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Nutanix Files and Varonis Partner to Provide Data Visibility Across Your DatacenterBlog

As businesses digitally transform to meet new challenges and provide better customer experiences, their data is still growing exponentially. This means the places data is created and processed must also grow to match and handle this growth. With all of that data being created across so many different deployment locations, the problem of data blindness threatens data security and business continuity. To protect against these threats, businesses who live on data must attain greater visibility for all of their data so that they can protect it, store it properly, and monetize it to fuel growth.Data blindness is the inability to see what data your organization has created, how it's being stored, who is using it, and how they are using it. Nutanix created Nutanix Files™  with built-in data intelligence via rich metadata to solve the problem of data blindness. This includes metadata created that can tell administrators what type of data is being stored, the age of the data, and how it is bein

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Nutanix Lifecycle Management 2.6 is Here! Check out the Top 5 Coolest Features of LCMBlog

As new cybersecurity threats evolve, Nutanix has been hard at work improving the way you patch, upgrade, and operate your Nutanix Cloud Platform. We understand how critical and difficult patching and upgrading can be, especially in a world under constant attack. You must be resilient, and proper lifecycle management improves your cyber resilience!We know that upgrades can be a bit intimidating, but fear not! Nutanix is continually working to make the process smoother and more efficient. We’re thrilled to announce a new version of Nutanix Life Cycle Management (LCM), 2.6! 1. LCM Customs! Sleek New Pre-Upgrade / Update ChecksLCM 2.6 now allows you a dry-run of selected upgrade tasks for your Nutanix Cloud Platform. Quickly understand and reduce unexpected upgrade failures by running pre-checks, ensuring smooth upgrades.Think of it like a dry run, with just one click. AOS, PC, and ESXi in LCM are all supported.And that's not all - any module can call the NCC pre-check task, and we expect

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Nutanix Database Services: Database modernization with Era - Now AvailableBlog

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

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Nutanix Consolidated Storage Services are Ready for Multi-Cloud and Data AnywhereBlog

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

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Honey I Shrunk My Cluster (Multiple Nodes Down in RF2)Blog

This post was authored by Jeroen Tielen (Tielen Consultancy) Nutanix Technology ChampionWithin Nutanix we have Replication Factor (How many data copies are written in the cluster) and Redundancy Factor (how many nodes/disks can go offline). Both can have a value of 2 and 3. What is what is explained here: Blog Post.So, when we have a larger cluster, we always recommend using RF3 (Redundancy Factor 3) as the risk is higher that you have multiple nodes/disks go offline at the same time.During trainings and onsite customer work I often get the question, "what will happen if multiple nodes go offline in Redundancy Factor 2?" In this blog post I will explain different scenarios and their behaviors.My cluster is 7 nodes and configured with RF2 (Redundancy and Replication) and HA Reservation is enabled.I've got 30 Windows 11 VDI's (Yes, with vTPM ;)) running in the cluster and all load is spread across the nodes. This is the current usage on the cluster:Now 1 node will go offline. Or in my ca

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Experience Simple and Performant Data Consolidation with Nutanix ObjectsBlog

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

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Nutanix Files Storage Episode 4.4 - Synchronous Replication AwakensBlog

For mission-critical applications in various industries like banking, capital markets, insurance and healthcare, there is a need to support highly available synchronous data replication to ensure high level platform protection and availability. Providing this functionality is key for a business to function unhindered. The cost of data unavailability can be significant to a business, with some estimates measuring the impact at several thousand dollars per minute and upwards of six figures or more if the unavailability lasts for an hour or more. And this doesn’t take into account recoverability to the latest dataset right before the failure. With these types of dollar amounts, the inability to bring the system back to its latest data point can have a tremendous impact on the viability of a business. Customers need RPOs of zero to help ensure any incident that takes down a primary site will allow a secondary disaster recovery site to be brought online quickly with the latest copy of the d

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Nutanix Community Podcast: Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AzureBlog

This week on the podcast, Dwayne chats with Marc Trouard-Riolle, about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure and how to get started. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure enables your applications to be run where you want them, on-premises or in the public cloud, all operated as a single cloud.Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure Ready to test drive? Nutanix University YouTube PlaylistIf 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.

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Experience Simple and Intelligent Data Consolidation with Nutanix FilesBlog

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

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Nutanix Community Podcast - Certification and Education with NPX8Blog

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

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Building A Software and Application Strategy: Part 2 - ToolsBlog

This post was authored by Sachin Chheda Senior Director of Solutions and Verticals MarketingThis is the second last blog in the series on building a software and application strategy. Previous blogs in this series (here and here) explore IT’s desire to lay out a framework for applications and workloads. This blog continues the discussion by sharing information and practices on tools, evaluating choices for where applications and workloads can reside, and building a roadmap.Let’s start with the tools and the essential functionality in building an application strategy in a cloud world. In a recent informal Nutanix Xtribe community survey, members reported the following infrastructure tools they would include in their design guidelines:Provisioning tools: Deploy complex workloads (with multiple individual applications and functions), including the underlying infrastructure to run it. Self-service tools: Deliver a self-service mechanism to end-users, reducing their reliance on IT Ops. This

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Nutanix Calm: Introducing Snapshot and Restore ActionsBlog

The Nutanix Calm™ application orchestrator offers a powerful way to enable self-service and manage applications across hybrid clouds. While we continue to add more features to Calm, this blog post highlights and explains a new feature which allows application owners to take Snapshots of and Restore the services in an application running on Nutanix® Cloud Platform.Snapshot and Restore are two basic operations that are used by datacenter admins and IT admins during routine maintenance of applications. Previously, IT admins had to rely on scripting Snapshots and restoring tasks inside the blueprint or by using native Snapshot/Restore capabilities provided by the underlying cloud platforms.Calm 3.3.0 introduces Snapshot and Restore tasks for multi-VM blueprints. Keeping customer feedback in mind, our aim is to make the lives of Calm users simpler by providing configurable Snapshot and Restore tasks along with the already powerful orchestration capabilities of Nutanix Calm.Having Snapshot a

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Range-Based Replication Performance - The Tale of the TapeBlog

As a boxing fan in the 90’s and 2000’s, I watched the most famous boxers of the era rise from naturally-talented newcomers to dominators in the ring. And while their talent and hard work propelled them early in their careers, they were never satisfied with their current skills and conditioning. They continued to work hard on improving hand speed, movement, conditioning, and power en route to many years as champions of their respective weight classes. Now you may be asking yourself, what does boxing have to do with replication or Nutanix? Well, Nutanix, like the boxing legends we all know, continues to hone and improve our products with new capabilities, better performance, easier to navigate UI’s, etc. We don't have a “good enough” mindset where once we deliver a capability, we move onto the next. We continue to iterate and improve on it.To that end, Nutanix has delivered a more efficient method of replicating data from one  Nutanix AOS™ cluster to another AOS cluster for the purpose o

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Carbonite and Nutanix Eases Migration for YMCABlog

This post was authored by our friends at Carbonite Eager to enjoy the benefits of hyperconverged environments, moving to Nutanix is often on the top of many IT departments’ dream upgrade lists. But many IT shops are hesitant to incur the downtime costs of making the move. So, they put it off. IT professionals and partners must balance the benefits of upgrading IT systems with the immediate costs of downtime, and that balance is hard to strike. There’s never a good time to temporarily take everything offline. The logistical challenges of migrations prevent many IT departments from scheduling them—despite knowing they are due to bring their systems up to date. That’s how proactive upgrades become urgent, critical overhauls—rushed projects that cost even more time and money. The IT team at the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties in Tacoma, Washington escaped this cycle. By partnering with our team at Carbonite, the YMCA overcame their migration hurdles to retire 11 physical servers

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Three reasons to protect your Nutanix environment. Now.Blog

This post was authored by Amy Fair, Arcserve Target. Amazon. Equifax. The City of Baltimore. The City of Atlanta. What do they have in common? They have all experienced a data breach or outage that negatively affected their reputations and their customers or constituents. No entity is invincible, even with the best security software. But, making sure you have an airtight disaster recovery and business continuity (BCDR) plan is a simple step to help give you peace of mind that your data will be protected against natural and manmade disasters. The benefits of implementing a solid BCDR plan far outweigh the risks of not having one, so consider the following reasons you should have a data protection solution that works for your hyperconverged infrastructure. [h3]Protect your reputation and your revenue[/h3]Consider this: your company is hit with a data breach, exposing private customer data. The news hits the wire and if you lack a BCDR plan, chaos ensues. Customers sound off on soci

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Building the Foundation for the Financial Services Digital EnterpriseBlog

This post was authored by John Williamson, Kevin Lash, and Sachin Chheda, Nutanix No one in the financial services industry needs to be convinced of the importance of digital transformation and [url=https://www.nutanix.com/documents/white-papers/wp-enterprise-cloud-index-finserv.pdf]hybrid cloud adoption[/url]. Nearly every day we hear about major financial institutions like [url=https://www.simplilearn.com/digital-transformation-in-banking-article]JPMorgan[/url], [url=https://www.fintechmagazine.com/banking/santander-group-puts-aside-225bn-digital-transformation]Santander Group[/url], or [url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/ballooning-tech-budgets-and-pressure-from-fintech-drive-bank-mergers-like-bbt-and-suntrust--.html]SunTrust and BB&T[/url] investing billions--even 10s of billions--in digital initiatives. These companies have an array of objectives, including: [list] [*]Enhancing customer experiences by embracing the customer-centric practices of fintech and insurtech. [*]Lev

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Data Protection in the Digital EconomyBlog

This post was authored by our friends at Arcserve In today’s digital economy, businesses are driven by experience rather than quality products – the experience we, as consumers, are given from the companies we do business with. In our data-driven world, the introduction of the digital consumer and fusion of technologies have enabled business optimization. Now that an organization’s most critical asset is its data, the IT function is the single most critical aspect to a business either meeting – or not meeting – customer demand. Ensuring your business is always on for your customers is vital and why data protection and business continuity are critical components of any IT strategy. Unfortunately, no organization is completely immune to attacks – disaster can strike at any time, and in today’s digital economy the cost of downtime is more than just financial; it can cause irreparable damage to your brand reputation as well. We asked 759 global IT decision makers how confident they we

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Announcing Karbon Clusters 2.2Blog

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

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Run All of Your Business Critical Applications on Red Hat and NutanixBlog

This post was authored by Nimal Kunnath, Technical Marketing Engineer, NCM and Cloud Native ApplicationsSince the announcement of the strategic partnership of Nutanix and RedHat in 2021, the joint Engineering efforts have come a long way in delivering value to our customers. RHEL 9 has been supported on Nutanix since day 0. A Nutanix Prism collection has been added to the Red Hat Ansible Automation hub, providing the capability to automate Nutanix infrastructure. To further the integration, Red Hat’s full stack automated deployment of the OpenShift Container Platform, commonly known as Installer Provisioned Infrastructure method, is now available for the Nutanix Cloud Platform with the OpenShift 4.11 release. Devops and infrastructure teams can be truly delighted with the combination of the best PaaS on the best IaaS.In this blog, we will be looking at these updates in greater detail as well as understand how Nutanix provides the ideal platform for your Red Hat workloads.With businesse

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Protecting Your Business’s Data in the HCI AgeBlog

This post was authored by Devon Helms, Nutanix Senior Product Marketing Manager Moving from legacy (or heritage) systems to hyper-converged brings with it an array of advantages, including speed, simplicity, and operational efficiencies. Perhaps the biggest benefit is that modern infrastructure provided by HCI enables organizations to deal with the new realities of business. In the new business reality, performance needs change rapidly and require infrastructure to be dynamic enough to adapt to the changing needs. Administrators are expected to manage and protect an ever-growing amount of data and need simplicity and automation to handle the task. And the adoption of cloud requires the lines between on-prem and remote to be blurred. Legacy systems are simply not designed to cope with today’s high-performance requirements, with disparate compute and storage resources (often scattered over multiple sites and across clouds) creating layers that impact reliability - particularly in bus

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Cloud DR for Public SectorBlog

This post was authored by Tim Wallace, Head of Public Sector Industry Solutions, Nutanix A few years ago, and a few jobs removed from my current position at Nutanix, I recall visiting with a customer – a small police department, which used the company’s software for case management and evidence tracking. One comment really stands in my memory. When I asked what they did for [i]Disaster Recovery[/i], their IT consultant replied – “Oh, I have the backup disks from last week in the trunk of my car.” While this statement stuck in my mind, in reality it is not that uncommon, especially in smaller organizations. The challenge these organizations face is the cost - both in monetary terms and in complexity - of having a proper Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan. These plans are frequently left to the end, after all the operational architectures are completed, and sometimes forgotten until some event exposes the oversight. In today’s Cloud era, implementing proper Disaster Recovery

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Lower TCO Makes the Case for On-demand HCI in a Cloud-first WorldBlog

This post was authored by our friends at Cyxtera If you’re a Nutanix customer, you already know the benefits of using Hyper-converged Infrastructure on-premises or in your colocation data centers. You’re able to rationalize compute, storage and management, automate lifecycle management or repurpose nodes for new workloads that require a different operating environment. All of this saves you time and money. In the era of cloud-first, however, how can you justify the upfront CapEx outlay and time to provision HCI against the OpEx model and speed to provision cloud? The answer lies in more flexible consumption models, made possible by the [url=https://www.cyxtera.com/data-center-services/cxd-platform]Cyxtera On-demand Data Center platform[/url] (CXD). [b]Why CXD?[/b] CXD is an on-demand data center platform that enables you to point, click and provision connectivity and dedicated HCI nodes from a portal or API, in an OpEx consumption model. As such, it’s an ideal enterprise cl

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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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Better Together: Data Management with Nutanix and Veritas TechnologiesBlog

This post was authored by our friends at Veritas Data is the enterprise’s most valuable digital asset. Organizations seeking to identify new opportunities to derive value from their data must determine how effectively to manage and protect today’s modern workloads. For many, simplifying IT solutions with hyper-converged infrastructure is the best answer. IT professionals have turned to Nutanix to spend less time worrying about infrastructure and more time on the applications and services that power their businesses. [h3]Better Together: Nutanix and Veritas Technologies [/h3]The partnership between Nutanix and Veritas addresses these needs, combining industry-leading data protection with Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). NetBackup integrates with Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV), using the NetBackup Parallel Streaming framework, enabling enterprises to protect large data sets across a multi-hypervisor environment. The companies are building upon the success of our j

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Top 6 Ways AHV Makes Datacenters More CloudlikeBlog

This post was authored by Lauren Willard Nutanix We already know that Nutanix built hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to solve datacenter complexity issues. But you may not be aware that we also have our own virtualization offering, AHV (it’s not an acronym, I checked). AHV was created to further reduce complexity issues around virtualization and HCI. It’s the answer to merging and converging virtualization and is a crucial part of HCI. You can either bolt on a hypervisor or choose to have it integrated and built into your HCI product to gain additional benefits without the extra cost and time it takes to add it to your infrastructure. Integrating virtualization into HCI infrastructure allows you to be more application focused making your infrastructure more service-based. [h3]What are you paying for? [/h3]While you can use other virtualization solutions with our HCI, you may be paying for it unnecessarily. Nutanix includes a license to use AHV on our HCI platform at no additio

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