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  • Nutanix User Group Netherlands (Dutch)

    Covid-19 houdt ons nog steeds stevig in de greep. Dit weerhoudt ons er echter niet van om ook in 2022 een sessie te organiseren met de Dutch Nutanix User Group. De huidige maatregelen zorgen ervoor dat dit nog steeds een virtuele meeting wordt. We hopen dat we een volgende meeting gewoon weer in persona kunnen…

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    Save LCM with ipmitool

    Sometimes, it can be very useful to manage your IPMI settings from the command line… Managing a Nutanix environment, daily administration jobs will not cost you a lot of time. However, even the automation you are counting on, is not always a guarantee of success. Lately I performed an update for the BIOS and BMC,…

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    Expansion of a Nutanix cluster; different license_class

    Everybody knows that the expansion of a Nutanix cluster does not require many technical skills. It is mainly about a few things: Rack and stack for the node(s) Configure the network Power on the new node(s) From there the cluster expansion is fully orchestrated in Prism Element. The nodes to be added are discovered by…

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    Using LACP with Nutanix AHV

    As Nutanix describes in their Nutanix Networking guide, Nutanix is recommending “Active-backup” as bond mode for ease of use. For available bandwidth and increased availability, I always recommend the use of the bond mode “balance-tcp” in combination with LACP. For a the use of LACP, you need to configure that as well on the network…

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    Storage migration with AHV

    One of the features my customers are missing in Nutanix and AHV is the possibility to migrate running virtual machines to another container. Well, the wait is over. Recently, Nutanix released AOS 5.19 and among the many features in this Short Term Support release version, there is the live migration of the storage of a…

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  • [Dutch] Inschrijvingen voor de tweede Nederlandse Nutanix User Group meeting zijn geopend

    Op 28 november zal in Hoofddorp in de tweede Nederlandse Nutanix User Group meeting gehouden worden. In het mooie nieuwe kantoor van Nutanix hebben we een mooi programma samen kunnen stellen. Schrijf je hier in: https://events.nutanix.com/event/?id=1571327994-5da88ffab8960-5db058b9652ac 14:00 –14:30 Registration & Welcome 14:30 –15:00 Keynote: Ruben Spruijt 15:00 –15:45 Community Speaker: Vishwapreet Mahabir (PQR) – Xi Leap & Xi Frame…

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    Nutanix gives freedom of choice in hardware

    Freedom is choice. And the Nutanix platform gives plenty of choices. We already knew about the different hypervisors you could choose from, and also the different hardware vendors. Nutanix offers an addition choice. The AMD Epyc processor of the new generation is added to the portfolio. This new generation CPU is entering the datacenter market.…

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    Nutanix announced Mine during .NEXT in Anaheim

    At their annual .NEXT conference, Nutanix announced Mine just about an hour ago. The conference this year takes place in Anaheim. Unfortunately I am not able to attend this year, but hopefully all big topics will be brought to you on this site. Nutanix, market leader in Hyperconverged Infrastructure, and known by their journey to…

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    Nutanix .NEXT 2017 just started

    Right at this moment, .NEXT conference is starting in Washington DC. .NEXT is the yearly global conference of Nutanix, the enterprise cloud company. Really thousands of enthusiastic Nutanix partners,  employees and of course customers are attending, all are waiting for some exciting new announcements of the company. This blog is written during the opening keynote,…

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    Nutanix on the way to make the datacenter invisible!

    During the .NEXT event in Las Vegas last June, Nutanix gave a great insight into the roadmap of their product for the upcoming year. At this moment, the .NEXT Europe is hosted in Vienna. During the keynote, presented on Wednesday November 9th, new announcements have been made. Also other improvements, mentioned in Break-out sessions are…

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