​Hot off the press is a bunch of new Nutanix software, via our Long Term Support (LTS) release cycle. AOS, Acropolis Operating System, is now up to version 5.10 as is Prism Central. Also in this release is an updated version of AHV (the Nutanix hypervisor). Our short term (STS)...
This post is part 2 of 2, of my NPX Architecture Guide how-to series. In this post we will cover sections 9 through 14, from the outline below. You can check out the first part of this series here. At the end I will also give you some more tips...
A couple of months ago I successfully defended my Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) certification and became number 14 in the world to obtain the certification. You can read all about that journey here. As part of the NPX certification process you submit a documentation package which should cover all of...
​NPX Resources​Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 1)Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 2)​The JourneyAlmost four years ago to the month my career took a major turn. I just successfully passed the VMware VCDX datacenter virtualization certification, to become #125 in the world. You can read about my VCP5 to...
The other day I was at a customer for a fresh installation of Nutanix using vSphere 6.5. And for whatever reason, when they were resetting the ESXi root password to their default, it was fat fingered. When they went to add the hosts to vCenter, they couldn't add them since...
I'm proud to announce that the Nutanix Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 guide has now been updated with U3 details. Specifically, in U3 there's a new registry key "EnableSameHostDirectNFSMode" that is now active for vSphere customers using DirectNFS. In Nutanix environments if you are using DirectNFS, you should configure this...
Hot off the press is the community edition of Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1, Community Edition (CE) 2017.07.20. For what's new in AOS 5.1.1.1, see my post here. You can find all the direct download links at the end of this post in the Next community. As always, you can perform a...
Hot off the press is Nutanix AFS 2.1.1 (Nutanix File Services). In case you don't know, AFS is a web-scale "NAS" that runs in a highly available configuration on Nutanix clusters. This has several important new features, plus a number of resolved issues. New features include: AFS Sizing workflow at...
Today I am glad to announce the general availability of Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1. This is a patch release, but it also has a few new features. Of interest to you will be the security patches (11 total), and a good sized list of resolved issues. You can find the full...
If you are a Nutanix customer and using AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor), I have some great news for you. We have released VirtIO 1.1 drivers, and the big deal is that they are now Microsoft WHQL signed. I know the lack of signing was holding back some customers for production workloads....