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  • NKP – Configuring Infrastructure
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    NKP – Configuring Infrastructure

    Information about Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 3 of many) The Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (or NKP) allows you to configure one or more infrastructure providers. Of course you are able to configure Nutanix, but you are also able to configure AWS, GCP and AWS.Even EKS and AKS are configurable by you. In this post we will…

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  • Installation of NKP
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    Installation of NKP

    Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, how to install (Part 2 of many) How to install Nutanix KubernetesPlatform? Resource Requirements Sizing of your cluster depends on the workload. However minimum requirements are listed. These minimum requirements will be used when deployment will take place with the default settings. Resources Control Plane Nodes Worker Nodes minimum node requirement 3…

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  • NKP – introduction
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    NKP – introduction

    An introduction to the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Part 1 of many) Information of this post is subtracted from the Nutanix University course. Post is created while studying the course. Introduction Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) is a complete platform based on Kubernetes that serves modern applications. It provides a consolidated runtime, orchestration, and management environment to…

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  • 2025 – New episode
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    2025 – New episode

    What are my New Year’s intentions? Looking back to 2023 and 2024, these were difficult years for me and my family on a personal level. As you get older, more and more people around you pass away. This puts a lot of things into perspective. From a business perspective, this has led to some goals…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • NTC Tech Connect: Here we come!

    After a short night the travel to SJO can finally start. The night was short as we had to see Max Verstappen win the sprint race in Austin. First stage of today can start. The plane to Seattle from Schiphol is ready. San Jose and fellow NTCs… See you later today.

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  • Looking forward to NTC Tech Connect

    Once in a lifetime, you have the opportunity to attend an event that is worth crossing the Atlantic two times in just 3 days. In the upcoming week the Nutanix Technology Champions (or just NTCs ) are invited to Nutanix HQ in San Jose for a great event. In this two days, this small group…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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