Introduction In this second installment of the vSphere 6.0 installation series we cover the new service called the Platform Services Controller. This new service has consumed the SSO service, and added a number of new features. vCenter functionality is now divided into two primary roles, the management node and the...
Another great session at PEX 2015 by Rawlinson Rivera. Traditional storage architectures can't keep up: Specialized and costly HW - Not commodity, low utilization, overprovisioning Device-centric silos - Static classes of service, rigid provisioning, lack of granular control Complex processes - Lack of automation, time consuming processes, slow reaction to...
Straight from PEX 2015 in San Francisco, here's a recap of the February 2 announcement for what's new in vSphere 6.0 Platform Enhancements: 128 vCPUs per VM 4TB of RAM per VM 64 hosts per cluster 12TB of system RAM 480 vCPUs per host Hot-add RAM is now vNUMA aware...
At VMworld 2014 VMware revealed bits and pieces of what's new in vSphere 6.0. A lot of information was still under NDA and not disclosed, so attendees didn't get the full picture of the new virtualization platform. But now that it's announced, all can now be revealed. Unlike the last...
For the past several VMware VCDX defenses Nutanix has been excited to sponsor a mock defense hotel room for the candidates to practice their art. I know when I was going through the defense program having the Nutanix sponsored room in San Francisco at PEX 2014 was a truly invaluable experience...
In this article I'll be covering how to size and deploy Microsoft Lync Server 2013 on Nutanix. This article is a subset of a newly released whitepaper which covers SMB (1,000 users), medium (10,000 users), and large (26,664 users)Â size Lync deployment scenarios. You can download the full whitepaper for free...
I am very pleased to announce the latest release of the Nutanix Operating System, NOS 4.1.1, is generally available today. Download your copy today! This release offers rich enterprise capabilities to meet the needs of the most demanding applications and critical infrastructure requirements in the datacenter. Here’s a summary of...
This year I'm pleased to announce that Nutanix is a Gold Sponsor of VMware PEX 2015, in San Francisco. Put on your seat belts, as VMware is going to make a big announcement on Feb 2nd about a new version of their hypervisor portfolio. Lots of great new features, and...
Right on the heels of VMware Workstation 11 being released, VMware has released vSphere 5.1 U3. No major new features, but according to the release notes there is support for new guest operating systems (without being specific) and it also resolves a number of issues. Also updated in this release...
Hot off the presses is the release of VMware Workstation 11, and Player 7 Pro. Even though I have a full blown ESXi lab at home, I still find uses for VMware Workstation. For example, I have Windows 10 tech preview running in a Workstation VM. For those of you...
As we near the end of this installation series, there are a couple of final areas to cover. Up in this installment is configuring SSL. Now you may be thinking, SQL and SSL, really? Yes, for a good number of years SQL has supported the use of SSL for database...
We are nearing the end of the SQL 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Group series, with just Kerberos and SSL left to configure. In this installment we tackle Kerberos. Depending on your environment, you may or may not need Kerberos configured. Kerberos is only effective when using Windows authentication to your SQL server, not...