First up, an interactive session with Rajiv Ramaswami talking about all things Nutanix but before that Cameron Stockwell (Director, Product Management for LCM and Foundation) happens to be here from Australia and Sarabjit Principal Product Manager at HQ from India. Recapping the upcoming developments announced at Barcelona .NEXT 2024 – Multi-Cluster LCM – empowering Prism […]
Nutanix Technology Champion – Tech Connect Summit 2024
It’s day 1, we’ve arrived on site at Nutanix HQ, San Jose – via the local Starbucks for ‘It’s fall, have some pumpkin spice‘ rocket fuel. Reviewing the packed agenda, we’re in for a busy few days… further posts will cover the sessions. Topic Presenter Q&A with Rajiv Ramaswami Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO Nutanix Cloud Manager […]
Nutanix AOS 6.10 (LTS) Released
(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 […]
Restricting USB access with Intune
A customer asked for us to implement a total USB drive block on a newly deployed Intune environment, as opposed to the usual blocking of ‘write access’ or ‘ensure everything is bitlockered’. Using ASR within Intune the experience was a bit flakey, in allowing read access regardless of configuration. Lots of blog posts suggesting it […]
UK Weather & Disaster Avoidance
The UK (infrastructure) has a tendency to fall apart when it rains, is too windy, too cold, or too warm. We as a people seem to cope best with a moderately cool climate and without any surprises. In the last couple of weeks we’ve been unfortunate to receive a lot of inclement weather; cold, wind, […]
Microsoft Global Secure Access
I stumbled upon this little treat of a solution when looking for options to replace an aging VPN solution for a client with laptop users across the country all connecting back to shared resources within a datacentre. The customer use case is pretty simple: We’d already worked on making internal websites externally accessible through the […]
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 […]