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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

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 Nut

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

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 (H

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 wh

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

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 wit

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: Any

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 Less

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

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.

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

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.

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 CommunityResources

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, recei

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 migrat

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

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 infrastru

We at Dbvisit are excited to announce that Dbvisit Standby is now officially Nutanix Ready Certified for Nutanix AHV. Dbvisit’s certified solution provides Nutanix customers running Oracle Standard Edition databases on the Nutanix hyperconverged Infrastructure, a cost-effective and enterprise class disaster recovery offering, to ensure resilient database environments and enabling business continuity.Companies who run Oracle Standard Edition databases on Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure, will appreciate the simplicity and automation capabilities of Dbvisit Standby, when it comes to building and managing a standby Oracle database environment. Dbvisit Standby reduces the risks associated with hand-built solutions and manual processing. In addition, Dbvisit Standby allows customers to improve their database licensing efficiencies and maximize the investment in their standby infrastructure.Dbvisit Standby is built on top of the tried and proven Oracle redo/archive lo

Now that remote work holds center stage, seamless and distributed enterprise IT operations (ITOps) has never been more important. Nutanix launched Foundation Central in May 2020 as part of its ongoing goal to make infrastructure invisible.Foundation Central extends the deployment services already available from Foundation and makes zero-touch centralized deployments scalable and easy. Once equipment has been racked and cabled, organizations do not require any IT specialists at the datacenter or remote IT site to install or rebuild any of the IT infrastructure software.Nutanix recently launched further enhancements to Foundation Central with version 1.1.

Nutanix Xi Leap—the cloud-based disaster recovery service—has received SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, and SOC 3 attestations based on a comprehensive examination conducted in accordance with the standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The review evaluated Nutanix’s implementation and adherence to an extensive list of controls covering a wide range of processes based on the trust services criteria for security, availability, and confidentiality. The review concluded that Nutanix’s service commitments were successfully achieved. This achievement assures customers of Nutanix’s commitment to security and compliance.The SOC 2 Type 1 report confirms that the Xi Leap security controls are effectively designed, and the SOC 2 Type 2 report confirms that those security controls are effectively implemented and operating for a period of performance. SOC 2 Type 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports may be requested at: 

This latest release delivers improvements in logging, CSI driver enhancements, and Kubernetes 1.17 support.Following the recent Karbon Clusters 2.1 release, which featured the incorporation of the Calico Networking framework, CSI volume cloning, and expanded APIs, Nutanix is excited to announce the release and general availability of Karbon Clusters 2.2! In version 2.2, the Karbon team delivers support for Kubernetes 1.17, improvements in logging, dynamic storage volume provisioning, and several other key enhancements.Kubernetes 1.17 SupportWhile the level of contribution to Kubernetes from its expansive community is highly beneficial to the cloud native world, it also makes it difficult for users to keep

As an IT administrator, you're already optimizing and streamlining work to achieve the do more with less requirements. Here’s a quick health check. How many hours do you spend checking in on infrastructure resources, including nights and weekends?In the midst of the pandemic, your organization supports remote work, and most likely, you are managing the IT infrastructure remotely. With chronic shortages of IT staff and vendor support, it’s a challenge on top of a challenge. Especially now it is inevitable to minimize manual and repetitive maintenance focused tasks.It’s time to meet the intelligent automation solution from Nutanix. The dynamic infrastructure management console Prism provides a 360-degree view of your

Happy new year everyone, I hope this year will be the best year yet for you and your family. Lets continue to look forward and stay safe.This week on the podcast I chat with regular Kees Baggerman and Aditya Kaul. We chat about a topic that has been very hot in the last year or so end user computing and in particular NVIDIA GPUs and benefits for EUC. Follow us on TwitterKees Baggerman Angelo Luciani Dwayne LessnerIf you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of choice. It

Nutanix was founded with a bold vision: to make managing IT infrastructure so simple that it becomes invisible. We made compute, storage, virtualization, and clouds invisible—a technology stack that practically runs itself. Now, we’re making the support needed to operate such a complex stack invisible too.While Nutanix continues to deliver products that are simple and easy to use, underneath, the complexity and availability of ecosystem options for the technology stack has continued to increase.2011: Hyperconverged Infrastructure stack2020: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure stackThe disruptive