PC due to Blacklist  The cluster is blacklisted on prism central ​

Enterprise AI doesn’t have to be complex — learn how Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.5 helps organizations deploy secure, scalable AI without the hype.AI is moving fast — and for many enterprises, it’s becoming overwhelming.In this episode of the Nutanix Community Podcast, host Dwayne sits down with Mike Bermond, Technical Marketing Evangelist at Nutanix, to cut through the noise and talk about what practical enterprise AI really looks like today.They break down the latest Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.5 release and explore how organizations can deploy large language models securely, simplify identity and access management, improve GPU efficiency, and use AI Labs to test real-world use cases — without getting lost in hype or complexity.More importantly, this conversation tackles AI fatigue head-on, offering grounded advice on where to start, how to prioritize quick wins, and why keeping AI simple is often the smartest strategy.If you’re responsible for AI, infra

This post was authored by Sean Donahue, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager NutanixThe wait is over! Omnissa Horizon 8 on Nutanix AHV is now Generally Available (GA), and this release is a big leap forward for Enterprise EUC in choice, flexibility and performance.If Limited GA (LGA) was the amuse bouche, GA is the full plate. With this milestone, Horizon on AHV moves closer than ever to achieving feature parity with Horizon on vSphere, providing customers with the flexibility they’ve been asking for without sacrificing enterprise capabilities.GA introduces a robust set of features that make Horizon on AHV a true enterprise-ready solution. Here are the highlights:Enhanced Refresh Workflow (Recovery Points)Adds recovery point capability for desktop refresh operations. This simplifies rollback and remediation, managing downtime, and improving resilience for business continuity. It’s like havi

I am thrilled to unveil this year’s top bloggers from our Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC) community! These incredible advocates poured their expertise, creativity, and passion into content that informed, inspired, and fueled discussions across the ecosystem.Our algorithm scored posts on quality, depth, cadence, and community impact and after another competitive 9-month challenge running from February 1 to October 1, 2025, we’re proud to recognize the three standout contributors who rose to the top:🥇 1st Place: ​@TomoMartin (https://tomomartin.hateblo.jp)Keigo consistently published insightful, technically rich content that helped demystify evolving Nutanix innovations. His thought leadership, practical explanations, and steady publishing rhythm set this year’s benchmark.🥈 2nd Place

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. DecemberPittsburgh NUG Monday, December 15Nebraska NUG Monday, December 15 JanuaryWisconsin NUG Thursday, January 15 RSVPSan Antonio NUG Thursday, January 22

Hey Kubernetes crew! 👋We all know Nutanix makes HCI sing, but who’s out there orchestrating containers like a DJ at .NEXT after-hours with Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)?Drop a 🐙 in the replies if you’re:Running NKP in prod (or dev, or your homelab palace) Auto-scaling GPU workloads like a boss Using NKP + KubeVirt to run VMs inside pods (yes, really) Just deployed your first CSI volume and yelled “IT WORKS!”We want YOU on the spotlight reel!The Nutanix Community Team is cooking up:🎙️ Guest spots on the Nutanix Community Podcast📸 Member Spotlight blog posts (your setup, your war stories, your swag wall)Reply below with:NKP + [your coolest use case] Example: “NKP + ArgoCD + 300 AI inference pods on AHV”We’ll DM the top stories for a 15-min chat. No slides

Enterprise Containerization, it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner now. For IT organizations, this fare is now mainly on the menu for modernization efforts as well as repatriation to stateful app containerization on premises. I discussed this in my last post regarding VMs and Containers running on the same platform here. The alternatives from vendors are changing super fast and it’s more complex than ever with side dishes for virtualization.Alternatives for IT Leaders Until NowIT leaders have been deploying production-grade con

 Edit 11/18/2025 - This survey is closedHello from the Nutanix Design Team: We Want Your Prism Central Superpowers!Phase 1 of our Prism Central Experience Survey gave us incredible insights—thanks to you. Your feedback helped us zero in on the features, fixes, and UI improvements that matter most. Now we're kicking things up a notch.Welcome to Phase 2.And yes… this is where things get even better.We’re diving deeper into how you use Prism Central, what delights you, what slows you down, and what would make the experience feel downright magical. The survey takes about 5–10 minutes, and every answer genuinely shapes the next evolution of the product.As a thank-you for going above and beyond, everyone who completes the survey gets a gift card.Because community-powered feedback should always come with perks.👉 Take the Phase 2

Hey there, Nutanix crew! 👋Welcome to another drop of The Weekly Download—your go-to boost of community smarts, straight from the global hive mind of builders, tinkerers, and tech trailblazers. Each week, we round up the best of what you’ve been sharing—brilliant how-tos, clever scripts, thoughtful discussions, and those “aha!” moments that make our community hum with innovation.So grab your favorite beverage ☕, take five, and catch up on the conversations and creations shaping the future of enterprise tech—powered by you. ⚡DR Testing Best Practices with Nutanix Build Confidence   ​@mikedent  NAI 2.4 の推論エンドポイントむけデモ アプリを NKP で起動してみる。 - NTNX＞日記 ​@go.watanabe

In this episode of the Nutanix Community Podcast, we sit down with longtime Nutanix Technology Champion and NCX-certified expert Todd Burris - ​@trb48  to talk about what it really means to build smarter.Todd shares his journey from healthcare IT to mastering Nutanix design at scale — including how he tackled the intense NCX certification process, the power of teamwork and mentorship, and how he’s using APIs and automation to simplify complex operations across global environments.We also dive into workload availability, validated designs, and the beauty of data-driven decision-making (with a few laughs along the way). Whether you’re an aspiring NCX, a seasoned admin, or just curious how real-world practitioners are innovating with Nutanix, this episode is packed with practical insights and inspiration.ResourcesTodd Burris