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So Your Boss Thinks You’re Stupid – Converged Infrastructure
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Converged infrastructure packages multiple information technology (IT) components into a single, optimized computing solution. Components of a converged...
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Nutanix: Drop It Like It’s Hot
Nutanix is all in one solution building block for virtualization. It allows you to virtualize your workloads without requiring a SAN. This approach allows for many benefits, such as buy what you need,...
View ArticleGiving the Google Goodness to the Enterprise
Giving the Google Goodness to the Enterprise in a ultra dense solution. 4 nodes in 2U’s is meh, it’s a game changer when that includes your enterprise storage. W. Curtis Preston interviews Sudheesh...
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Stargate: A Five Star Chef
I have previously have discussed Medusa and Curator as two of the components that allow the Nutanix Complete Cluster to scale before being hired at Nutanix. After a week and half of technical training...
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Nutanix Provides Native Replication & Aids 3rd Party Replication\DR
Today Nutanix publicly launched our new operating system version 3.0 and new hardware. While this a big release for us I want to focus on disaster recovery and more importantly how to get there without...
View ArticleNutanix in 2 Mintues
Other Game Changing Features: Giant Datastore for Virtual Machines – 2, 2,2000, 2,000,000 doesn’t matter Replication has no limit to the number of remote sites Data center in a Box\Time to Value –...
View ArticleWhy Veeam and Nutanix? Fast, Low Impact, Results
* Nutanix is able to sense traffic patterns and can prevent flooding the high performance tier with replication * Both offer top class Time to Value. With Nutanix’s ability to go from shrink wrapped to...
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Under the Covers of a Distributed Virtual Computing Platform – Part 1: Built...
Lots of talk in the industry about how had software defined storage first and who was using what components. I don’t want to go down that rat hole since it’s all marketing and it won’t help you at the...
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Under the Covers of a Distributed Virtual Computing Platform – Part 2: ZZ Top
In case you missed Part 1 – Part 1: Built For Scale and Agility No it’s not Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, or drummer Frank Beard. It’s Zeus and Zookeeper providing the strong blues that allow the Nutanix...
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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) with Nutanix on June 10, 1PM MST
Please join me and your peers to talk about Business Continuity Planning on June 10, 1PM MST 1) Common sense approach to BCP 2) Nutanix DR – Replication and SRM like features 3) 3rd Party Replication –...
View ArticleUnchain My VM, And Set Me Free!(Snapshots)
Cormac Hogan wrote a good article, VAAI-NAS – Some snapshot chains are deeper than others. The blog post highlights some of the differences between vendors and the impact of their decisions. Nutanix...
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Nutanix: When Blunt Force Trauma Isn’t Enough on the vSwitch
My philosophy with most things is to keep it simple. The more bells and whistles turned and tooted usually lead to problems down the road. Each Nutanix node has over 20 Gb/s of available traffic which...
View ArticleNOS 3.5.1: PAM Cards For The Cost of Stick of RAM
General Availability of the NOS 3.5.1 went live today. Lots of great features but my favorite is having the power of software and a stick of RAM to give a PAM card in your back pocket to be used at...
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Singe File Restore – Fairy Tale Ending Going Down History Lane
If I go back to my earliest sysadmin days where I had to restore a file from a network share, I was happy just to get the file back. Where I worked we only had tape and it was crapshoot at the best of...
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Nutanix Short: Active Directory Authentication
You have the ability to use local accounts built into the Nutanix UI or use or use Active Directory.You can also you use Common Access Card (CAC) but that is out of the scope of this post. You can use...
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Nutanix Short: Dedupe – What’s My Savings Over RAM & Flash
Today Nutanix provides inline dedupe over RAM and Flash to get most out of your performance tier. To see how much space your saving go to the Analysis section in the Prism UI. Go to the Analysis...
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Nutanix Cache Money: When to Spend, When to Save
Spend wiselyEvery Nutanix virtual storage controller has local cache to server the workloads running directly on the nodes. A question that comes up is if the local cache should be increased. No ever...
View ArticleWhen To Use: Nutanix Shadow Clones vs VCAI
First kick at the can with google hangouts. Apparently I din’t setup the webinar on air correctly. But the content made it out of alive! Post any questions below.
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Scale-Out Storage – In the Hypervisor Kernel or in a VM?
A new tech note from Nutanix discussing architectural considerations with implementing a converged, scale-‐out storage fabric that run across a cluster of nodes. This paper focuses on high...
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Data Locality: Congestion Not Latency
I love Nutanix data locality for helping with the noisy neighbour syndrome and because it helps in spreading the data evenly across the cluster. Spreading the data across the cluster has impact on...
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