Session EUC8404 Innovations in Horizon 7: Makes Desktop and App management easy Just-in-time desktops - VM fork technology. Drive down storage costs by 30%. Deliver apps instantly. Streamline OpEX by 50%. No more lengthy recompose operations. Faster provisioning, better performance, simplified desktop administration. Significantly lower load on vCenter (1/14th). No...
Session: NET8193R. Bruce Davie, CTO Networking Software developers need to be treated as a first class customer. The developer is king. Network virtualization is the bridge to the future. Network architecture today: Data plane, control plane, management plane, cloud consumption. Distributed data plane, centralized control. Management Plane Availability Developers need...
Session STO7645 *LUNS Suck Pain Points: Siloed management, rigid infrastructure, complex process, no visibility into storage, capabilities applied at the LUN level, vendor specific configuration required, LUN sprawl. VVOls offer: storage policy-based management, capabilities applied at the disk level. Consumed on demand. Storage policy-based model simplifies operations significantly What are...
Pat Gelsinger comes on stage (VMware CEO). In 2006 there were 29 million workloads running on traditional IT. 2% cloud (SalesForce). 160 million workloads in 2016 and 15% are public, 12% are private cloud. 255 million workloads by 2021. By 2030 52% of workloads will be public cloud. New build datacenters...
What's New in AOS 4.7? Some of these enhancements were announced at .Next last week. Here's a full list of what's new in AOS 4.7. It is available for immediate download on the Nutanix support portal. Acropolis Block Services Acropolis Block Services (ABS) provides highly available and high performance block...
Presenters: Mike McGhee (NTX), Tabrez Memon (NTX), Tim Issaacs (NTX) Why bare metal? Oracle Licensing, performance perception, Legacy apps (Sun, IBM, HPUX), investment protection High Performance Databases - a few times you might not virtualize Licensing cost Virtualized limits for max DB (SAP HANA, etc.) 3-tier applications  Run your 3-tier...
Presenters: Partha R (NTX), Mike McGhee (NTX), Ryan Sheldon (AMGEN) Tier-1 apps are different for different customers. Could be ERP, EPOS, email, etc. Need to be prepared for the worst: IT Productivity, recovery, end-user productivity, business disruption, lost revenue, etc. Data protection requirements: RPO, RTO Understand consistency: Application consistency (e.g....
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...
Update 5/31/2016:Â Got all my parts and built the PC. Apparently there's an industry wide problem with the Z170 HDMI 2.0 output that results in blank screens on many new 4K monitors (works at 1080P). I've seen it reported on the Intel forums for Asus and Gigabyte motherboards. I opened a...
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So for as long as I've been using VMware, the Windows C# client has been a staple of my workflow. Even when VMware started transitioning to the icky Flash based interface, I know many MANY people still used the C# client. Between dodgy performance, reliance on Flash (and all it's...
In my new role at Nutanix I've had the pleasure of working with end customers, and configuring their vSphere 6.0 environment. During this process, SSL certificates have come up. Surprisingly, thus far my clients have chosen the VMCA method of deploying certificates. This is great, as it automates certificate deployments...