Category: Nutanix

  • NTC Tech Connect at Nutanix HQ (day 1)
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    NTC Tech Connect at Nutanix HQ (day 1)

    After a great night with some of the NTC’s, today it started. A short wrap-up of the day. Pre-NTC TS 1; LCM information Although the day is about to start at 8.30am, Cameron grabs the moment and is talking about LCM and the focus of his team. Where the focus was lately on reliability, the…

  • Heading to SJO for NTC Tech Connect

    If everyone ever asks me if it is worth travelling to San Jose for just two days, I would say definitely yes. Of course, the first day is not really pleasant with two connecting flights, but you forget about that when you meet the NTCs again in San Jose. But for now, the day. Awake…

  • Nutanix – Recovering from storage ‘exhaustion’
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    Nutanix – Recovering from storage ‘exhaustion’

    An earlier post showed the recovery of a critical alert about the Nutanix cluster storage. What are reasons to get into a situation that your Nutanix cluster is not able to recover from node failure. Of course, there can be several reasons for this behaviour. Lately, one of my customers had to deal with another…

  • 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)…