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Hello community! 👋If your week involved a brilliant late-night workaround, a breakthrough "aha!" moment, or a browser tab you swear you'll get back to eventually, welcome home! You're in the right place.The Weekly Download is our ultimate roundup of the smartest, coolest things our community has been shipping, testing, and talking about over the last seven days. From deep technical deep-dives to practical, use-them-today tips, this week's highlights prove exactly what happens when curious people share what they're learning openly, generously, and with zero fluff.No algorithms. No noise. Just the genuine, community-powered good stuff that moved the needle this week.Let’s dig in! 👇Deploying minimal Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm 

This blog was authored by Steve McElfatrick, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer , NutanixAgentic AI introduces a new interaction model for enterprise data. Instead of humans carefully crafting queries and dashboards, AI agents now explore data autonomously—posing questions, refining queries, and acting on results in rapid iteration loops. This shift places new demands on the data platform: fast responses, elastic scale, clear semantics, and strong governance are no longer optional.Nutanix addresses these demands by combining its infrastructure platform with Dremio as the analytics and semantic layer. Together, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), Nutanix Objects Storage, and Dremio form a validated, full-stack data lakehouse designed for both modern analytics and the emerging requ

We are excited to share a major milestone in hybrid cloud operations: the Nutanix Cloud Manager™ (NCM) Solution 2.x! With NCM 2.0 live and NCM 2.1 coming soon, NCM 2.x fits your infrastructure, offering a medium footprint for up to roughly 10,000 VMs today, and an upcoming 3-node "Small" deployment in NCM 2.1 that brings high-availability to edge environments managing fewer than about 2,500 VMs. Here is a quick breakdown of how NCM 2.x helps you Build, Operate, and Govern across your entire estate:🛡️ Sovereign Control & Enterprise ResilienceNCM 2.x puts digital sovereignty first by deploying directly inside Nutanix Central, which means that Nutanix Central is now required for all NCM 2.x Deployments. This gives you greater ownership of your management infrastructure and a unified operating model. Cost Gov

This post was authored by Sarah Salis, HarfangLabHarfangLab provides layered security capabilities designed to help protect virtualized environments such as Nutanix infrastructure with Attack Surface Management (ASM), Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).  HarfangLab and Nutanix key benefits Unify protection and visibility through a single console.  Enhance analysts’ capabilities with a user-friendly interface and open access to detection rules and data.  Maintain VMs’ performance and clusters’ stability with a resource-efficient solution.  Support your organization’s efforts to meet cybersecurity requirements. Better protection and visibility of the workspace amid a growing attack surface A virtualized environment has multiple components to protect, including hypervisors, VMs, and workloads – each becoming a

This post was written by Jacob John Andathethu, Senior Product Manager NutanixAs many IT teams chart their course away from VMware, those migrating face a unique challenge: replacing their active-active resilience without compromising on performance. You shouldn't have to choose between the operational elegance of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the robust, enterprise-grade capabilities of external storage.With the release of AOS 7.5.1, the wait is finally over. This milestone delivers a significant advantage for customers running Nutanix AHV with external storage platforms such as Everpure FlashArray and Dell PowerFlex, thanks to the newly introduced support for Nutanix DR Synchronous Replication.In this blog,

Hey everyone 👋What did you discover this week?A clever workaround? A late-night breakthrough? A tab you definitely meant to come back to?You’re in the right place.The Weekly Download is where the community shows its work the smartest ideas, sharpest insights, and most useful finds shared by people building, testing, and figuring things out in real time.No fluff. No noise. Just the moments that made us all a little better this week.Let’s jump in 👇PCBRのContinuous BackupsからPrism Centralをリストアしてみる② ~リストア後の操作と状態確認~【AOS 7.5 AHV 11.0 PC 7.5】  PCBRを使用してPrism Centralを別のクラスターへ移行してみる【AOS 7.5 AHV 11.0 PC 7.5】 

Nutanix is proud to announce we’ve surpassed 1,500 Nutanix Ready validations. This isn't just a number; it’s a guarantee that your chosen tech stack "just works." Unlike standard "best-effort" support claims, Nutanix Ready is a joint engineering commitment. With 1,500+ validations, both Nutanix and the partner have verified that the solution works without issues before it hits your data center. Through the Technical Support Alliance Network (TSANet), Nutanix Ready partners are contractually committed to coordinated support. If an issue arises, Nutanix and the partner resolve it together, rather than leaving the customer to act as the middleman.  Learn more on Nutanix third party support policy. Partners are required to revalidate their solutions when Nutanix API versions change or major releases occur. This prevents the "it worked yesterday" problem, ensuring long-term architectural stability. Top-tier partnerships and joint validated

What if the way we’ve delivered desktops and applications for the last 20 years… no longer works? That’s the core theme of our latest episode of the Nutanix Community Podcast.Fresh off the energy of .NEXT, we sat down with Jaymes  and Raymond from Kasm to unpack what’s actually changing in end-user computing—and why so many teams are starting to rethink their approach.ResourcesKasm Technologies and Nutanix Partner to Deliver Cloud-Native Hybrid Workspaces Introducing Kasm Workspaces v1.18: Secure Access, Simplified Scaling, and Enhanced Streaming If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on 

Today, Nutanix announced support for Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid in public preview, giving customers a new way to use the  Azure  cloud service with on-premises infrastructure while preserving the performance, control and data residency benefits of running locally.Nutanix is proud to participate as an Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid launch partner, bringing this latest Microsoft innovation to Nutanix AHV. This integration gives Nutanix AHV customers a clear, operational path to adopt this new deployment model, one already trusted by roughly half of the Global 2000. What Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Does, and Why It MattersAzure Virtual Desktop  Hybrid extends the reach of the Azure Virtual Desktop service beyond Azure‑hosted infrastructure. With this new capability, organizations can:Run Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts on‑premises Use Azure for identity, ac

Hey community 👋Another week, another wave of smart ideas, clever fixes, and “wait…that actually works?” moments. This is where it all comes together.The Weekly Download is your shortcut to what the community’s been building, testing, and sharing real insights from real practitioners. No fluff, no filler, just the things worth your time.Let’s get into it 👇Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.6 をデプロイしてみる。Part-01：前提インフラの準備 ​@go.watanabe03-72705  When I back to Chicago, I feel it! .NEXT NUTANIX 2026 ​@Andrea Ribeiro  Nutanix Enterpri

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

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

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 

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 partners

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 

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, performanc

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 effic

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

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

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

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 ar

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 

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 

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 

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