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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Oscar Wahlberg, Senior Director Product Management welcomes us into the ‘What’s new with AOS and NDK‘ session. AOS 6.10 LTS is huge, 2 years+ of innovation since LTS 6.5. Performance improvements Ramya Prabhakar talks about NDK. Customers who are moving to cloud native/container workloads have a need to have the expected‘ AOS-esque functionality that we’ve […]

Deepak Goel welcomes us into the ‘Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)‘ session. Deepak is ex D2iQ, with years of experience in this space with some very large and complex customers. Deepak opened with a discussion around the Kubernetes Trends for 2024, some very interesting figures – https://thenewstack.io/the-2023-state-of-kubernetes-in-production/ We hear the term ‘Platform Engineering‘ again as levelling […]

Session 1 – Nutanix Cloud Manager Ramachandran Varadharajan (RV) welcomes us into the ‘Nutanix Cloud Manager‘ session with colleagues Vijaay (Product Engineering) in the room, and Pranav (Product Engineering). NCM sits within the larger Nutanix Cloud Platform – AIOps, Self Service, Cost, SecOps What are the Key Business Outcomes for the Hybrid Cloud Model? Reduce […]

First up, an interactive session with Rajiv Ramaswami talking about all things Nutanix but before that Cameron Stockwell (Director, Product Management for LCM and Foundation) happens to be here from Australia and Sarabjit Principal Product Manager at HQ from India. Recapping the upcoming developments announced at Barcelona .NEXT 2024 – Multi-Cluster LCM – empowering Prism […]

It’s day 1, we’ve arrived on site at Nutanix HQ, San Jose – via the local Starbucks for ‘It’s fall, have some pumpkin spice‘ rocket fuel. Reviewing the packed agenda, we’re in for a busy few days… further posts will cover the sessions. Topic Presenter Q&A with Rajiv Ramaswami Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO Nutanix Cloud Manager […]

(spotted on Reddit, thanks djbills!) Nutanix have released AOS 6.10 (LTS), a long awaited release as the successor to the 6.5 LTS versions. There are so many wonderful things included in this release from the short-term supported (STS) releases between 6.5 and 6.10. A few highlights for me are: (and the move to Rocky Linux […]