(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 […]
Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2022
Disclaimer: I have always been a staunch supporter of technology, sometimes the underdog (looking at you Sun Microsystems with Sun Ray, & SGD) and sometimes the champion (VMware, Nutanix) but always for the right reasons – the best tool for the job, and the customer. This has often left me (and my wider team) in […]