On Wednesday 6th May I was fortunate to join a group of likeminded folks from the channel for a day in London hosted by Nutanix featuring guest speakers from Omnissa and Parallels. Not quite Palm Springs for NerdioCon but it was still sunny…just. A hats off and thank you to Stu Bland and Ludmilla Dias […]
NC2 on Azure HA Flow Gateways (with ILB)
Traditionally we’ve faced a choice when deploying Nutanix NC2 on Azure when it came to the Flow Gateway. With static routing (User Defined Routes – UDR) within Azure, the route table only supported directing traffic to a single IP address – so a single Flow Gateway. Or with Dynamic Routing within Azure, we could use […]
AVD, Nerdio, & Nutanix AHV all together now
Just a huge wow, I was fortunate enough to attend NerdioCon in Cancun a few years ago where Microsoft then announced support for on-premises extension of Azure Virtual Desktop using Azure Stack HCI (aka Azure Local now). But now, there’s a public preview supporting Nutanix AHV bringing all of that goodness to the Nutanix ecosystem […]
Design, & deploy defensively
Frequently I’m asked why I always recommend building and testing a defensive design, one that has a chance of surviving first contact. The answer is simple, I’ve been burnt, and seen others burned by design decisions that made sense at the time but didn’t stand the test of time or the ‘what if?’ test. A […]
Omnissa on Nutanix AHV – a delightful relief
It’s no great surprise that my experience with Horizon (I’m of the age where I remember when it was View) in recent years has me rather excited to see the General Availability (GA) of support for Nutanix AHV. This has been a long time coming with Omnissa spinning out of VMware into its own entity […]
NKP – Moving cluster resources fails
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 […]