5 Essential Tips for Maximizing Your Experience at Nutanix .NEXT for Bloggers
One of the awesome things about community, is the sharing and learning that can happen. It's always encouraging to see others want to help solve problems they are not directly involved in, offer new idea's to old problems and look for new ways of doing things. It also helps me connect people who may have similar interests, and can benefit from sharing their experiences. I thought this would be a great place to share what you are working on, get introduced to the community and let us know how we can help. Add your comments below, and let's begin the conversation. We have an EPIC community, let's connect and help each other power the next generation of enterprise computing. Community Manager,
This powerhouse of IT pros is a melting pot of brilliance, spanning every cloud, application and tech realm. Their diverse backgrounds and mastery are the driving force behind innovative solutions that are shaping the hybrid multicloud landscape.These champions aren't just tech wizards; they're mentors, motivators, and community builders. They've spent the past year paving the way for others and proving that true strength comes from collaboration.As we gear up for another thrilling year, take a moment to connect, share your victories and spread the excitement on social media using #Nutanix. This community is a powerhouse of knowledge, and the learning opportunities are boundless.Missed the cut this time? Fear not! Reach out on our community site @ntnx_angelo and let's strategize for your triumphant entry in 2025.Now, here's a secret weapon few unleash: Start today. Create a hybrid multicloud legacy with a public showcase of your expertise. Dreaming of a YouTube channel? Launch it now.
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 this y
Welcome to our 2023 Nutanix Technology Champions!This group of IT professionals consists of members from every cloud, application, and technology group. Their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and expertise help their organizations and the virtualization community to approach challenges from new perspectives.They continued to mentor, help, and encourage others, while demonstrating what it means to be part of a community.I am eagerly awaiting another exciting year and learning from many of you. Take some time to get to know each other and congratulate each other on social media with the hashtag #Nutanix.What can I do if I didn't 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 to get you positioned for 2024.Here is a little secret that 99% of people never do. Get started today, begin creating a body of work you can showcase publicly. Want to start a YouTube channel? Start today! Want to start that 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
Cool GitHub project - Kubernetes installation tools for Nutanix. Give it a try and add your comments in this forum. I'm sure RedDevil would like to hear your feedback. Download here: https://github.com/nutanix/k8s
For those running Docker, check out > Nutanix Container Volume Plug-in on the Docker store. Nutanix Volume Plugin enables container persistent storage. Try it out today and let me know your experience.
The 2022 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) applications are open!We are accepting submissions up to November 2, 2021, at midnight PST. We will announce the new group in December 2021.This 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.The NTC program provides unique opportunities to expand their knowledge further, amplify their brand, and help shape the future of the hybrid multicloud.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 Caree
What a great way to start the new decade, here are your 2020 Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC). 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. Last year we introduced the NTC Elite designation and this year I am excited to add one more person to that list. The power of mentoring and encouraging others to strive for more is what being part of a community is all about. NTC Elite is for those that have also earned their NPX designation. This past year has been opportunity for us to see other grow, learn and get out of their comfort zone. From blogging, running user groups and being fully immersed in our .NEXT conference experience. 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 hash
This post was authored by Dwayne Lessner Principal Technical Marketing Engineer Nutanix There is an old saying, “The devil is in the details”. If you have ever assumed something and then had to pay more, fix something or be left in a spot were what you bought wasn’t going to work, you have felt this pain. Late last year I wrote an article around the importance of Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) along with providing the Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). I wanted to share some more technical details of my on-premises lab cluster that I am using to connect to the Xi East Region. I want to prove Xi Leaps SLA around RTO while maintaining performance of your application when you do failover. Proven ResultsDuring my testing I was able to achieve: A restore time under 8 sec per VM The same virtual machine on-prem or in Xi could achieve the same performance, +600,000 transaction per minute Nutanix snapshots are efficient over the wire to Xi when creating VMs from the same image
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
This post was authored by Saad Azam Education & Community Marketing Specialist at Nutanix. Help build the future NCAP! The Nutanix Certification team has been busy developing an update for the Nutanix Certified Advanced Professional (NCAP) program to cover AOS 5.10 – and it’s now ready for beta testing at no charge. But there is a catch – the beta exam is only open to the first 100 people to complete it. After that, we’ll pull the results and begin working towards the live exam. Beta testers are also a critical part of the exam development process, and Nutanix is one of the few companies to open this process to the public. We hope you’ll take part and support the program’s success. To get started, Review the exam blueprint guide Register just like you would any other exam Enter discount code W5C3U2XT at check out to remove the exam fee Frequently asked questions How do Beta Exams differ from Live Exams? Beta exams are a little different from a fully live (or GA) exam, in a couple
Looking to save on Nutanix University training and certification, including the NCA, NCP, or NCM exams? Here's the current list of available discounts. (Updated: April 22, 2024) Free Certification Exams at .NEXT Barcelona.NEXT attendees have the opportunity to take the Nutanix NCA, NCP, NCSE, NCS-Core, or NCM certification exam onsite at no charge (up to $299 value). Learn more and register. Nutanix Partners: Deepen your technical + services skills with Nutanix Surge!We’re providing FREE Nutanix certification exam vouchers to partners authorized to sell Nutanix through July 31, 2024. Begin or deepen your Nutanix learning journey by taking advantage of this promotion today! Learn more and get started. (partners only) Free Exam Vouchers with Instructor-Led TrainingStudents receive a free exam voucher after attending an instructor-led training course: Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals Enterprise Cloud Administration Advanced Administration and Performance Management Nutanix Unified Sto
The 2020 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) applications are open. We are accepting submissions up to November 8, 2019, at midnight PST. We will announce the new group in December 2019.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 Support
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 Support
The applications for the 2024 Nutanix Technology Champion are open.Please note that we are accepting submissions until November 2, 2023, at midnight PST. We expect to announce the new group in December 2023.This program acknowledges Nutanix hybrid multicloud experts for their ongoing and consistent external contributions to the community and industry. Our Nutanix Technology Champions are our advocates and technology ambassadors, influencing change with practical guidance and bold ideas.The NTC program presents unique opportunities for individuals to enhance their knowledge, enhance their brand, and contribute to shaping the future of hybrid multicloud.Members of the program get the following benefits:Early access briefings about Nutanix products and announcements. Private beta testing and insight into product development are available. Participation in exclusive meetings with the engineering teams. Access to discussions with internal teams on the Nutanix NTC Slack channel. Unique activ
AOS integrates storage, compute and networking resources into a scalable, secure, resilient and easy-to-use software-defined infrastructure.Please review the release notes before deployment for all productsAOS 6.5 is a long-term supported (LTS) release that builds upon a mature and proven AOS codebase that contains the new and updated features from the following AOS 6.0 and AOS 6.1 (short-term supported (STS)) releases since the previous LTS release and the bug fixes from all the releases in the AOS 6.0 and AOS 6.1 branches:New and Updated Features | AOS 6.0 New and Updated Features | AOS 6.0.1 New and Updated Features | AOS 6.0.2 New and Updated Features | AOS 6.1 New and Updated Features | AOS 6.1.1Requirements and Considerations | AOS 6.5Requirements for Virtual Switch Migration During UpgradeThe AOS upgrade process initiates the virtual switch migration. The virtual switch migration is successful only when certain requirements are fulfilled. Before you upgrade to AOS, read the Virt
Nutanix provides an external volume plug-in for Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operation of application containers across a cluster of hosts. This cluster of hosts can be made up of cloud provider VM instances, Nutanix-hosted VMs, or bare metal servers. Kubernetes is formed with multiple VMs and a master node. This plug-in runs in a pod and dynamically provisions requested persistent volume that is compatible with the Kubernetes iSCSI volume. Nutanix then provides persistent storage for the provisioned volume. Storage classes also have provisioners which determine which volume plugin should be used for provisioning Persistent Volumes. Read more about it here Try the Kubernetes Volume Plug-In with CE 5.5
This post was authored by Michael Haigh, Technical Marketing Engineer NutanixCountless studies have shown that reducing the amount of time for developers to receive feedback on code changes improves software quality. Automating the build, test, and deployment of software with tools such as Jenkins is one of the best ways to accelerate software development. If you’re unfamiliar with Jenkins you can learn more on their website here.In this blog post, we’ll walk through deploying Jenkins onto Nutanix Karbon with a Helm chart. We’ll then configure an example GitHub repository for our code base. Each time we push our local code changes to our GitHub repo, a Jenkins pipeline will be initiated, which will build our new docker image, push that image to DockerHub, and automatically update the deployed application.CI/CD with Nutanix Karbon and JenkinsSince this will be a more involved post than usual, we’ll be breaking it up into a 3 part series. Stay tuned for the next posts in the coming
Linux containers have been with us for a while, but companies like Docker have taken it to the mainstream in the last several years. For system administrators who manage virtual environments day to day, the introduction of containers from development teams may cause some anxiety.Should containers be treated differently, or do system administrator need to know when to deploy containers?Matt Hartley has recently published a good write up on it in Datamation.Article: Linux Containers vs Virtual MachinesOne of the first things to understand about containers vs. virtual machines is that containers are used for applications, and the virtual machines are designed for entire operating systems, and Matt mentions this in the article.You should try to keep containers to a single function.I also recently polled IT Pro's and asked if they have deployed containers yet and the vast majority said no. Are you a virtualization administrator who is exploring the idea of containers? Do you currently hav
Every data center uses file, object or volume storage. Why not use some for free? Nutanix Unified Storage, the simple, flexible, and software-defined storage solution from Nutanix solves complex storage challenges for the modern datacenter. And now, Nutanix AOS customers get 1 TB of Nutanix Unified Storage capacity for free per AOS cluster. This gives Nutanix AOS customers the chance to experience this powerful unified storage solution in their own environment and for many, it’s enough to provide a department share for small workloads.What is Nutanix Unified Storage?Nutanix Unified Storage™ (NUS) is a software-defined data services platform that consolidates the management and protection of siloed block, file, and object storage into a single, unified platform. NUS harnesses the power of rich data services such as analytics, ransomware protection, lifecycle management, and data protection. These features enable organizations to seamlessly adapt to the ever-changing requirements of mode
Earlier in the year we shared our Nutanix Docker Volume Plugin on the Docker store. The Nutanix Docker Volume Plugin (DVP) enables Docker Containers to use storage persistently. Normally, if a container is moved from one container machine to another, storage does not move with it. The Acropolis Container Services (ACS) provide a storage volume plugin that enables Docker deployments to be integrated with Nutanix external storage systems and enable data volumes to persist beyond the lifetime of a single container machine host. You can find it here: Nutanix DVP (Docker Volume Plug-in) Hit REPLY and share your experience with others in the community!
This post was authored by Mike McGhee Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix The Ever-Expanding Universe of DataFrom 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 [1]. It’s no wonder analysts from IDC predict that by 2025 the world will produce 175 zettabytes of data, a tenfold increase from what was generated in 2016 [2]. The vast majority of this data is forecast to be unstructured. While much of this unstructured data will reside within Object Storage based services, a large amount, and likely the most actively accessed, will reside in network attached storage (NAS) leveraging the SMB and NFS protocols within datacenters. Traditional systems with their inherent limits on managing unstructured data at scale will be unable to handle the coming data explosion.
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
This post was authored by Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Mattias Sundling, Head of Datacenter and Cloud Services, A3 Being a Service Provider we constantly onboard customers that have been running on-prem virtual environments. The majority of them are running on VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V. In order to streamline the process of moving these workloads to our public cloud service with minimum impact on VM availability and time spent on our side we have been using Nutanix Move (previously called Xtract) since its first beta version. That release was over a year ago and supported VMware ESXi. So, we were quite excited to see there was a beta program for Move with Hyper-V support. We installed the new version that runs as a virtual appliance on your target AHV cluster and connected it to a customer’s Hyper-V hosts. Nutanix Move then pulls all inventory from all hosts and allows you to create a migration plan of selected VMs. By supplying administrator/root credentials all gue
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