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...
The other day I had the occasion where I wanted to add back the Windows Server 2012 R2 GUI to a server core installation. This was a test environment, and for what I was testing I felt the GUI provided a more streamlined experience. Server core certainly has its places,...
Now that we have our SQL AAG up and running, there's still some configuration left to do. In this installment I cover SQL 2014 file share witness confiugration. In my example I'm doing a 2-node AAG, which means that we need a file share witness to help establish quorum. If...
After a brief pause in this SQL 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Group series, we are resuming with the server configuration. In this installment we will configure the Windows firewall to allow the two SQL servers to communicate to each other, configure a shared folder for the SQL replication, and finally configure...
In very exciting news Nutanix announced the industry's first hyperconverged all flash appliance, the NX-9240.  What makes this puppy special? Well it's a 2U appliance which contains two compute nodes, each with 6 SSDs. The SSDs can be either 800GB or the 1.6TB models. This means up to 19.2TB of RAW...