If you’ve deployed NKP in a lab environment you may have come across this common error message during the deployment. Initially I wondered if it was a timing issue with my lab not being very fast – but I could consistently reproduce it even with other resources switched off. bash$ KUBECONFIG=kim-nkp-ntnx01-bootstrap.conf kubectl delete cluster kim-nkp-ntnx01 […]
VyOS – VXLAN Layer 2 Subnet Extension & VRRP
A tip of the hat to the marvellously clever Jonas Werner over at https://jonamiki.com/posts/layer-2-extension-with-vyos/ who gave me some tips for the start of this journey. We recently had a customer who needed to stretch several Layer 2 Subnets up to Microsoft Azure for a Nutanix NC2 deployment – but coming from a non Nutanix on-premises […]
Nutanix .NEXT 2025 – The Champions Power Lunch
A perk of being a Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) is having an opportunity to sit down and have lunch and Q&A with the leadership of the organisation at .NEXT. 2025 was no different, we had lunch with Rajiv Ramaswami (Chief Executive Officer) and were joined by Thomas Cornely (SVP Product Management) and Jason Longpre (Vice President, […]
Nutanix .NEXT 2025 – Jeroen’s session on Nutanix Community Edition
The final morning of Nutanix .NEXT 2025 kicked off with one of my friends Jeroen hosting a technical session on Nutanix Community Edition, featuring a run through on approaching the install, completing the install, and most importantly some tips on how to handle any gotchas or issues that may arise. Lots of tips and tricks […]
Nutanix .NEXT 2025 – Day 2 Keynote
Day 2 of Nutanix .NEXT opened with the keynote from Lee Caswell (SVP Products and Solution Marketing) and Thomas Cornely (SVP Product Management) reflecting on the announcements from the first day and dug deeper into four key areas including demos. Modern Hybrid Cloud Joined by Laura Jordana (Director, Technical Marketing) to lead through some demos […]
Nutanix .Next 2025 – Breakout Session – Nutanix on #OVHcloud
The last breakout session of Day at 1 at Nutanix .Next 2025 was Jeffrey ‘Gregor’ and Maroane Boutayeb (a fellow NTC!) from OVHcloud showing us the power of running the Nutanix we know from on-prem in their ‘Optimize IT. Remove Complexity. Control Costs.’ session. OVHcloud is one of Europe’s best kept secrets, a hyperscaler competitor […]
Nutanix .Next 2025 – Breakout Session – #10ZiG Win10 to Win11 Migrations
Separate to the main sessions at .Next 2025 there are breakout sessions held less formally in the Solutions Expo hall where vendors can chat with an audience about their solutions. Kevin Greenway – CTO at 10ZiG held a session discussing how 10ZiG and Nutanix can help with the challenges associated with Windows 10 EOL and […]
Nutanix .Next 2025 – Day 1 Keynote
Day 1 of Nutanix .Next 2025 – Washington DC is upon us! A short walk across the road from the hotel is the Walter E. Washington Convention Center where the conference is taking place this year. . The opening Keynote delivered by Mandy Dhaliwal (Chief Marketing Officer, Nutanix), and Rajiv Ramaswami (Chief Executive Officer, Nutanix) […]
Nutanix Cloud Platform with ‘EXTERNAL STORAGE’ !!
A lot of people over the years, myself included have often pondered a question – “What if I could consume external storage in Nutanix?” I liken this to my old days where three-tier was the norm, and often hypervisors would be replaced at a different time to that of the storage and we had this […]
Foundation Central 1.7.1 (Cisco IMM + AHV 10.0.1!)
I recently wrote about ‘Nutanix on Cisco‘ exploring the navigating of Cisco Intersight Standard Mode (ISM), vs Cisco Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) and where depending upon which Cisco server nodes you had, and which switches you had led you to a decision. Foundation Central 1.7.1 and some magnificent joint engineering with Cisco has helped close […]