Category: Nutanix

  • Nutanix & Resiliency: saving the day
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    Nutanix & Resiliency: saving the day

    Sometimes, I am really happy with the resiliency builtin the Nutanix NCI solution. Storage usage only increasaes, and sometimes customers are really reaching the resilient capacity. This should be no problem, but when performing maintenance using the LCM, it could happen that a host is not returning in the cluster due to a failed firmware…

  • Nutanix User Group Netherlands (Dutch)
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    Nutanix User Group Netherlands (Dutch)

    De wereld van IT, cloud en hyperconverged is enorm – ga er niet alleen op uit! Stel je team samen, meng je onder vakgenoten en leer hoe je door het IT-landschap navigeert tijdens de Nutanix User Group (NUG). Het Nederlandse NUG-team organiseert een nieuwe bijeenkomst op donderdag 12 september om 14:30 uur! Agenda: 

  • Nutanix LCM Dark site
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    Nutanix LCM Dark site

    The Lifecycle Manager of Nutanix is a great tool. It lets you update the Nutanix infrastructure for Nutanix software, hypervisor as well as the firmware of the hardware used in the Nutanix cluster. Direct portal connection Most efficient way for the LCM is to connect to the Nutanix portal, so the LCM is able to…

  • AHV; add an additional NIC
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    AHV; add an additional NIC

    Normally, when ordering a new Nutanix cluster, or additional nodes, the systems are configured and sized for your environment. Now and then, modifications are made after the systems are ordered. Lately, a customer decided to order additional NICs to eliminate the network interface card as a single point of failure. This short article shows the…

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    Nutanix Kubernetes Platform available

    another announcement @.NEXT 2024 A little outside my comfort zone, but it sounds like a great addition to the multicloud portfolio, the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). This product is now GA. NKP helps administrators to manage all their Kubernetes clusters, whether they are running on a Nutanix cluster, or in the public cloud. NKP let…

  • Run everywhere (updated)
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    Run everywhere (updated)

    Nutanix .NEXT 2024 Last update: May 21st, 15.55 If you like true hybrid multicloud infrastructure, you have to be in Barcelona this week. Today, the annual event of Nutanix begins. Barcelona is a lovely city and even the weather became better and better. Outside no clouds to see, so we can focus on cloud on…

  • Heading over to Nutanix GTS

    What could be just another sunday, might be a special one. It will be a long day with a flight to Las Vegas with a 4-hour stop in Boston. Hopefully it is worth the travel, but honestly I don’t have a doubt about that. Why GTS? I think it is an amazing event with (almost)…

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    Nutanix AHV, don’t mess with the virtual switch!

    In the first releases of AHV, the virtual switch was present on the AHV host, but not integrated within the Prism UI. By then, it was quite obscure what the settings on the host were. Nowadays it is really important to maintain identical settings on your host for the bridge br0 en de bond br0-up.…

  • Nutanix Prism: Enter Maintenance mode

    Customers always asked me, why it is not possible to enter maintenance mode for a host using the GUI, instead of the CLI. Well, now we can… Starting with AOS6.5 (LTS) an administrator is able to enter maintenance mode of a host using the Prism web interface. (Not sure, this was introduced in a STS…

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    Nutanix User Group Nederland komt bijeen (Dutch)

    Eindelijk mag het weer. We kunnen en mogen weer een ‘normale’ user group meeting organiseren. En dan gaan we dat ook doen. Donderdag 17 november is de datum We komen bijeen in het hoofdkantoor van Nutanix in Hoofddorp. Eind van de middag wordt gestart en na de avondspits sluiten we af. Meer informatie is te…