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Nutanix recently introduced a new, simplified and altogether easier to work with support model for the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) product portfolio. Previously, customers had a choice between: Our recommended model for production installations was always to use LTS where possible, and to only consider STS if there was functionality you needed that wasn’t yet […]

Following our cluster installation on https://itskimpossible.blog/nutanix-ce-2-1-base-for-joy/ we now need to look at upgrading our software to the latest versions. Nutanix has a framework known as Lifecycle Manager (LCM) which allows for a consolidated and reduced risk approach to performing upgrades to the Nutanix platform and associated vendor firmware. Out of the box, LCM works in […]

A VMware VCF (OG VCF, pre Broadcom) customer is beginning their Nutanix journey with some retired Fujitsu RX2540 M4 VSAN nodes running Community Edition for their admins to get some hands one experience. I decided to chronicle this experience – first stop https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_1:top-welcome-ce-c.html to confirm the licensing / EULA that lets us run in test/learn […]

Srinath GS welcomed us into the Nutanix Central Deep Dive session. What are customers asking for when it comes to managing larger Nutanix / Multi-Prism Central deployments? Srinath showed a live demo of logging into a single cloud facing URL, and being able to manage several Prism Central’s and many more underlying clusters directly. Slick. […]

Ahmad Elalay opens the next session at Nutanix Tech Connect Summit 2024 talking about ‘DBaaS in Hybrid Multicloud: Freedom to Run Databases Across On-Premises and Cloud‘. Ahmad speaks of a common theme today, in organisations wanting to enable developers to develop and move the responsibility of the underlying platform to Platform Engineering. How? Platform Engineers […]

Oscar Wahlberg, Senior Director Product Management welcomes us into the ‘What’s new with AOS and NDK‘ session. AOS 6.10 LTS is huge, 2 years+ of innovation since LTS 6.5. Performance improvements Ramya Prabhakar talks about NDK. Customers who are moving to cloud native/container workloads have a need to have the expected‘ AOS-esque functionality that we’ve […]

Deepak Goel welcomes us into the ‘Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)‘ session. Deepak is ex D2iQ, with years of experience in this space with some very large and complex customers. Deepak opened with a discussion around the Kubernetes Trends for 2024, some very interesting figures – https://thenewstack.io/the-2023-state-of-kubernetes-in-production/ We hear the term ‘Platform Engineering‘ again as levelling […]

Session 1 – Nutanix Cloud Manager Ramachandran Varadharajan (RV) welcomes us into the ‘Nutanix Cloud Manager‘ session with colleagues Vijaay (Product Engineering) in the room, and Pranav (Product Engineering). NCM sits within the larger Nutanix Cloud Platform – AIOps, Self Service, Cost, SecOps What are the Key Business Outcomes for the Hybrid Cloud Model? Reduce […]