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 […]
Prism Central (hosted externally to Nutanix)
As Prism Central has continued to mature, and increase in complexity (microservices, external storage groups, etc) there has been an increased focus on folks hosting it within a Prism Element cluster. Makes sense right? That’s how we often did it with vCenter, we’d plonk it onto the vSphere/ESXi cluster it was managing. But there may […]
After crashcart foundation_url error?
A weird one we’ve seen a couple of times recently on OEM equipment being shipped from the factory built on AOS 6.8.1. When you run Crashcart to configure IPs the task fails to complete, citing an inability to contact a Foundation url. We’re not using Foundation at this point. We believed this was where the […]
Crashcart ‘node may be in a cluster’ error
From time to time we have to run the Nutanix crashcart /usr/local/bin/network-crashcart to configure the AHV+CVM network IPs. This command has some guard rails in place to stop it working when the host is already in a cluster (very sensible!) but sometimes those guard rails are a little too tight and it doesn’t work even […]
Flow Next Generation Security (FNS NG) 5.1 Upgrade
Following on from a post outlining easier release vehicles we recently completed an AOS 7.0 upgrade for a customer, splitting the upgrades over maintenance windows – the last piece of the puzzle being the upgrade of Flow Network Security Next Generation 5.0 to 5.1. Flow Network Security ‘Next Generation’ (FNS NG) is deployed in a […]
IGMP snooping on Nutanix AHV
Had an escalation this week where a customer was moving from ESXi on AHV on self-built new clusters. All built and tested (shifting from ESXi on 10GbE, to AHV on 25GbE and moving from leaf switches to TOR switches) – all OK in NCC and smoke tested fine. But… problems occurred quickly when loaded up […]