Month: July 2015

Nutanix Acropolis 101: Creating VMs

Now that Nutanix Acropolis is shipping with NOS 4.1.3, I wanted to cover a few basics in a series of blog posts. Most of you won't be familiar with Acropolis, which is based on KVM. If you've used KVM in the past, you will know how difficult it can be....

Nutanix NOS 4.1.4 Features

If you are Nutanix customer, you know that we release new version of our NOS platform on a very frequent basis. Release timing varies, but every 2-3 months you will see releases pop up. Some are major with a boatload of new features, and some are more bug fixes with...

Injecting KVM VirtIO Drivers into Windows

When dealing with hypervisors it is not uncommon to be required to supply specific drivers in order to recognize the virtual hardware, such as NICs and SCSI controllers. A while back I wrote blog articles on how to inject VMware drivers (PVSCSI and VMXNET3) into a Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows...

vSphere 6 Hardening Guide GA

During much of my career, I've been in the Government space and had to implement DISA STIGs for a variety of products including hypervisors. If you are a VMware customer and plan on using vSphere 6.0, you will be pleased to know that the vSphere 6.0 hardening guide is now GA....

VMTurbo in the Cloud is here

The SaaS market is becoming very popular, and software that was once only on-prem is now migrating to the cloud. I'm excited to announce that with VMTurbo 5.2, it is now offered as SaaS deployment through AWS. This means you can now control your on-prem environment with VMTurbo in the cloud....