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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

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

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

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

What is Nutanix Flow?Nutanix Flow network microsegmentation is a feature in Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor that allows you to control and inspect traffic types across your virtual infrastructure. This is achieved through security policies which can be applied to individual virtual machines or categories of virtual machines. Flow is a function of Nutanix Prism Central and AHV and is enabled with a single-click. As a security  best practice, you will want to understand microsegmentation and have a firewall that inspects traffic before you switch this feature on. To use Flow you will need to go to your Prism Central Settings and check to “Enable Microsegmentation” and then click OK.What is Microsegmentation? Traditional segmentation works on “north-south” traffic – that is, client-server interactions that cross the security perimeter or a New Generation Firewall (NGFW). Today’s hybrid cloud architectures have changed the way we approach security and network traffic flow. The perimeter now is ig

Over the past several years, vendors have introduced an impressive new generation of architectures optimized for existing and evolving workloads like machine learning, deep learning, IoT and other data-reliant workloads. While the diversity of technology has grown dramatically, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is becoming the architecture of choice for IT—moving from business applications into mission-critical applications. HCI provides the agility to support a wide range of business solutions from edge to core to cloud.Today, new business insights and innovation are increasingly dependent on analyzing data ‘at the edge’ and efficiently storing these insights in the cloud. In response to this, Lenovo and Nutanix have worked together to develop a versatile solution that is able to support any workload, at any scale, anywhere. The product of this collaboration is the newest ThinkAgile HX series for Nutanix.To properly illustrate the value of this HCI edge solution, we will discuss: Ho

Welcome to the Nutanix community podcast this is where the community converges to stay informed, learn about our latest developments and get to know folks inside Nutanix.This week my co-host Dwayne Lessner chats with Luke Congdon from our product management team to talk about the recent Nutanix and Red Hat news. Follow us on TwitterDwayne Lessner Angelo Luciani Nutanix CommunityResourcesNutanix Community Blog Nutanix User Groups Red Hat and Nutanix Partner to Deliver Big On Hybrid CloudIf 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 GoogleBe sure to register for our annual .NEXT user conference happening September 20-23, 2021 online. It’s Cloud on your terms.

Gone are the days when CIOs and IT leaders were happy if their IT infrastructure just worked as advertised. In today’s hybrid IT world, the workloads have become operationally distributed across on-prem, managed services, multiple public clouds, and edge sites. Hybrid IT inherently brings in additional complexity to deploy and manage. Disaster recovery planning becomes quintessential for the smooth operations of hybrid IT when faced with natural or man-made disasters.In the disaster recovery (DR) space, supporting options for different Recovery Point Objective (RPO: maximum amount of data a customer is willing to lose), Recovery Time Objective (RTO: acceptable time to restore operations when IT failure occurs) aligning to business needs is critical. And providing flexible options for protection workflows, DR failover runbooks, multi-site deployments, IP alignment post-recovery, etc., have all become table-stakes.Today’s CIOs and IT leaders expect their DR environments to be smarter and

Exciting news today, Red Hat and Nutanix Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Open Hybrid Multicloud Solutions.I know many of you have been waiting for this and it’s finally here.Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, and Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced a strategic partnership to enable a powerful solution for building, scaling and managing cloud-native applications on-premises and in hybrid clouds. The collaboration brings together industry-leading technologies, enabling installation, interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV.Here are some of the highlights:Red Hat OpenShift as the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on Nutanix Cloud Platform. Customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will be able to use an industry-leading clou

Nutanix Prism HCI management software helps organizations intelligently manage infrastructure and applications with reduced effort. There are many features (part of the Pro and Ultimate tiers) in Prism that provide in-depth details and simplify operations, with intelligent operations (AIOps). For this post we will focus specifically on X-Play (Cross Play), the Nutanix low code automation for ITOps.The X-Play feature within Prism allows administrators to automate routine operational tasks, reducing the effort and time spent on tasks while increasing the quality of results. To provide this automation, X-Play lets you select actions and triggers from a provided catalog to construct a playbook. The playbook then executes the operations based on the logic that was constructed and can intelligently repeat the actions if required until the desired outcome is achieved.The following are a number of great examples of what is possible when automating common operation tasks using X-Play. These ran

With the introduction of Elasticsearch® 7.13, the Elasticsearch®’s feature of searchable snapshots is fully GA.  If you are running Elasticsearch® with Nutanix Objects, you now have the option of having cold nodes that have a single copy of a shard backed up by snapshots stored in an S3 bucket or frozen indexes where no data is stored on the actual data nodes, and they only access the snapshots when needed.This can greatly decrease the number of data nodes required as a single frozen node can handle 100TB of data. This is great news for organizations that keep data around long term, but still have occasional searches against this data. I also had an inquiry recently where a customer had to ingest 3TB a day but there were rarely any searches, and the data had to be kept for a year. This is another great use case as you can lifecycle the indexes from hot to frozen rather quickly and use very few data nodes.The new searchable snapshots feature gives you even more reasons to run Elasticsea

A new set of storage management innovations give HCI administrators even greater insight and control over how their data is being stored and protectedNutanix’s HCI platform simplifies and streamlines IT infrastructure with an advanced distributed systems architecture that automates much of the day-to-day administration required with traditional infrastructure. The foundation of HCI is a distributed storage system that automates data management to optimize for consistent high performance with unmatched resiliency.These innovative storage capabilities significantly reduce the amount of manual intervention required from storage administrators, while providing insights into system status and behavior is important for ensuring optimal system behavior, for capacity planning, and for heading off potential issues before they become a problem for end users.As more and more organizations depend on Nutanix HCI for storing and protecting data associated with their most critical business applicatio

Announcing  TWO Automation Contests between July 7, 2021 – July 30, 2021 with chances to win some great prizes! Does automation scare you? Well it shouldn’t! Automation will make you the department superhero, it turns out automation is EASY and simple to help you get your day to day tasks done quicker and more efficiently so you can focus on what is truly moving the business forward. It’s time to position yourself as a strategic business partner for other organizations in your company.You don’t have to be an automation expert, in fact, we hope you aren’t so we can teach you how to make sure you’re fully utilizing your Nutanix Cloud Platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to win prizes while simplifying the mundane tasks that keep you from mission-critical work.!Who: Anyone can participate*Why: With Prism’s Playbook/X-Play feature and Calm’s Blueprint feature, ITOps automation is easier than ever before. Experience how low code automation can greatly improve ITOps efficiency.When: July 7,

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Jasnoor Gill and Maynak Gupta. Jasnoor is Sr. Director, Product Management and Mayank is Director, Product Marketing. They discuss Calm SaaS, how it works, and how to get started. Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-calm-saas-general-availabilityFollow us on TwitterJasnoor Gill - twitter.com/jasnoorgillMayank Gupta - twitter.com/MayankGDriveDwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLucianiNutanix Community - twitter.com/NutanixNationResourcesNutanix Community Blog - next.nutanix.comNutanix Customer XTribe - customerxtribe.influitive.comNutanix User Groups - next.nutanix.com/groupsIf 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.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or GoogleBe sure to register for our annual .NEXT user conference h

The Nutanix® Test Drive for AIOps & Automation simulator  allows you to explore the Nutanix X-Play tool and configure playbooks to perform automated tasks based on alerts and events. This blog series will walk you through more playbook ideas and actions that can be performed on your Nutanix Test Drive or on your own Nutanix platform.If you haven’t signed up for Test Drive yet, navigate to the AIOps & Automation tab on the Nutanix Test Drive landing page. Test Drive gives you a hands-on experience with a real Nutanix cluster running in your web browser with no software or hardware required. Once you’re signed up, you can follow along to create this playbook in your Test Drive environment.Let’s get started!What is X-Play?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.Playbooks allow you to define a set of a

While Nutanix has grown and matured, so has its customer base.  With much broader adoption comes a wide variety of legacy applications from complex infrastructures that benefit by migrating to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.  Sureline Systems tackles the challenges of migration from these complex environments.What Makes Migration from Complex Environments Challenging?Complexity comes from a variety of factors that need to be handled correctly to avoid any negative impact on the migrated applications or cause needless delays.  A migration solution needs to migrate servers that are running on physical servers, hypervisors including VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, and other major cloud infrastructures. It must also support migration of both Microsoft Windows and Linux servers.But complexity is not just in the platform, it is also in the nuances of the version of the operating system that the application is running on, and how the data is stored on persistent disk on drives, volumes, and file

Enterprise IT organizations across industries are facing explosive data growth and are struggling to manage data within tight budgets. Nutanix and Komprise help enable companies to do more with less—Nutanix simplifies IT infrastructure and delivers cloud-like economics, and Komprise makes it easy to identify, migrate, and manage the right data on Nutanix. The result is greater efficiency, simpler management, and lower costs.Key use cases with Komprise and Nutanix covered in this post include:Analytics and Planning: In most enterprises, over 80% of data is cold and not accessed in over a year, yet it continues to consume expensive storage and backup resources. Komprise analyzes across your NAS and cloud data to identify the right data to move to Nutanix and the savings you can expect. File Data Migrations to Nutanix: Migrate file data up to 27 times faster with reliable MD5 checksums on every file. Manage hundreds of migrations with a single console. Transparent Data Archiving/Tiering f

We are excited to introduce our latest update to Nutanix Test Drive - AI Ops and Automation! This Test Drive allows you to quickly try out capacity planning, playbooks, application automation, and more!Nutanix Test Drive is a way for you to easily experience the Nutanix platform on your time through your web browser. From this landing page, you can explore different use cases without having to install any software or configure any hardware.AI Ops and AutomationStart exploring AI Ops and Automation on Nutanix by navigating to the AI Ops & Automation tab on the Nutanix Test Drive landing page.Once you are logged in, you will be presented with the Automate Operations menu.If you don’t see this menu for any reason, you can navigate to it from the main menu by clicking on Automate Operations -> IT Automation.Note: At any point during the guided tour, you can exit the tour by clicking the X in the top-right corner of the current window. You can return to the guided tour by clicking on

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Jarian Gibson . They discuss Nutanix Files with EUC, and Nutanix Files deployments. It’s a great technical talk where they really get into the details. Follow us on TwitterJarian Gibson  Dwayne Lessner  Angelo Luciani  Nutanix CommunityResourcesSimple, Flexible, Intelligent File Storage Nutanix Files Delivers End-User Computing Without Compromise Bursting 2,000 Citrix Desktops to AWS in Under 2 Hours with Nutanix Clusters Citrix Cloud on the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Platform Delivers Choice, Simplicity and PerformanceIf 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 GoogleBe sure to register for our annual .NEXT user conference happening September 20-23, 2021 online. It’s Cloud on your terms.

Being deeply customer focused means developing a deep understanding of your customers needs and challenges and then developing solutions that help. Nutanix has been focused on the customer since inception, it’s one of our core principles. And that goes for our storage products. That is why we are so pleased to have been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.Gartner Peer Insights is a free peer review and rating platform designed for enterprise software and service decision makers. Nutanix Files and Nutanix Objects solutions were first included on the Gartner Peer Insights list as a discrete product in the summer of 2020 and within a very short time, received over 56 peer reviews with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5*, one of the highest in the distributed file systems and object storage space.As a result of our rapid and highly favorable customer feedback, we are one of only five companies to place in the top right quad

The Nutanix Move tool (formerly known as Xtract) is a cross-hypervisor mobility solution initially introduced to help customers migrate VMs onto the Nutanix platform with minimal downtime. Since the underlying infrastructures differ, a small amount of downtime is incurred during cutover from the source platform to the target.Since its introduction, Nutanix has enhanced the Move™ tool to support a variety of lift and shift migrations, including migrations to and from AWS® EC2 instances. The latest release of Nutanix Move 3.7, launched in January 2021, makes AWS migrations much simpler, with a smoother UI workflow, improved security, more reliable migration process, and increased performance. Nutanix Move BackgroundStarting with the Move 1.0 release, we had a framework that provided the foundation for workload migrations among Nutanix AHV and other hypervisors and cloud platforms.In 2018, the Move Engineering team added support for Amazon EC2 migrations. Nutanix Move leverages published

Nutanix Files is a software defined, flexible, file storage service.  Since its early access release in 2016, Files has been focused on simplifying and consolidating network attached storage (NAS) for the enterprise and supporting use cases from end user computing through video surveillance and medical imaging.In parallel, Nutanix engineering has been executing on act two, evolving Files into an intelligent data management platform for the hybrid cloud.  One of the first steps in this second act was introducing File Analytics in 2019, a native and integrated software offering to help you audit user activity, detect anomalies, and derive deeper insights into your unstructured data.With the release of Nutanix Files 3.8 and File Analytics 3.0 we progress further into act two, delivering more flexible and efficient remote replication to help enable hybrid cloud disaster recovery.  We also extend File Analytics to include native ransomware intelligence, custom reporting capabilities, and da

The Internet of Things (IoT) landscape is a jungle. The sheer number of IoT platforms, portals, and solutions makes it extremely difficult to choose the right solution to a given problem. When working with IoT, you get used to a lot of trial and error, running tests, and doing proof of concept (POC) installations. Having a stable and flexible platform for running those installations and tests becomes crucial.I have worked in the IoT space for several years with customers of varying organization sizes, ranging from large private enterprises, to public-sector, to small startups. Throughout my experience, I spent a disproportionate amount of time designing and setting up infrastructure for running my tests or POCs.In this blog, I demonstrate how the Nutanix® Karbon™ Platform Services (KPS) platform-as-a-service offering  simplifies deploying infrastructure, running quick POCs, and providing stable production environments for IoT use cases. KPS accelerates innovation by freeing you to focu