Something I do like about Broadcom is the ease of accessing their training resources, and free of charge if you’re able to work with the self-paced online materials, and then just pay for the exam though the nearest test centre is a bit further away than my kitchen where I normally take my proctored exams. […]
VDI Sync (improved in Files 5.1)
If you’ve ever designed a multi-site VDI implementation you’ve likely faced the conundrum of how to handle user profiles for your users, or rather, how to avoid their wrath when something is out of sync when you make the fact they’re connecting to multiple resource locations transparent to them. For years we’ve worked through the […]
Nutanix on Cisco
As vendor agnostic picture painters, we at Cutter have deployed many vendor cloud infrastructure platforms on top of various server hardware vendors integrating with a plethora of network vendors. Whether it was blue, green, red or purple hardware it didn’t really make any difference (nor should it) to the customer consuming the infrastructure as long […]
Nutanix simplifies release support models
Nutanix recently introduced a new, simplified and altogether easier to work with support model for the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) product portfolio. Previously, customers had a choice between: Our recommended model for production installations was always to use LTS where possible, and to only consider STS if there was functionality you needed that wasn’t yet […]
Reflecting on 2024
It’s always a strange feeling in the lead up to Christmas each year as whilst we at Cutter don’t have a period of shutdown – a lot of our partners and customers do. This presents an opportunity for reflection when the world isn’t moving at 100mph, and a bit of breathing room to do those […]
Nutanix Technology Champion 2025!
I am very proud to be renewed as a Nutanix Technology Champion for 2025. https://next.nutanix.com/community-blog-154/introducing-the-nutanix-technology-champions-for-2025-a-celebration-of-excellence-and-innovation-43855 This years theme is ‘A Celebration of Excellence and Innovation’ – big shoes for us all to fill in sharing and levelling up together in the community. I am beyond excited to see what chaos we can cause together for […]
Nutanix CE 2.1 – updating AOS/AHV using LCM
Following our cluster installation on https://itskimpossible.blog/nutanix-ce-2-1-base-for-joy/ we now need to look at upgrading our software to the latest versions. Nutanix has a framework known as Lifecycle Manager (LCM) which allows for a consolidated and reduced risk approach to performing upgrades to the Nutanix platform and associated vendor firmware. Out of the box, LCM works in […]
Nutanix CE 2.1 base for joy
A VMware VCF (OG VCF, pre Broadcom) customer is beginning their Nutanix journey with some retired Fujitsu RX2540 M4 VSAN nodes running Community Edition for their admins to get some hands one experience. I decided to chronicle this experience – first stop https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_1:top-welcome-ce-c.html to confirm the licensing / EULA that lets us run in test/learn […]
Nutanix Technology Champion – Tech Connect Summit 2024 (Day 1 pt6)�
Srinath GS welcomed us into the Nutanix Central Deep Dive session. What are customers asking for when it comes to managing larger Nutanix / Multi-Prism Central deployments? Srinath showed a live demo of logging into a single cloud facing URL, and being able to manage several Prism Central’s and many more underlying clusters directly. Slick. […]
Nutanix Technology Champion – Tech Connect Summit 2024 (Day 1 pt5)
Ahmad Elalay opens the next session at Nutanix Tech Connect Summit 2024 talking about ‘DBaaS in Hybrid Multicloud: Freedom to Run Databases Across On-Premises and Cloud‘. Ahmad speaks of a common theme today, in organisations wanting to enable developers to develop and move the responsibility of the underlying platform to Platform Engineering. How? Platform Engineers […]