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bharadsabnis
Nutanix Employee
bharadsabnisNutanix Employee
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Understanding Layer 2 Stretch in Nutanix DRaaSBlog

In the Nutanix® DRaaS Infrastructure, there is a tenant cluster and a production VPC for each customer. Generally, customers will have production VMs running on the On-prem cluster. Customers connect their On-prem environment with the Nutanix DRaaS VPC using an IPSec tunnel, which is used by the DRaaS workflow for replicating On-prem production data. During a Disaster Recovery (DR) situation or while running DR Tests, customers would want to failover their VMs from On-prem to a cluster in the DRaaS service.When this happens, usually all VMs in one subnet of an On-prem network (e.g., 192.168.10.0/24) are failed over to the DRaaS service. If the customer chooses to preserve the IP, VMs in the DRaaS service come up with the same IPs as On-prem (e.g., 192.168.10.0/24 network). In such DR situations, customers can certainly choose only certain critical VMs to be replicated, but in those cases, on-prem VMs cannot communicate with VMs in the DR target.WHY, you may wonder?The reason behind thi

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bharadsabnis
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
yangzhi.zhao
Nutanix Employee
yangzhi.zhaoNutanix Employee
published in Community Blog
Nutanix Frame + ServiceNow Step-by-Step Integration!Blog

Nutanix and ServiceNow have built a strong partnership over the years, and the collaboration continues as we look to deliver even more benefits for our mutual customers! One example of this is to see just how easy it is to integrate the Nutanix Frame Desktop-as-a-Service with the ServiceNow workflow solution to easily onboard and provision apps and desktops to new users!PrerequisitesThird-Party Identity Provider (supported by Nutanix Frame and ServiceNow)Note: For the purposes of this demo, we will be leveraging Okta as our Identity Provider - but you can use your supported identity provider of choice in a very similar approach. Install and configure the Okta Spoke within your ServiceNow instance (requires an IntegrationHub subscription). Detailed instructions available here. Nutanix Frame Subscription with one or more Organizations, Accounts, and Launchpads configured.Okta Spoke available in the ServiceNow StoreSummaryIn this demo, we have created two separate Frame Accounts for our u

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yangzhi.zhao
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
StuB
StuBTrailblazer
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What it means to be a Nutanix Technology Champion in 2022Blog

Being accepted onto the NTC program for 2022 is the culmination of four years of working with the technology that has quite literally been life changing for me. I know that might sound clichéd, but those who know me well, know that six years ago I had truly fallen out of love with the world of IT, a world that had been my (work) life from the age of nineteen. I had been too long in a stagnant environment! I was bored, I felt couped up in stuffy offices, and needed a change, so I enrolled with the Open University here in the UK to read Environmental Science with a view to a complete career change.A New StartThen four and a half years ago I moved to a new role with a new employer, I became aware of Nutanix and became a customer. As a technology, it made me sit up and take notice, but more than that, as a community of people I was exposed to - Nutanix employees, their partners, and their customers – there was a buzz I hadn’t experienced for too long! I’m not ashamed to say that I found my

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
mmcgheeNutanix Employee
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Nutanix Files 4.0 New Features: Smart DR EnhancementsBlog

Introduced with the Nutanix Files™ release 3.8, Smart DR brought share-level replication between active file server instances for disaster recovery. If you’re not yet familiar with Smart DR, you can get an overview of the feature and its benefits here. Shortly after its initial release, Nutanix introduced 1-minute replication interval support with the Files 3.8.1 release. The recent Files release 4.0 further enhances Smart DR with scalability improvements and self-service restore (SSR) integration.ScalabilitySmart DR allows for file server share replication regardless of the storage density of the physical nodes, but Smart DR did come with the limitation of supporting up to 25 shares for replication. Files 4.0 increases this limit to replicating up to 100 shares between file servers. Replication is supported down to 1-minute replication intervals for up to 25 shares. The remaining shares can support down to 10-minute intervals.SSR InteroperabilityNutanix Files has long supported SSR sn

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
mmcgheeNutanix Employee
published in Community Blog
Nutanix Files 4.0 New Features: Performance ImprovementsBlog

The Nutanix Files™storage solution introduces new enhancements in its newest 4.0 release that improve client performance, enhance file server compute efficiency, and deliver a consistent experience in mixed environments.  We’ve also done some scalability testing we’re excited to share.Improving Synchronous Random Write Performance CPU Scheduling with NFS Flow Control with Nutanix Volumes Pushing the Performance EnvelopeImproving Synchronous Random Write PerformanceTo help take advantage of storage class memory technologies like Intel’s Optane® product line, Nutanix Files 4.0 creates separate high speed log devices placed on the fastest storage tier of the Nutanix cluster. Each file system associated with a share will include log devices either on initial creation or upon upgrade to Files 4.0. Use of the high speed log has shown to improve sustained synchronous random write performance. Synchronous writes are required when setting SMB shares to be continuously available (CA.)  CPU Sched

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
published in Community Blog
Nutanix Community Blog: 2021 Top 5 Blog PostsBlog

We continue our countdown to 2022, with a recap of the top 5 community blogs based on pageviews. We covered a wide variety of topics, with the intention of informing, inspiring and providing instruction on our latest products and developments. So with that here are the top 5 most viewed community blogs.1️⃣Make your Mark in 2022 and Become a Nutanix Technology ChampionThis program recognizes Nutanix hybrid multicloud experts for their ongoing and consistent external contributions to the community and industry. Nutanix Technology Champions are our advocates and technology ambassadors who influence change with practical advice and bold ideas.2️⃣File Auditing and Analytics for your Nutanix Files Enterprise CloudFrom enterprise applications to the internet of things (IoT), the number of connected devices which produce data is growing at a staggering rate. Business Insider forecasts that by 2020 more than 24 billion internet-connected devices will be installed around the globe. It’s no wonde

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aluciani
2 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Nutanix Community Podcast: 2021 Top 5 Popular EpisodesBlog

2021 is coming to an end and I wanted to highlight some of our most popular podcast episodes. This gives me insights into what is top of mind for our community in terms of topics. If you have some downtime, consider re-listening to an episode. Thank you to all our podcast listeners who have continued to listen week after week.Let me know if there is a topic you are interested in and I can work on getting an expert to share their thoughts for 2022. Also if you are interested in joining me and Dwayne on the podcast, let me know and we can make that happen.So with that here are the top 5 popular episodes for 2021.1️⃣ NVIDIA GPUs and Benefits for EUCThis 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.2️⃣ Nutanix + Red Hat NewsThis week my co-host Dwayne Lessner chats with Luke Congdon from our product management team to talk abou

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aluciani
2 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Welcome to the 2022 Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC)Blog

I am delighted to share our list of Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC) for 2022. 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.COVID has continued to make our lives challenging, but these NTCs continued in the face of unprecedented uncertainty, delivering the applications and services their companies, and clients need.Although remote, 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 #Nutanix.One more thing - What can I do if I did not make the list this year? Don't worry things don't end here. Connect with me on the community site @aluciani  and let's work together in getting you po

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ayushkapoor
Nutanix Employee
ayushkapoorNutanix Employee
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Configuring Policies and Rerouting Internet/VM Traffic from Virtual Appliance on Xi to On-Prem FirewallBlog

Administrators need to create policies on Xi to allow the traffic for the floating IP and reroute policies to reroute traffic through the vPAN.If the requested floating IP was 206.80.155.166, which was assigned to the management interface of the PAN 10.250.0.2, you would need to open the traffic for this IP or subnet to go out to the internet. You would need to create a policy that has a higher priority PBR rule (higher value of priority rule takes the precedence); however, you would need to give this new policy a higher priority number than our reroute policy. This policy will be created for the internal subnet 10.250.0.0/24 and not for the floating IP itself.To create a policy:Go to Explore > Virtual private clouds > Production > Policies. Select Create Policies.You would need to create policies in both directions (i.e. from the Internet to the 10.250.0.0/24 subnet to allow the traffic, and from 10.250.0.0/24 to the Internet to allow the traffic) as seen in the following scr

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ayushkapoor
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
ayushkapoor
Nutanix Employee
ayushkapoorNutanix Employee
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Deploying a Palo Alto Networks Virtual Appliance on XiBlog

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

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ayushkapoor
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
ayushkapoor
Nutanix Employee
ayushkapoorNutanix Employee
published in Community Blog
Palo Alto Networks Appliance Deployment RecommendationsBlog

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

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ayushkapoor
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
published in Community Blog
Nutanix Community Podcast: Log4j Security VulnerabilityBlog

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

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aluciani
2 years ago
laura_jordana
Nutanix Employee
laura_jordanaNutanix Employee
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Set Up An Approval Workflow in Test DriveBlog

The Nutanix X-Play™ tool is a simple low-code/no-code automation feature built into the Nutanix Prism® management controller that helps you automate routine operations and tasks, and provides the ability to auto-remediate issues that may occur.Using the X-Play tool, you can define a set of actions or a series of actions (called a “playbook”) based on a trigger, such as an event, alert, or an incoming webhook. For example, you can set up a playbook so when an alert about a VM’s memory being constrained is detected, the playbook can automatically add a specified amount of memory to the VM.But what if you didn’t want this to automatically happen, but rather you wanted to route through an approval workflow so that an admin would have to approve the change before the memory was added? In this video, we give you a walkthrough how to set up an integrated automation process with ServiceNow describing exactly this.With the latest Test Drive update, you can set up a similar flow using our demo t

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laura_jordana
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
published in Community Blog
Nutanix Community Podcast: Running Nutanix on NutanixBlog

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

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aluciani
2 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
published in Community Blog
Nutanix Community Podcast: Cybersecurity Fireside Chat Theresa PaytonBlog

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

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aluciani
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aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Nutanix Community Podcast: Mythbusters: Cloud edition “Go to the cloud”Blog

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

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aluciani
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aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Deploying JFrog Container Registry on Nutanix KarbonBlog

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

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3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Nutanix Community Podcast: Cloud Innovations and Hybrid MulticloudBlog

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

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
mmcgheeNutanix Employee
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Nutanix Files 4.0 New Features: New GUIBlog

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

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
mmcgheeNutanix Employee
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Nutanix Files 4.0 New Features: Smart TierBlog

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

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Nutanix Community Podcast: AOS 6.0 and HCI InnovationsBlog

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

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aluciani
3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Hybrid Cloud with TCS and NutanixBlog

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

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aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Nutanix Community Podcast: The Path Forward and The Cloud Cost ParadoxBlog

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

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aluciani
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ayushkapoor
Nutanix Employee
ayushkapoorNutanix Employee
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How To Enable Workload Communication Between On-premises And DRaaSBlog

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

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Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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The Journey to AHV Metro-AvailabilityBlog

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

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