Here we are, at the second Nutanix .Next conference! Last year it was in beautiful Miami, and this year it’s in hot Las Vegas. I’m not sure which is hotter, the weather or our announcements. Like last year, this event is sold out and more than double the size! I’ll be live blogging the sessions that I’m attending this year. As always, then are real-time notes and don’t have time to take slide photos and insert them in the blog posts. But I try and capture the essence of each session
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All of the attending Nutanix NTCs are lined up on stage and several of them do introductions.
Howard Ting takes stage.
In our first year we expected 500 to 700 attendees, we ended up over 960 people. This year the goal was 2000, and our registration total is 2,500.
Howard covers some of our great customers, such as airlines that run critical airline operations, a company that prints billions of coupons on Nutanix, or hospitals running critical operations on Nutanix. “You’ll love Nutanix”. “Love” is not a word you hear much about IT infrastructure. Nutanix is on a journey to build the enterprise cloud. In reality, only 7% of companies have built a true private cloud. Most think they have just by virtualizing.
Nutanix: Enterprise Cloud Platform
Dheeraj Pandey (CEO/Founder) takes the stage
The Growth Paradox: Most executives cite internal factors, not market forces, for what slows growth.
Founder’s mentality: Insurgent mission, owner mindset, obsession with the front line
Ambition, Attention-to-detail
One click upgrades: One click mover
Dheeraj talks about Community Edition and brings Richardarsenian on stage. They show off a drone which has Nutanix community edition running and controlling it.
DataGravity: Data driven security
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Sunil Potti takes the stage
Nutanix wants to be the AWS for the enterprise – Enterprise cloud platform on my terms
Shipping very shortly will be v4.7 and Asterix
Within one week of the 4.6 release, 500 clusters were upgraded. After 100 days, nearly 50% of all clusters were upgraded.
We support: Mainstream virtual apps, now all virtual apps,
Sunil shows a performance graph, where customers got a 4x improvement for free just via software upgrades.
For Broadwell servers all models now support all flash configurations. Or hybrid, your choice.
Michael Tempora from Vonage comes on stage. They are rapidly expanding into the business VoIP sector. Vonage cloud platform is powered by Nutanix.
Why stop a virtual workloads? Nutanix now supports bare metal via Acropolis Block Services featured in 4.7. Run 3 tier apps entirely on Nutanix. 200,000 random Oracle IOs in 2U.
Demos Citrix on AHV with MCS integration and Acropolis File Services (AFS). They also show the cluster running heavy SQL loads, plus bare metal Oracle workloads using ABS. The true power of a unified fabric.
15% of Nutanix clusters now running AHV
Jake Yang, Nasdaq Global Infrastructure director. Believes the hypervisor is now a commodity. Big adoption of AHV.
New:Â Acropolis Container Services. A native container platform, Docker support, persistent portable storage volumes.
One click upgrades: BIOS, BMC, Storage controller, disks, hypervisor, AOS, NCC, Foundation
Asterisk: 1-click self-service. Shows a demo of the new “Self-Service” tab in PRISM.
On demand Nutanix Community Edition: Can launch a public cloud hosted CE cluster and use for free for 2 hours.
Asterisk: You will no longer need to login to vCenter to manage ESXi. PRISM will support multi-hypervisor support.
T-Mobile’s Kevin Luu, Sr. Director Infrastructure and DevOps to talk Nutanix.
AOS 4.7: Microsoft CPS on Nutanix. Factory installed, deployed in hours, 1 click upgrades, full stack support from Nutanix.
Clutter-free organization: New filtering, labels, and great new search features
Machine intelligence: X Fit algorithms, Predictive workload scheduler, just in time forecasting. Recommends new hardware based on predicted capability.
Asterisk: Visualization of the network. An all new network view coming to PRISM.
