5 Essential Tips for Maximizing Your Experience at Nutanix .NEXT for Bloggers
Derek Seaman blogged about the now renamed Move 3.0 on his site. https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/03/nutanix-move-3-0-formerly-xtract-for-vms-now-ga.html Here is the crux...New to Move 3.0: Move services are now Dockerised and all Move and Move Agent Services now run as Docker Containers. Architecturally, this is an important milestone as we “servicify” move and provide the ability to add/update features without much service disruption as well as providing flexibility to run Move anywhere. GA release of Hyper-V as a source, adding to source list of ESXi and AWS 1-click upgrade of Move. (Support for dark sites is coming) Further enhancements to User Experience for Large VM migration with enhanced status updates on the UI Support for a Mixed mode of Source VM setup by allowing for a mix of automatically prepared source VMs and manually prepared source VMs in a migration plan. Support for PEM based authentication for Linux source VMs running on ESXi source What
Ray Hassan from our solution engineering team has blogged about Elasticsearch on his site cannybag.com (don't ask :-) Here are some relevant blogs worth sharing: * http://cannybag.com/2015/10/elk-on-nutanix-elasticsearch/ * http://cannybag.com/2018/08/elasticsearch-sizing-on-nutanix/ Elasticsearch is also available as a pre-seeded app blueprint through Calm -- https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Nutanix-Calm-Admin-Operations-Guide-v57:nuc-launching-elastic-search-app-blueprint-t.html Gabe Contreras, consulting architect in our services team is also writing up a blog about Elasticsearch on Nutanix that will be published soon. @aluciani or I will post the link here as a reply once its posted.
@joshodgers has posted an interesting blog on his site on a new AHV feature -- Compute Only nodes. The concept of Compute Only node will enable infra teams to give their application and DB admin counterparts more CPU/Memory per node. Nutanix clusters can now be made up of compute only and storage only nodes minimizing if not eliminating any licensing concerns they had in the past for workloads like Oracle, SQL Server etc. Best practices for setting high performance databases will be coming soon. Reply back in this thread to let our Database SMEs know if you have specific questions you'd like them to address in their best practices. Excerpts from his blog -- http://www.joshodgers.com/2019/02/20/solving-oracle-sql-licensing-challenges-with-nutanix/ >> Compute only nodes compliment the traditional HCI nodes (Compute+Storage) as well as our unique Storage Only Nodes which were introduced in mid 2015. >> Compute Only allows scale up and out of CPU/RAM resources where applicatio
Wanted ask the community for some feedback on the topic of SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support. My fellow Nutanix Solutions team members @gregwhite @Chris Paap, myself and others were discussing about SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support and how that would impact IT? Can you help us by sharing your thoughts, actions, tools around DB/app upgrades, migration etc related to SQL Server 2008/R2? You can take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ2NWXS
We are collecting the community’s input on what is driving where they run their applications and why. Share your input on the attributes and factors that are influencing where your applications are being hosted and run by taking the survey here -- https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/app_attributes_survey Also, if you are interested you can read the first of the blog series on this topic here -- https://www.nutanix.com/blog/whats-driving-where-you-run-your-it-applications-and-services.
Nutanix Tech Marketing Engineer Andy Daniel wrote up a short paragraph recently as an overview to the Storage efficiency features including compression. Share what you are doing for your different workloads in your environments (Nutanix or otherwise). -- To optimize storage capacity and accelerate application performance, the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric uses data efficiency techniques such as deduplication, compression, and erasure coding. They are intelligent & adaptive, and in most cases, require little or no fine-tuning. In fact, two levels of post-process compression are enabled in conjunction with cold data classification by default on new shipping clusters. Because they’re entirely software driven, it also means existing customers can take advantage of new capabilities and enhancements by upgrading AOS. DSF provides both inline and post-process compression to maximize capacity. Many times, customers incorrectly associate compression with reduced performance, but this
has written a great blog on how to deploy and deliver virtual desktops through XenDesktop running on Acropolis Hypervisor using 8 simple steps in a short crisp blog -- http://blog.myvirtualvision.com/2015/12/03/nutanix-acropolis-xendesktop-8-simple-steps/. Worth a read!
One of the greatly anticipated features of the AOS 5.0 has been the Nutanix Metro Witness functionality. There have been numerous blogs on this feature, but joshodgers blog (published at http://www.joshodgers.com/2016/06/15/whats-next-2016-metro-availability-witness/ )goes through the feature in great detail with different failure scenarios. A must read if you are using Nutanix Metro Availability today or planning to do so with AOS 5.0. Another must read is the Metro Availability Best Practices Guide (from mmcghee). From Jon Witness download is here: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/static/supportTools Witness documentation is here: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v50:sto-metro-availa...
Chris Brown, solution technical manager here at Nutanix wrote a blog series on the topic of building and delivering cloud services using Nutanix. Wanted to share the links in a single location: Service Providers: Profitable Services Built on Top of Enterprise Clouds: https://www.nutanix.com/2016/03/17/service-providers-profitable-services-built-on-top-of-enterprise-clouds/ Elevate your DaaS solution with a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud: http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/Elevate-your-DaaS-solution-with-a-Nutanix-Enterprise-Cloud/ba-p/9302 A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Lets Managed Service Providers Focus on Customers Not Infrastructure: http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/A-Nutanix-Enterprise-Cloud-Lets-Managed-Service-Providers-Focus/ba-p/10064 Nutanix Enterprise Cloud: Flexible Deployment Options for IaaS: https://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/Nutanix-Enterprise-Cloud-Flexible-Deployment-Options-for-IaaS/ba-p/10614 Enterprise Cloud for Service P
Tim Wallace, who leads out public sector solutions marketing efforts has a Nutanix community blog coming out talking about the value of Xi Leap for Public Sector including education institutions. Nutanix also has numerous service provider partners (www.nutanix.com/x-powered) that offer Nutanix powered DRaaS for customer's hosted and on-prem deployment. What are some of the reasons why you would consider DRaaS and Xi Leap in your environment? Share with your peers.
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