(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 […]
Testing FreeBSD 14.1 on Nutanix AHV
A fellow Nutanix Technology Champion Jonathan had asked if anyone had tested FreeBSD 14 on AHV yet, FreeBSD 13 is shown on the compatibility matrix fine. (I am using AOS 6.8 here) I’ve not used FreeBSD in many, many years other than via an appliance such as NetScaler so I thought it’d be a useful […]
Nutanix Technology Champion Tech Summit 2024
I am beyond excited to confirm I will be heading across the pond to Nutanix HQ in San Jose, USA late October 24 to spend a few days with some of the brightest minds in the business (my fellow NTCs) and the Nutant leaders themselves who help make each day interesting. I’ve already sync’d with […]
Nutanix Disaster Recovery ‘random’ storage container placement
I encountered a situation recently I hadn’t come across before where protection policies between two availability zones weren’t placing recovery points in a logical (to me) place on the target site. Initially this was surprising because I could not see the ‘default’ container on the target site growing in usage from the replicated recovery points […]
What’s next? A plague of locusts?
The world we live in it is fair to say, develops and changes at a moments notice, at breakneck speed, in directions nobody predicted until 5 minutes after it happened. Sure, of course some things are predictable, some things do meander along a well-defined path, without being ‘the kind that blindside you at 4 PM […]
Nvidia DLS – Quick deploy with HA on Nutanix AHV
A colleague asked me to peer review a Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD) on Nutanix design that would be across datacentres and leverage Nvidia GPUs. We got onto the decision of the ‘old’ way of providing high-availability for the Nvidia licensing service and looking at which API calls we could use to determine health. […]
Nutanix Move 5.x – Files Sync & Migration
Nutanix Move 5.0 introduced a fantastic new feature that allows us to move away from handwriting robocopy/richcopy scripts to migrate data into Nutanix Files. Whilst it was possible to migrate natively with Nutanix Files using a Files Migration Plan it came with some limitations notably not supporting deduplication which could cause problems. I was thrilled […]
Nutanix X-Ray 4.3.3 release
(shamelessly ripped from Angelo / release notes and stashed here for a quick tweet link!) X-Ray 4.3.3 Release Announcement X-Ray 4.3.3 is now GA! This impact-packed release has 3 new tests, cluster power metrics, test improvements, G9 test data, and more. Highlights: New! Drive Failure and Data Rebuilt test: What better way to demonstrate AOS’s […]
Brain dump on Citrix templates within Nutanix AHV
A colleague from a non Nutanix Citrix background asked me for a quick brain dump of things to pay attention to when it comes to bringing Nutanix AHV to the party. I thought it useful to share (in a very raw format) the brain dump… VMware Tools traditionally provided both VMware proprietary drivers (VMXNET3, Paravirtual […]
Snapshots and recovery points
If you are familiar with VMware vSphere you’ll appreciate the ease of creating a snapshot of a virtual machine and being able to ‘roll back’ to that point in time if something bad happens soon after. Microsoft Hyper-V has a similar concept with checkpoints. Nutanix with AHV on a cluster level (Prism Element) supports the […]