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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 logging mechanism a

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.We have made several UI improvements to provide increased information about the nodes, including ones being discovered. The image below shows nodes being discovered and the ones that are available for cluster deployment.The following image below shows how nodes can be grouped by categories such as serial number and host type.A customizab

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:  https://www.nutanix.com/trust where the SOC

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 up with the pace at which Kubernetes functionality evolves. Karbon Clusters 2.2 now officially supports Kubernetes 1.17. Logging ImprovementsKarbon Clusters 2.2, gives users the ability to forward Kubernetes cluster and application logs to external servers or endpoints. Previously, on

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 hyperconverged infrastructure through a single pane of glass. Its AI Operations (AIOps) tier keeps an eye on your infrastructure so you don’t have to. The AIOps also responds to resource anomalies which will  save you time to do more strategic work. Let’s find out how!Get Un

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 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 Google

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 Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution that Nutanix pioneered a decade ago originally consisted of Nutanix NX nodes, AOS software, the ESXi hypervisor, and Prism management software. Over time additional infrastructure layers have been added, providing an end-to-end environment for hybrid cloud and multicloud solutions.Nutanix has consistently provided world-leading Support with a 90+ Net Promote

I am delighted to share our growing list of Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC) for 2021. This group of IT professionals are from every cloud, application and technology group. Their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and expertise help their organizations and the virtualization community to challenge the status quo.This has been a challenging year with COVID, families coping with distance learning and the changing dynamics of working from home. But these NTCs continued in the face of unprecedented uncertainty, delivering the applications and services their companies, clients and friends needed.In addition, they continued to mentor and encourage others showcasing what being part of a community is all about.I'm looking forward to another exciting year and learning from many of you. Take the time to get to know one another and congratulate each other on social media, use the hashtag #NutanixNTC and keep the conversation going.One more thing - What can I do if I did not make the list this y

This post was authored by Bhavik Desai, NutanixNutanix has been disrupting enterprise IT infrastructure for over a decade now, evolving from servicing VDI and dev/test workloads to powering the most demanding and performance-intensive workloads for more than 17,000 customers, across industries and around the world. When Nutanix engineers began designing AOS, the software foundation of hyperconverged infrastructure, they made some key architectural decisions that resulted in a very resilient, highly scalable, and performant architecture. Some of them were:Fine-grained metadata, which enables flexible and dynamic data management, which also provides fast recoveries during failure scenarios and migrations. Dynamic data management, enabling AOS to keep active data locally on the same node where the application is residing. Data locality helps in providing optimal performance to applications without having to traverse the network.With newer versions of AOS, Nutanix engineers have made furth

This week on the podcast Dwayne speaks with Steve Carter and Bhavik Desai about our recent release AOS 5.19. This one is full of features and Dwayne highlights some of the more notable items. I’d love to hear from the community about what excites them in this release so be sure to ping @nutanixnation on twitter and let me know. Follow us on TwitterAngelo Luciani Dwayne LessnerIf 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 Google

This post was authored by Amin Aflatoonian, Enterprise Architect NutanixIn our previous post, we presented an architectural overview of Contrail integration to the AHV cluster. In this post, we describe the deployment of this controller in detail.A detailed description of virtual network and VM creation will be presented in the next post.DeploymentTo explain the deployment of Contrail on AHV, we used a lab environment containing a  three node Nutanix cluster. We present the lab architecture in the following figure.Contrail AHV lab architectureBecause we don’t need to have a Contrail control HA, we deploy only one Contrail controller VM and three vRouter VMs (one vRouter per node).We used Ansible to deploy Contrail. In this lab, we also created an Ansible deployer VM (called Contrail deployer) that manages the deployment lifecycle. For this purpose, we created a provisioning network in the Nutanix cluster and attached all Contrail VMs (controller and vRouters) to this network. The figur

As more organizations turn to a hybrid cloud and multicloud model to serve a diverse user base, Nutanix has taken a lead in providing a platform to serve any workload, anywhere. Data is a core component to this platform and providing flexible storage to enable data anywhere is the mission of Nutanix consolidated storage solutions. In recent weeks we’ve been excited to announce new capabilities that deliver on the promise of data anywhere to support workloads where users need them.Nearly limitless scaleA critical component to a multicloud solution is the ability for a platform to scale to the size required by a workload and cloud location. Sometimes the location is at the edge and the needs are small and other times the workload spans the core datacenter and public cloud, with massive capacity and performance requirements.Nutanix consolidated storage solutions continue to push the boundaries of storage capacity with extremely dense nodes. We now offer 350 TB capacity nodes for both Nuta

During our first ever virtual .NEXT conference that took place in September 2020, we had over 1000 Test Drives taken over the course of the two day event.  If you’re not familiar, Nutanix Test Drive allows you to experience Nutanix products and solutions on-demand directly in your web browser.  These clusters are pre-seeded with interesting services, VMs, and demo applications to make the experience interesting for our end users.Have you ever wondered how we can reliably create 1000s of Nutanix clusters in a short period of time?  And, once created, how we prepare these clusters with interesting VMs, data, and demo applications?  The short answer is that we use Nutanix Calm extensively during this process!  If you’re not familiar, Nutanix Calm provides infrastructure and application automation and orchestration across private clouds and public clouds. For a longer answer, read on!Cluster CreationThe first step is creating a nested Nutanix that can run on a wide variety of infrastructur

This week on the podcast I speak with two well known community members, Aaron Delp and Kees Baggerman. We discuss Citrix on Nutanix clusters. We cover a good deal on this episode from where and why to start, different use cases and we go over some testing results with Domain controllers on-prem and in the cloud. There is a lot of goodness in this episode, site back and enjoy! Follow us on TwitterKees Baggerman Aaron Delp Angelo Luciani Dwayne LessnerResourcesCitrix on NCA: MCS and Windows Desktops Citrix on NCA: MCS and Windows Servers Citrix on NCA: PVS and Windows Desktops Citrix on NCA: PVS and Windows Servers 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 Performance If 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 t

The 2021 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) applications are open We are accepting submissions up to November 5, 2020, at midnight PST. We will announce the new group in December 2020.This program recognizes Nutanix enterprise cloud 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 Enterprise Cloud.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 Support

At Nutanix, our customers always come first. Throughout the years, we have always made significant investments to ensure our customers have the best experience with our products and services. This has been recognized by our industry-leading Net Promoter Score (NPS) which has averaged over 90 for the past six years in a row. I am also delighted to share that Nutanix has received a number of additional customer service awards this year.For the seventh year in a row, Nutanix received the “NorthFace ScoreBoard Award” from CRMI in recognition of our outstanding customer service and support throughout 2019. In recognition of our sustained excellence for having won this award for more than five years, Nutanix also received the NorthFace Summit Class Award, which is a rare honor. The Nutanix Support Portal was chosen as one of the “Top 5 Support Websites” in the industry by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP) for a third time! NorthFace This year’s award recognized our investment in

Just about a decade back, when Nutanix set on the path to bring simplicity to IT infrastructure, we created the operating system for datacenters. An OS that can manage and provide services that typically run in a DC - compute, virtualization, storage, and associated networking. Some of the focused workloads were (and are) End User Computing, Server Virtualization, Database Management (SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA) and so on.On this journey of bringing simplicity and agility, we mastered the art of 1-click (Foundation, Upgrades, Prism), Business Continuity and DR (so mission-critical apps can run confidently on AOS), and Security (making it one of our leading differentiators).Even a decade back, from what I have heard from the early stakeholders, our founders always had a vision about the upcoming Cloud era. Our steps from the beginning were first freedom of choice, second HW agnostic SW, and finally the transition to a software business model and then to subscription. These have all been step

We are pleased to announce that Nutanix has been awarded a Common Criteria (CC) certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ (EAL2+) for the following core products: AOS and AHV. AOS storage is the foundation that makes hyperconverged infrastructure possible to deliver scalable and high-performance storage for all applications. AHV is a license-free virtualization solution for your enterprise to streamline operations. The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation is the most widely recognized international security standard for the evaluation of Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled products. The Common Criteria requirements and guidelines are defined in International Standards Organization (ISO) 15408.  A rigorous CC evaluation is conducted by an independent accredited testing laboratory to ensure an unbiased assessment of security features. Nutanix’s CC certification is recognized by all 31 CCRA participating countries as well as all 13 SOG-IS participatin

Most traditional IT houses are built on a foundation of some long favored conventional wisdom. To wit, “the fans and early adopters take Windows 10 right out of the box.” “We’re bleeding edge; we’ll take SP1.” “We are an enterprise; we will deploy SP2 in production.” Or, “We’ll wait for RHEL to support VMware 7.0.” If you’ve worked in IT for more than a few years, you know the drill--there are some things your leadership just does not allow in your shop.The list is long and includes, but is not limited to, “hardware replacement after business hours only.” “Patch only when security requires it!” Or, “upgrades on the weekends only when there is less potential to impact the business.”In the end, the life of the crew doing the heavy IT lifting is largely one where even with the above rules, you never know what to expect. Other than to know that your leadership values one thing: stability of the production systems, 24x7.In IT, we get stability by making sure we don’t change anything. The bu

We are delighted to announce that Sophos XG Firewall has been validated to protect Nutanix AHV infrastructure and is Nutanix Flow Ready.Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity protecting more than 400,000 organizations from today's most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs - a global threat intelligence and data science team - Sophos' cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints, servers, and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.Sophos XG Firewall provides comprehensive next-generation firewall protection powered by innovations in deep learning, Synchronized Security, and their new Xstream architecture. Sophos XG Firewall running on Nutanix AHV provides deeper visibility into applications, network activity, and threats – able to stop even previously unseen attacks.Sophos XG Firewall has been validated

Nutanix Calm 3.0 is now GA! This release brings in many power-packed features, such as Runbooks (the ability to create custom orchestrated workflows), Nutanix Xi cloud support, Microsoft Azure integrations, and more. With Calm 3.0, Nutanix has also released 250+ pre-built tasks that can be imported into the Calm Task Library.The economic benefits of IT automation are well established. With most industries undergoing a digital transformation, organizations are looking to decrease costs, operate more efficiently, and reduce time to market for their solutions. Achieving each of these requires planning, deploying, and managing IT infrastructure across public and private clouds.Nutanix Calm provides a comprehensive platform to model, deploy, and manage complex multi-tier applications across public and private clouds in a centralized management platform. Calm’s blueprint model makes it easier to build and consume infrastructure. One of the most powerful aspects of Calm is the “Marketplace,”

This post was authored by David Teague, Technical Marketing Engineer, NutanixNutanix Test Drive for Era, the Nutanix database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution, has added some exciting new features. In just a few clicks you can now experience how easy it is to deploy multi-region databases with replicas, set up data protection, and apply a patch--all key database management activities.Updates to the deep-dive into Database as a ServiceWhen you register at the Era Test Drive site, you’ll receive an email with a link for direct access to your environment.After logging in, you will be presented with a welcome message and an updated guided tour description for the Database-as-a-Service Deep-Dive modules:Provisioning: Deploy a single instance database.  NEW--Deploy multi-region database with replicas.  NEW--Patching: Create a new Patch Standard and apply the patch to a database server. NEW--Database Protection: Do an in-place database restore of a corrupted database Copy Data Management: Create

This post was authored by Induprakas Keri, Chief Product Security OfficerWe are pleased to announce that Xi Cloud services and Clusters have achieved ISO 27701:2019 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) certification. ISO 27701 is considered to be the first internationally recognized privacy certification and is the privacy extension of the ISO 27001 security management standard. ISO 27701 builds upon the same 27001 requirements, controls, and objectives associated with the collection and processing of personally identifiable information (PII) and other types of personal data consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).These privacy controls are implemented and maintained through a PIMS. The Nutanix Xi Cloud PIMS, which is comprised of  Xi Leap, Xi Beam, Xi Epoch, Xi Frame, Xi IoT, Xi Insights, Xi File Analytics, and Clusters has received an accredited ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certification as a data processor and data controller. Coalfire issued this certification a

The 2020 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) applications are open. We are accepting submissions up to November 8, 2019, at midnight PST. We will announce the new group in December 2019.This program recognizes Nutanix enterprise cloud 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 Enterprise Cloud.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 Support

This post was authored by Amit Jain and Sean Roth, NutanixOur new Kubernetes-based PaaS enables you to easily build, deploy, and manage your most innovative applications on any cloudThough every organization’s cloud native journey plays out differently, the end goal remains the same: capitalize on the substantial gains in business agility and scalability that containers, Kubernetes, and the growing ecosystem of cloud technologies yields. Enterprises want to move faster, but the great challenge lies in putting the right frameworks, tools, and technologies in place in order to be able to go fast. Furthermore, all of those solutions (Kubernetes, especially) take a lot of time and effort to master and operate properly.Simplifying Kubernetes lifecycle management to adequately serve developers’ resource needs is just the beginning of what cloud native organizations need to accomplish. Even with a managed solution in place to keep Kubernetes from getting in developers’ way, we know that much