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This post was authored by Sarah Hernandez and Mayank Gupta, NutanixWhile capacity planning and anomaly detection were always the most recognized benefits of Prism’s Operations Tier (Pro & Ultimate), the addition of X-Play (cross-play) in AOS 5.11 for “codeless” automation has cemented the role of Prism for AI-driven Intelligent Ops. With X-Play, IT admins can set triggers for system-generated alerts, define the subsequent actions, and save-enable the “routine” for true automation running 24x7.Getting StartedUnlike other automation solutions that can be complex and hard to learn, X-Play is simple by design. Anyone familiar with infrastructure operations alerts and actions should be able to create a playbook within a matter of minutes. X-Play provides a collection of design libraries for out-of-the-box actions for notification, VM management, reporting, and scheduling. It also includes the REST API and script actions that can connect to your existing tools and systems.Following are s

What a memorable .NEXT, our first digital conference, with interesting guests, exciting speakers, deep technical content and a celebration of the Nutanix community!With so many announcements, and for those that could not make it, I thought I would summarize the announcements here.Thank you for being part of this exciting event and for sharing your expertise each week in our community forums.Session content can be found .NEXT Conference 2020If you missed the keynotes, don’t worry I have you covered, I’ve included to opening keynotes at the end of this post - enjoy!.NEXT 2020 Announcement SummaryHybrid Cloud Solutions with Nutanix and Microsoft AzureA Strategic Partnership to Develop Hybrid and Multicloud Solutions with Seamless App Mobility and Unified Management Across Private Cloud and Azure.Nutanix Announces Partnership with Microsoft Azure for a Seamless Hybrid ExperienceA new partnership with Microsoft that will enable both companies to deliver a hybrid solution with seamless appli

We’re happy to announce that Nutanix Test Drive now includes Flow, an application security solution from Nutanix. With just a few clicks, you can start using Nutanix Flow to isolate virtual environments, secure your applications, and thwart malware attacks. Flow microsegmentation provides policy-based security from Prism Central for workloads on AHV, the native Nutanix hypervisor. Built into the AHV hypervisor virtual switch, Flow is a distributed, stateful firewall that protects VMs at the virtual NIC level. Flow also visualizes the network traffic in your environment, so that you can deploy applications following a zero-trust methodology and seamlessly add or block newly detected traffic.Test Drive Nutanix FlowGet started from our Nutanix Flow Test Drive site. When you log in, you will be greeted with the Test Drive menu inviting you to Protect Your Data and Apps From Network Threats.Flow Test Drive menu over the Prism UIThe guided tour covers four separate topics, giving you the too

This post was authored by Mayur Shah & Bala Kuchibhotla, NutanixData volumes are growing exponentially year-over-year. Experts believe that 90% of the world’s data was created in just the last two years. It’s clear that the way we generate and consume data has changed, and—given the fast pace of modern business—traditional approaches to database management are failing to meet growing enterprise demands. Your IT operations may already be facing significant database-related challenges including:Growing complexity. Teams spend too much time managing and troubleshooting legacy databases, leaving little time for optimization, innovation, or growing your business. Poor performance and scaling. Existing database deployment models suffer from slow provisioning and poor scalability—and require constant tuning to achieve adequate performance. Inadequate data security. Databases are the workhorses of many business systems, often storing sensitive customer and business data. Lately there has b

This post was authored by Derek Seaman & Venu Vuppalapati, NutanixNutanix is proud to announce a new Xpert professional services portfolio to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes in their database modernization and automation journey. The series of database modernization services will bring your Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases into a virtual environment and manage the full lifecycle of databases using the one-click simplicity of Nutanix Era.The professional service offerings help IT organizations plan, design, and implement their next database environment, including helping them set up storage and virtual machines for Nutanix HCI core, and deploy and configure Nutanix Era to enable functions like provisioning, backup and recovery, and copy data management. The services can be consumed in two forms:As individual or a la carte services. This includes design workloads, database migration planning workshops, deployment service, backup and copy data m

Deploy simple, flexible, and intelligent storage and shares in minutes with Nutanix Files. Eliminate the need to create a NAS silo. Test Drive today!Nutanix Test Drive continues to add new use cases and capabilities. Check out our blogs to learn about all of the use cases that have been covered by Test Drive so far. We are excited to introduce Nutanix Test Drive for Data Consolidation (TD 2.2), which lets you try out Nutanix Files, our simple, flexible, and intelligent file storage for the cloud era. It provides a repository for unstructured data, eliminating the need to create a NAS silo. Nutanix Files leverages the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud architecture and is directly integrated into Prism.Test Drive 2.2 With Nutanix FilesLet’s get started with Nutanix Files. First, fill out a short form on our Test Drive site. You will receive an email with a link to log in. When you log in, you will see a menu of modules to explore. Click on the new Consolidate Your Data tile to find 3 brand-new gu

We're excited to introduce Nutanix Test Drive for Era, the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution that brings one-click simplicity to database administration. Let’s take a full test drive!Deep-dive into Database as a ServiceWe’ll get started by navigating to our Era Test Drive site. When you register, 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 a guided tour description for the Database as a Service deep dive modules:The steps to deploy a database with Era (Deploy Database) How to clone a production database for testing (Clone Production DB) Using the clone refresh feature to update a cloned database (Refresh Clone)Deploy DatabaseFirst, experience how quick and easy it is to deploy a database with our DBaaS. In this example, you will deploy a MariaDB database on a new server using predefined profiles. Era also applies Nutanix’s and the database engines’ best practices. As a result, you can

This blog will guide you through the “Interact with Shares” section of the Nutanix Files Test Drive. Nutanix Files is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides a repository for unstructured data, such as home directories, user profiles, departmental shares, application logs, backups, and archives. If you’re finding this post through the Nutanix .Next community and haven’t tried Test Drive for Files yet, we highly recommend that you check it out.The Interact with Shares walk-thru will provide you connection details to a Windows client you can use to access the existing Nutanix Files instance. To get the name of the installed Nutanix Files instance go to the AOSonGCP Prism Element File Server page. To get to Prism Element from Prism Central, click on AOSonGCP in the Cluster Quick Access widget on the Prism Central dashboard, or click on “Go to Prism Element” from the Quick Links menu.Once inside Prism Element, navigate to the File Server menu.Look for the Name in

This post was authored by Wes Kennedy, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at NutanixNutanix Test Drive continues to add new use cases and capabilities. Check out our blogs to learn about all of the use cases that have been covered by Test Drive so far. We are excited to expand Nutanix Test Drive for Data Consolidation (TD 2.3) to include Nutanix Objects, our powerful and efficient S3-compliant object store platform. Nutanix Objects allows you to quickly deploy a scalable object store solution for your developers and applications. Nutanix Objects leverages the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud architecture and is directly integrated into Prism Central.Test Drive an S3-Compatible Object Store Solution with Nutanix ObjectsLet’s get started with Nutanix Objects. First, fill out a short form on our Test Drive site. You will receive an email with a link to log in.When you log in, you will see a menu of modules to explore. Click on the new Consolidate Your Data tile to find Files and Objects availabl

Building and managing a hybrid cloud is easier said than done. We are excited to be adding Nutanix Clusters to the Nutanix Test Drive family. Nutanix Clusters bridges the gap between public and private clouds by providing a single platform that gives you the freedom to choose your operating model without cloud lock-in. Take a quick peek at this video. You enjoy the same unified management experience regardless of where your workload lives.Give Nutanix Clusters a try and see how easy it is to build and manage a hybrid cloud through Test Drive. It’s available to you for free without any setup or downloads. Test Drive lets you try out the Nutanix platform easily and quickly through your web browser. If you are new to Nutanix Test Drive, read this post to gain a general understanding of what it is. Our new and improved Test Drive 2.0 that we launched earlier this year runs on Google Cloud Platform and showcases Nutanix products and solutions through guided tours.Test Drive Nutanix Clusters

With thousands of customer deployments, Nutanix Files has quickly become integral for enabling enterprise class scale-out file server use cases.  Key use cases include Windows and Linux file shares, application data repositories, file archives, medical imaging and video surveillance stores, to name a few.  Working closely with our partners, Nutanix Files has recently been validated with key industry leaders in the areas of Healthcare and Smart Video including: Change Healthcare PACS Nutanix Files is validated as a PACS/VNA data storage solution by Change, the world’s largest healthcare software provider, for Change’s Healthcare Enterprise Imaging Portfolio. IBM Watson Health PACS Nutanix Files is validated for short term and long term archive data stores for Merge PACS, Merge Cardio, Merge Hemo and IBM Watson iConnect Enterprise Archive. Milestone Surveillance Nutanix Files is validated with Milestone XProtect to provide an intelligent and powerful solution capable of rec

This post was authored by our friends at Edgenexus We are delighted to announce our partnership with Nutanix and the certification of our Edgenexus Load balancer/ADC on the Nutanix AHV platform. Nutanix is revolutionizing application deployments with their hyperconverged infrastructure, and Edgenexus is simplifying the traditionally complex load-balancing arena – together, their benefits are amplified. Load balancing is a critical piece of the modern application infrastructure. Together with the right deployment environment it can allow applications to easily scale, while at the same time providing additional security and resilience. Greg Howett, CEO of Edgenexus said, “We have provided software-based load balancing for many years and are delighted that this partnership and certification, as an integrated and tested solution, can deliver additional benefits to our joint customers.” “We believe that Edgenexus makes perfect sense for load balancing Nutanix based applications: the pa

This week on the podcast I speak with NPX 8 René van den Bedem and we talk about education and certification. In this four-part series, We discuss certifications in general, tactics, career growth and what to do on the day of the exam. Now is a great time to restart your certification journey. Quick plug here checkout Nutanix.com/certifications for special deals and offers. Let me know on twitter if we helped inspired you to get certified this year!   Follow us on Twitter René van den Bedem Angelo Luciani Nutanix Nation Nutanix Education Resources Nutanix Online Community Nutanix Community Blog Nutanix Customer XTribe Nutanix User Groups 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 the series by seeing what you have to say. Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

This post was authored by Sean Roth, Director of Product Marketing - Karbon | Cloud Native Solutions Hot on the heels of the recent Karbon 2.0 release, which delivered single-click Kubernetes upgrades, support for air-gapped environments, and integration with Prism Pro for a single-pane-of-glass user experience, Nutanix is excited to announce the availability of Karbon 2.1! In this latest release, we’ve focused on tackling two of Kubernetes’ most difficult challenges: networking and storage. Calico Integration Networking Kubernetes pods and making them accessible to other services or external networks can be a complicated undertaking, often requiring the use of overlay networks and NATs. At scale, this becomes extremely complex. Many cloud native enterprises seeking a consistent container networking experience, along with capabilities that apply across different Kubernetes environments, have turned to Calico. Calico combines flexible networking capabilities with run-anywhere secu

This post was authored by Matt Slotten Senior Manager, Technical Marketing EngineeringWe are excited to release Nutanix Test Drive 2.5, which now includes the ability to experience the one-click simplicity, fast time to value, and integration between Nutanix and HYCU with Nutanix Mine, a dedicated data protection solution.Nutanix Test Drive lets you try out the Nutanix platform easily and quickly, through your web browser. Earlier this year, we announced our new and improved Test Drive 2.0 running on Google Cloud Platform, which showcases Nutanix products and solutions through guided tours.Test Drive Nutanix Mine with HYCUGet started from our Test Drive Simplified Backup with HYCU site. When you log in, you will be greeted with on-screen instructions that highlight the components of Nutanix Mine with HYCU and how they fit together.The guided tour for Mine with HYCU covers four primary topics:How the physical and virtual components of Mine fit together The integration between Nutanix Pr

This post was authored by Amin Aflatoonian, Enterprise Architect Nutanix Juniper Contrail is a software defined networking (SDN) controller deployed widely in the Telco cloud industry for a variety of use cases. Recently, Nutanix and Juniper announced that Contrail is validated for deployment on AHV, the native Nutanix hypervisor. In this post, I’ll present these two technologies architecturally and describe how they can be integrated. Architecture In this section I present briefly the architecture of both Contrail and AHV products to show how these two products can be coupled to provide added value services. To learn more about these products, please visit the Nutanix and Juniper official websites. Juniper Contrail Contrail is an SDN controller that creates and manages overlay networks on top of the physical and virtual infrastructure. Contrail consists of two main components: Contrail vRouter: a distributed router that runs on the hypervisor and provides networking capabiliti

This post was authored by Michael Haigh, Lakshana Rajendran and Laura Jordana Nutanix Calm Test Drive gives you hands-on experience with multicloud application automation. We are excited to introduce a self-paced deep dive for application automation and lifecycle management using Nutanix Calm (Nutanix Test Drive 2.1.5). Calm is an application lifecycle manager for private and public clouds built on our easy to use, multicloud application management framework.  It is natively integrated into Prism Central, the Nutanix centralized management tool, allowing you to seamlessly select, provision, and manage your business applications across your infrastructure for any cloud. This deep dive is part of Nutanix Test Drive, which lets you experience Nutanix solutions first hand with nothing more than your web browser. By choosing bite-sized modules, you can quickly explore the following areas: Infrastructure deployment and management with Prism, AOS, and AHV Monitoring resource usage and c

This post was authored by our friends at Edgenexus Load balancers and Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) have always been dogged by unnecessary complexity. This hidden barrier typically means only a fraction of possible features make it into an organization’s production environment. Edgenexus believes that this risks a massive waste of potential value. To remedy this, their goal is to always offer exceptional usability. The great news is that Edgenexus ADC and WAF are now available and certified on the Nutanix AHV platform. With the right deployment environment, Edgenexus can help enable applications to easily scale, while at the same time providing additional security and resilience offering advanced facilities such as GSLB (Global Server Load Balancer) and WAF (Web Application Firewall) in and easy-to-use package. Nutanix revolutionizes application deployments with their hyperconverged infrastructure, and Edgenexus simplifies the traditionally complex load-balancing arena.

This article was written by John Williamson, Nutanix Here’s the thing about traditional disaster recovery solutions. Not only are they expensive and time consuming to set up and maintain, testing them is usually such a hassle that organizations often do the bare minimum required for compliance purposes--if even that. This means that organizations are simply operating on faith that their solution will come through during whatever disaster befalls them. This false sense of security from an untested solution is in some respects worse than having no solution at all. Along comes Nutanix Xi Leap, an easy to use, no-install, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution. Not only is Xi Leap dead simple to set up and deploy, it also offers 1-click failover and failback, with on-demand testing. No more weeks or even months wasted setting up your DR test--and no more excuses for not testing. The good news is you can see it for yourself today. Nutanix now offers Xi Leap Disaster Recovery as

This week on the podcast I chat with Madhukar Kumar VP of Product Marketing. We talk about Nutanix Test Drive - a way to experience Nutanix software in the cloud with no setup or hardware required. You can take a guided tour or dive deep and use the tutorials.  On the podcast we talk about ‘why’ we created Test Drive, how behaviors have changed when folks are discovering products and what’s available today in Test Drive.   Follow us on Twitter Madhukar Kumar - twitter.com/madhukarkumar Dwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7 Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Nation - twitter.com/NutanixNation Resources Nutanix Test Drive - bit.ly/2tIqtet Nutanix Online Community - bit.ly/1zJ4aAK Nutanix Community Blog - bit.ly/2ECb14M Nutanix Customer XTribe - bit.ly/3cMvK61 Nutanix User Groups - bit.ly/NutanixUserGroup 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 s

This post was authored by Lakshana Rajendran and Laura Jordana, Technical Marketing Engineers A little over a month ago, we launched Nutanix Test Drive 2.1 (TD 2.1) to showcase easy-to-use, no-install Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) enabled by Nutanix Xi Leap. Xi Leap is natively integrated with AOS and Prism and utilizes the Nutanix Cloud, a subscription-based public cloud services platform, and features guaranteed SLAs. Read this blog post to see what you can do with the initial Test Drive coverage of Xi Leap. Today, we are pleased to inform you that these capabilities are enhanced with a new and improved Xi Leap deep dive (TD 2.1.6). A deep-dive lab allows you to explore selected topics further with an easy-to-follow guided tour. Read on to see what cool things you can do with the DRaaS Test Drive now! Deep-dive into Disaster Recovery as a Service Get started by navigating to our Xi Leap Test Drive site. You’ll receive an email with a link for direct access to your envir

This post was authored by Mark Andreopoulos, Nutanix System Architect When discussing Nutanix as an HCI solution, I often find myself steering conversations with my customers toward the power of the platform. Make no mistake about it, Nutanix provides a comprehensive platform (a full stack) for not only deploying and managing HCI, but also automating both application deployments, and mundane, manual operational tasks. The benefits of automation to an IT organization are undeniable, however to fully maximize the ROI, one might say that you are only as good as your lowest common denominator. If you are only able to automate one small step in a very large workflow, then how can you ensure the benefits are realized by the consumer and customers of said platform? This is where the power of the Nutanix platform really comes into play. Nutanix Calm provides an elegant way to model and deploy complex, multi-tier applications for various types of consumers. Couple this with Nutanix Prism Pro

This post was authored by Rebeca Kinslow, Content Marketing Team Recent analytics found that before COVID-19, 75 million U.S. employees (about 56% of the non-self-employed workforce) had jobs that are compatible with working from home. Amidst a global pandemic, there’s no doubt that 2020 will be marked by a great shift to working remotely. IT teams are feeling the pressure of being responsible for onboarding significant numbers of employees to remote workplaces and faster than ever before. Getting workers onboarded with virtual desktops and apps (VDI) is new to many, and it’s okay if you don’t have it all figured out yet. We asked our customers what their best tips were for working remotely using VDI. Check ‘em out: 1. Plan first, act second When something needs to get done quickly, our first instinct is to act. However, to make VDI deployments a true success, companies need to invest in taking the time to step back and evaluate what their users really need. Our customers said to

Inbox filled with wishes that you’ll stay “safe and well during these unprecedented times”? Give yourself a mental break and let yourself daydream about the first thing you’ll do once emails go back to just hoping they “find you well.” That’s what we asked our customers to do, and their answers made us smile. Take a look at our customers most frequent responses and share with us below in the comments how you answer the question: If you are a Nutanix customer be sure to register for an account with XTribe. Also check out the latest Nutanix Community Podcast where Christie Vaughan (Program lead for XTribe) talks about the program with two members from the program. 

Welcome to the Nutanix community podcast with Christie Vaughan and Angelo Luciani. This week on the podcast Christie and I chat with two very active members of the Nutanix XTribe customer program Bradley Burgess and Fasial Jawaid.. They are also Nutanix Technology Champions. We chat about the XTribe program, how you can get involved, types of activities to participate in and how to have the most fun with your peers and the community.   Follow us on Twitter Christie Vaughan Angelo Luciani Nutanix Nation Resources Nutanix Online Community Nutanix Community Blog Nutanix Customer XTribe Nutanix User Groups f 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