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Uploading an image to XiLog in to the Xi portal and upload the VM-Series kernel-based VM(KVM) qcow2 image. (This image should be available on the Palo Alto website). Select Explore > Images, then select Add Image. Select Image File, then + Add File. Add the VM-Series KVM image from your computer and select Save.NOTE: If you are unable to upload the image from your computer, use the URL method and provide the image URL to upload the image.Creating Subnets on XiTwo VPCs (Production and Test) are available by default in the Xi Cloud Services portal. You can’t add new VPCs in Xi Cloud Services, but you can create virtual subnets in the VPCs for hosting VMs, and configure policies to secure them. You can update the VPCs to specify settings such as DNS and DHCP.Nutanix will create subnets in the production VPC, since post-failover (Planned/Unplanned) VMs are brought up in production VPC. However, if you need a subnet dedicated for a virtual firewall, you would need to create a subnet by f

Nutanix customers can set up a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection to connect their on-prem datacenter or remote user device to Xi Cloud Services using a Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewall. A VPN solution enables secure communication between your on-prem Prism Central instance and the production Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Xi Cloud Services for replication, and allows users to access the applications running in the cloud.This blog will cover the following topics:Internet traffic path from a VM running on Xi for a single legged vPAN design Configuring policies and rerouting Internet/VM traffic from a Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual appliance on Xi to an on-prem Palo Alto Networks firewallDesignNutanix recommends the following design for the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual appliance:A single-legged design with one inside interface and one management interface. The management interface can have a public IP assigned to it if you need to manage the firewall by us

With log4j in the news, I thought we would bring on a couple of security and networking folks from Nutanix to talk about it. This week we have Eric Hammersley and Jason Burns who will give you some insight into how we are managing the log4j vulnerability. Flow Microsegmentation Test Drive Flow Tech TopX: Datacenter Security with Flow Security Advisory: Apache log4j2 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) Security AdvisoriesIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google 

The Nutanix X-Play™ tool is a simple low-code/no-code automation feature 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. For example, you can set up a playbook so when an alert about a VM’s memory being constrained is detected, the playbook can automatically add a specified amount of memory to the VM.But what if you didn’t want this to automatically happen, but rather you wanted to route through an approval workflow so that an admin would have to approve the change before the memory was added? In this video, we give you a walkthrough how to set up an integrated automation process with ServiceNow describing exactly this.With the latest Test Drive update, you can set up a similar flow using our demo t

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Matt Slotten, who has done some really impressive work with moving a portion of our test drive environment on-prem. Think of it as Nutanix running on Nutanix! Dwayne and Matt dive deep into what was involved, what were some of the challenges and the surprising results. Oh and there is an interesting French fry story that both Dwayne and Matt share.Nutanix Test Drive Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Nutanix community blog Nutanix user groupsIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

Today we join Theresa Payton, former White House CIO, Leading Cybersecurity Expert and CEO & Author, Fortalice Solutions, and Monica Kumar, SVP Marketing and Cloud at Nutanix. The pair unpack potential cyber threats on both the public and private sector. This is part of our look back series at .NEXT 2021.Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Nutanix community blog Nutanix user groups Security Operations, Monitoring, and PlanningIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

This week we join Join Wendy Pfeiffer, Chief information officer for Nutanix, as she quizzes a distinguished .Next panel on the myths around cloud technology. Can employees operate as effectively from home as they did in the office? Is cyber security a bigger concern on the public cloud or on-prem? This is part of our look back series at .NEXT 2021.Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Nutanix community blog Nutanix user groupsIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

This blog was authored by Michael Haigh Technical Marketing Engineer NutanixAt KubeCon North America 2019 in San Diego, JFrog announced the availability of the JFrog Container Registry, which enables users to securely store, manage, and control their Docker containers and Helm charts, at no cost. Container registries are one of the most fundamental components for building Cloud Native applications and enabling Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery in your environment, so it’s critical to choose a proven, secure, and reliable platform like JFrog. JFrog has become a household name for many cloud-native enterprises, and is an industry leader in CI/CD and DevOps with its large portfolio of products, including JFrog Artifactory.Pairing JFrog with Nutanix Karbon, gives you a production grade container registry in minutes, enabling your business to quickly react to changing landscapes. In this post, we will cover a couple of pre-requisites, we’ll then deploy JFrog Container registry on

We continue our look back at our .NEXT user conference and Today we join Thomas Cornely, SVP Product Portfolio , as he addresses the vision of making cloud complexity invisible. Saveen Pakala, VP Product Management,, talks elastic disaster recovery and Finally Anindo Sengupta, Sr Director Product Management as he discusses the customers experience with the Unified Hybrid Multicloud. Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions 6 .NEXT Breakout Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss! Rethinking Storage For A Data Centric World Building an Agile Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with Solutions from Nutanix and IntelIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

This blog series provides the new feature updates that have been GA’d through the Nutanix Files 4.0 release.This is the second of four blogs to teach you about the new features in Nutanix Files 4.0.We will update the other blogs as they are posted:Blog 1: Smart Tiering Blog 3: Performance Improvements Blog 4 Smart DR EnhancementsNutanix Files has long been integrated into the core Nutanix AOS software. File server deployments, share creation, upgrades, node expansions, and other core services are delivered using the same interface. This integration has been key to keeping Nutanix Files simple and intuitive so that any administrator, whether they are an expert in Network Attached Storage (NAS) or not, can easily manage Files and their entire Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) environment.While being tightly coupled to AOS is beneficial, differing product release cycles, along with delivering a file server centric interface, has driven a project to partially decouple Nutanix Fil

This blog series provides the new feature updates that are GA through the Nutanix Files 4.0 release.This is the first of four blogs to teach you about the new features in Nutanix Files 4.0.We will update the other blogs as they are posted:Blog 2: New GUI Blog 3: Performance Improvements Blog 4 Smart DR EnhancementsAdministrators with large scale Network Attached Storage (NAS) environments frequently look for ways to improve storage efficiency, ease of administration, and lower cost.  With Nutanix Files 4.0, we’ve added a native tiering framework, called “Smart Tier”, to help address these requirements. Smart Tier enables you to move cold or rarely used data to lower cost storage while maintaining a single namespace. Data can be tiered to any qualified S3 API compliant target, including on-premises solutions or in the public cloud.Smart Tier enables hybrid multicloud environments for unstructured data, whether it’s for long term archiving, cost saving or providing a virtually limitless

Over the next few weeks will be looking back on our user conference .NEXT and share keynotes and panel discussions. On today's podcast we have Rajiv Mirani, Chief Technology Officer, Ketan Shah, VP Product Management and Luke Congdon, Sr Director Product Management, they discuss the new AOS 6 capabilities including updates on enterprise AHV.Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Announcing Nutanix AOS 6 Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6 Nutanix and Azure—hybrid made easy AOS 6 Advances Performance and Resilience for Business-Critical ApplicationsIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

Digital transformation is not characterized by the rampant adoption of new-age technologies, but by the end objective achieved by introducing simplicity and agility, that comes with it, in key areas that keeps the business running.In the world of digitization, the customer's expectations are to address the business challenges of their data center and leverage niche technologies to adapt, grow and transform the business processes that deliver solutions to resolve the pain points and give a hybrid platform to use functionalities of on-premises and public cloud capabilities. Organizations have been exploring the public cloud platform, but are not fully satisfied with the capabilities that it offers. It gets expensive in the long run.The organization’s business model/KPI, customer’s digital adoption, IT maturity, application landscape, and strategic alignment play a pivotal role in choosing the hybrid cloud. The objective of this blog is to highlight the key business drivers that are cruci

This week we will be looking back on our user conference .NEXT and share keynotes and panel discussions. On today's podcast we have our CEO Rajiv Ramaswami who unpacks the path forward for Nutanix and who chats with Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz about the cloud paradox. Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox Make your Mark in 2022 and Become a Nutanix Technology ChampionIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

Nutanix customers can set up a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection from their on-premises datacenter to the Nutanix DRaaS service to replicate their workloads and setup communication between the two. A VPN solution also enables secure communication between your on-premises Prism® Central instance and the production Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in the Nutanix DRaaS service.This blog will cover the following:How to enable workload communication between on-premises and your Nutanix DRaaS in the following scenarios:Nutanix managed VPN appliance on-premises to Nutanix VPN appliance on your Nutanix DRaaS. Third party VPN on-premises to Nutanix VPN appliance on your Nutanix DRaaS.Nutanix VPN Appliance On-premises to Nutanix VPN Appliance on Nutanix DRaaSWhen using the Nutanix managed VPN appliance on both sides of the connection, the deployment process automatically creates an ipsec tunnel with EBGP as the routing protocol running on top of it. These routes between both sides are a

This blog was authored by Gourab Baksi Principal Product Manager NutanixThis first blog in the three-part series on Metro Availability for AHV focuses on how to achieve zero data loss with Protection Policies in Prism Central at VM granularity.For mission-critical applications in various industry sectors like banking, capital markets, insurance, healthcare, and emergency life support services, 24x7x365 uptime is key for the business to function unhindered. In such cases, applications need to have transparent visibility into underlying IT infrastructure failures, including hardware components (disk, network cards, power supply), racks, clusters, or sites. A 2014 Gartner study puts the cost of downtime at $5,600 per minute and can go as high as $540,000 per hour for mission-critical applications.One of our core principles at Nutanix is to ensure the continuous availability of data for all applications running on the platform. To achieve seamless business continuity, we have built High Av

The 2022 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) applications are open!We are accepting submissions up to November 2, 2021, at midnight PST. We will announce the new group in December 2021.This program recognizes Nutanix hybrid multicloud experts for their ongoing and consistent external contributions to the community and industry. Nutanix Technology Champions are our advocates and technology ambassadors who influence change with practical advice and bold ideas.The NTC program provides unique opportunities to expand their knowledge further, amplify their brand, and help shape the future of the hybrid multicloud.Benefits to program members include:Early access briefings about Nutanix products and announcements Access to private betas and insight into ongoing product development Participation in exclusive meetings with engineering teams Access to discussions on the Nutanix NTC slack channel with internal teams Unique activities at our annual .NEXT conference including pre-show briefings  Caree

As a boxing fan in the 90’s and 2000’s, I watched the most famous boxers of the era rise from naturally-talented newcomers to dominators in the ring. And while their talent and hard work propelled them early in their careers, they were never satisfied with their current skills and conditioning. They continued to work hard on improving hand speed, movement, conditioning, and power en route to many years as champions of their respective weight classes. Now you may be asking yourself, what does boxing have to do with replication or Nutanix? Well, Nutanix, like the boxing legends we all know, continues to hone and improve our products with new capabilities, better performance, easier to navigate UI’s, etc. We don't have a “good enough” mindset where once we deliver a capability, we move onto the next. We continue to iterate and improve on it.To that end, Nutanix has delivered a more efficient method of replicating data from one  Nutanix AOS™ cluster to another AOS cluster for the purpose o

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

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

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