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Nutanix Community Podcast Calm SaaS General AvailabilityBlog

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Jasnoor Gill and Maynak Gupta. Jasnoor is Sr. Director, Product Management and Mayank is Director, Product Marketing. They discuss Calm SaaS, how it works, and how to get started. Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-calm-saas-general-availability Follow us on Twitter Jasnoor Gill - twitter.com/jasnoorgill Mayank Gupta - twitter.com/MayankGDrive Dwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7 Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Community - twitter.com/NutanixNation Resources Nutanix Community Blog - next.nutanix.com Nutanix Customer XTribe - customerxtribe.influitive.com Nutanix User Groups - next.nutanix.com/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. Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google Be sure to register for our annual .NEXT user

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AIOps & Automation Test Drive: Additional Playbook Ideas - Increase Memory of a VM AutomaticallyBlog

The Nutanix® Test Drive for AIOps & Automation simulator allows you to explore the Nutanix X-Play tool and configure playbooks to perform automated tasks based on alerts and events. This blog series will walk you through more playbook ideas and actions that can be performed on your Nutanix Test Drive or on your own Nutanix platform. If you haven’t signed up for Test Drive yet, navigate to the AIOps & Automation tab on the Nutanix Test Drive landing page. Test Drive gives you a hands-on experience with a real Nutanix cluster running in your web browser with no software or hardware required. Once you’re signed up, you can follow along to create this playbook in your Test Drive environment. Let’s get started! What is X-Play? X-Play is a simple low-code/no-code automation tool built into the Nutanix Prism management controller that helps you automate routine operations and tasks, and provides the ability to auto-remediate issues that may occur. Playbooks allow you to define a set of action

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Sureline enables Nutanix customers to migrate from complex environments to AHVBlog

While Nutanix has grown and matured, so has its customer base. With much broader adoption comes a wide variety of legacy applications from complex infrastructures that benefit by migrating to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. Sureline Systems tackles the challenges of migration from these complex environments. What Makes Migration from Complex Environments Challenging? Complexity comes from a variety of factors that need to be handled correctly to avoid any negative impact on the migrated applications or cause needless delays. A migration solution needs to migrate servers that are running on physical servers, hypervisors including VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, and other major cloud infrastructures. It must also support migration of both Microsoft Windows and Linux servers. But complexity is not just in the platform, it is also in the nuances of the version of the operating system that the application is running on, and how the data is stored on persistent disk on drives, volumes, and file

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Nutanix File Data Migrations and Data Management with KompriseBlog

Enterprise IT organizations across industries are facing explosive data growth and are struggling to manage data within tight budgets. Nutanix and Komprise help enable companies to do more with less—Nutanix simplifies IT infrastructure and delivers cloud-like economics, and Komprise makes it easy to identify, migrate, and manage the right data on Nutanix. The result is greater efficiency, simpler management, and lower costs. Key use cases with Komprise and Nutanix covered in this post include: Analytics and Planning: In most enterprises, over 80% of data is cold and not accessed in over a year, yet it continues to consume expensive storage and backup resources. Komprise analyzes across your NAS and cloud data to identify the right data to move to Nutanix and the savings you can expect. File Data Migrations to Nutanix: Migrate file data up to 27 times faster with reliable MD5 checksums on every file. Manage hundreds of migrations with a single console. Transparent Data Archiving/Tiering

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Automating your IT Operations on Nutanix Test Drive!Blog

We are excited to introduce our latest update to Nutanix Test Drive - AI Ops and Automation! This Test Drive allows you to quickly try out capacity planning, playbooks, application automation, and more! Nutanix Test Drive is a way for you to easily experience the Nutanix platform on your time through your web browser. From this landing page , you can explore different use cases without having to install any software or configure any hardware. AI Ops and Automation Start exploring AI Ops and Automation on Nutanix by navigating to the AI Ops & Automation tab on the Nutanix Test Drive landing page. Once you are logged in, you will be presented with the Automate Operations menu. If you don’t see this menu for any reason, you can navigate to it from the main menu by clicking on Automate Operations -> IT Automation. Note: At any point during the guided tour, you can exit the tour by clicking the X in the top-right corner of the current window. You can return to the guided tour by clicking on

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Nutanix Community Podcast: Nutanix Files and EUCBlog

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Jarian Gibson . They discuss Nutanix Files with EUC, and Nutanix Files deployments. It’s a great technical talk where they really get into the details. Follow us on Twitter Jarian Gibson Dwayne Lessner Angelo Luciani Nutanix Community Resources Simple, Flexible, Intelligent File Storage Nutanix Files Delivers End-User Computing Without Compromise 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 the series by seeing what you have to say. Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google Be sure to register for our annual .NEXT user conference happening September 20-23, 2021 online. It’s Cloud on your terms.

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Nutanix Storage Solutions Recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Vendor for Distributed File Systems and Object StorageBlog

Being deeply customer focused means developing a deep understanding of your customers needs and challenges and then developing solutions that help. Nutanix has been focused on the customer since inception, it’s one of our core principles. And that goes for our storage products. That is why we are so pleased to have been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. Gartner Peer Insights is a free peer review and rating platform designed for enterprise software and service decision makers. Nutanix Files and Nutanix Objects solutions were first included on the Gartner Peer Insights list as a discrete product in the summer of 2020 and within a very short time, received over 56 peer reviews with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5*, one of the highest in the distributed file systems and object storage space. As a result of our rapid and highly favorable customer feedback, we are one of only five companies to place in the top right qu

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Nutanix Move - Simpler, Faster, Better: AWS Migrations Rearchitected!Blog

The Nutanix Move tool (formerly known as Xtract) is a cross-hypervisor mobility solution initially introduced to help customers migrate VMs onto the Nutanix platform with minimal downtime. Since the underlying infrastructures differ, a small amount of downtime is incurred during cutover from the source platform to the target. Since its introduction, Nutanix has enhanced the Move ™ tool to support a variety of lift and shift migrations, including migrations to and from AWS ® EC2 instances. T he latest release of Nutanix Move 3.7, launched in January 2021, makes AWS migrations much simpler, with a smoother UI workflow, improved security, more reliable migration process, and increased performance. Nutanix Move Background Starting with the Move 1.0 release, we had a framework that provided the foundation for workload migrations among Nutanix AHV and other hypervisors and cloud platforms. In 2018, the Move Engineering team added support for Amazon EC2 migrations. Nutanix Move leverages publ

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Nutanix Files 3.8 and File Analytics 3.0Blog

Nutanix Files is a software defined, flexible, file storage service. Since its early access release in 2016, Files has been focused on simplifying and consolidating network attached storage (NAS) for the enterprise and supporting use cases from end user computing through video surveillance and medical imaging. In parallel, Nutanix engineering has been executing on act two, evolving Files into an intelligent data management platform for the hybrid cloud . One of the first steps in this second act was introducing File Analytics in 2019, a native and integrated software offering to help you audit user activity, detect anomalies, and derive deeper insights into your unstructured data. With the release of Nutanix Files 3.8 and File Analytics 3.0 we progress further into act two, delivering more flexible and efficient remote replication to help enable hybrid cloud disaster recovery. We also extend File Analytics to include native ransomware intelligence, custom reporting capabilities, and da

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How to Deploy IoT Projects FasterBlog

The Internet of Things (IoT) landscape is a jungle. The sheer number of IoT platforms, portals, and solutions makes it extremely difficult to choose the right solution to a given problem. When working with IoT, you get used to a lot of trial and error, running tests, and doing proof of concept (POC) installations. Having a stable and flexible platform for running those installations and tests becomes crucial. I have worked in the IoT space for several years with customers of varying organization sizes, ranging from large private enterprises, to public-sector, to small startups. Throughout my experience, I spent a disproportionate amount of time designing and setting up infrastructure for running my tests or POCs. In this blog, I demonstrate how the Nutanix® Karbon™ Platform Services (KPS) platform-as-a-service offering simplifies deploying infrastructure, running quick POCs, and providing stable production environments for IoT use cases. KPS accelerates innovation by freeing you to foc

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Dbvisit Standby Certified for Nutanix AHVBlog

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

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Private Cloud Infrastructure Orchestration at ScaleBlog

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 custo

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Nutanix Xi Leap disaster recovery service receives SOC 2 Type 2 & SOC 3 AttestationBlog

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

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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 Support While 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 Improvements Karbon Clusters 2.2, gives users the ability to forward Kubernetes cluster and application logs to external servers or endpoints. Previously

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Simplifying the Mundane IT Tasks with Intelligent OperationsBlog

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

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Nutanix Community Podcast: NVIDIA GPUs and Benefits for EUCBlog

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 Twitter Kees Baggerman Angelo Luciani Dwayne Lessner 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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Invisible Support for Invisible InfrastructureBlog

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 stack 2020: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure stack The 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 Pr

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Welcome to the 2021 Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC)Blog

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 th

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Learn How Nutanix Blockstore Transforms Core Data Path to Leverage NVMe and SPDKBlog

This post was authored by Bhavik Desai, Nutanix Nutanix 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 f

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Nutanix Community Podcast: AOS 5.19Blog

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 Twitter Angelo Luciani Dwayne Lessner 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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Deploying Contrail SDN Controller in a Nutanix ClusterBlog

This post was authored by Amin Aflatoonian, Enterprise Architect Nutanix In 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. Deployment To 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 architecture Because 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

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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 scale A 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 N

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Nutanix Calm Powers Nutanix Test DriveBlog

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 Creation The first step is creating a nested Nutanix that can run on a wide variety of infrastructure

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Nutanix Community Podcast: Citrix on Nutanix ClustersBlog

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 Twitter Kees Baggerman Aaron Delp Angelo Luciani Dwayne Lessner Resources Citrix 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 i

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2021 Nutanix Technology Champion Applications Are Open!Blog

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 Supp

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