For mission-critical applications in various industries like banking, capital markets, insurance and healthcare, there is a need to support highly available synchronous data replication to ensure high level platform protection and availability. Providing this functionality is key for a business to function unhindered. The cost of data unavailability can be significant to a business, with some estimates measuring the impact at several thousand dollars per minute and upwards of six figures or more...
Sep 25, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 72
As new cybersecurity threats evolve, Nutanix has been hard at work improving the way you patch, upgrade, and operate your Nutanix Cloud Platform. We understand how critical and difficult patching and upgrading can be, especially in a world under constant attack. You must be resilient, and proper lifecycle management improves your cyber resilience ! We know that upgrades can be a bit intimidating, but fear not! Nutanix is continually working to make the process smoother and more efficient. We’re ...
Aug 08, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Federation is an exciting and important new feature that was added to Nutanix Objects in the 4.0 release (Spring 2023). It enables a global namespace to be created across multiple Nutanix object stores, even if they are thousands of miles apart in entirely different geographic locations. Buckets hosted by these different object stores then appear to exist within a single object store, offering a consolidated view of the data. https://www.nutanix.dev/2023/07/10/simplifying-access-to-geo-distribut...
Jul 25, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 70
One of the leading concerns of moving to a new hypervisor is the perceived risk and cost of migrating. Nutanix Move makes migrating to Nutanix AHV simple, and over the past year, more than 100,000 virtual machines (VMs) have been migrated to AHV. While there are several ways to migrate from traditional 3-tier infrastructure or competing on-premises or public platforms, multiple factors are leading to the rapid adoption of AHV and Nutanix Move. Host: Andy Whiteside Co-host: Jirah Cox Co-host: Ben...
Jul 11, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Customers with the most demanding workloads will be excited to see the latest expansion of database support on the Nutanix Cloud Platform that provides a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and optimizes performance. The enhancements, which became available to Nutanix customers as part of the AOS 6.6.2 release, include support for compute-only nodes running either VMware ESXi or Nutanix AHV along with best practices for optimally configuring hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) database clusters ...
Jun 13, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 68
During its annual .NEXT conference , Nutanix, the leading provider of hybrid multicloud infrastructure solutions, unveiled a series of new product offerings and an ambitious vision to help customers streamline their operations across distributed environments and accelerate the deployment of modern applications. Project Beacon Nutanix announced Project Beacon , a multi-year effort to deliver a portfolio of data-centric Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) level services available natively anywhere – incl...
May 22, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 67
The Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Cost Governance™ solution is ideal for customers challenged by the ongoing analysis and reporting of spend by cost center, driving accountability against budgets, and finding opportunities to optimize your cloud spend. Through one unified interface, NCM Cost Governance allows customers to manage costs across their public, private, and hybrid multicloud environments. As investment in public cloud resources increases, the need for robust cost management across hybri...
Apr 21, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 66
The recent pandemic upped the ante on IT modernization as most organizations accelerated cloud deployments to support workforces that distributed overnight. Now as we emerge on the other side, many enterprises are reexamining their workload deployments in the face of escalating cloud costs. Indeed, Gartner® predicts that “by 2027, 85 percent of the workload placements made until 2022 will no longer be optimal, due to changing requirements.”1 As enterprises pursue more agile, mobile, and portable...
Mar 23, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 65
In this multi-part series, the goal is to first familiarize you with the solution and then provide guidance on preparing to deploy Flow Network Security and help you learn the constructs that form your policy framework. So, what is Flow Network Security? By now, you may have heard the name, read about it or had a conversation about it with a Nutanix employee. First off, and in most basic terms, Flow Network Security is built-in security for workloads that run on Nutanix AHV, our native hyperviso...
Jan 25, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Within Nutanix we have Replication Factor (How many data copies are written in the cluster) and Redundancy Factor (how many nodes/disks can go offline). Both can have a value of 2 and 3. What is what is explained here: Blog Post. So, when we have a larger cluster, we always recommend using RF3 (Redundancy Factor 3) as the risk is higher that you have multiple nodes/disks go offline at the same time. During trainings and onsite customer work I often get the question, "what will happen if multiple...
Dec 16, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Nutanix launches the most significant update yet to its Nutanix Cloud Clusters™ (NC2) hybrid cloud software, now enabling organizations to run the Nutanix Cloud Platform™ software on the Microsoft Azure® cloud service. With support for both the AWS and Azure clouds, NC2 is a true hybrid multicloud platform. It provides easy access to Azure services from customer VNets running enterprise applications. There’s a simple migration path for applications without modification, and expanded license port...
Dec 05, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Nutanix launches the most significant update yet to its Nutanix Cloud Clusters™ (NC2) hybrid cloud software, now enabling organizations to run the Nutanix Cloud Platform™ software on the Microsoft Azure® cloud service. With support for both the AWS and Azure clouds, NC2 is a true hybrid multicloud platform. It provides easy access to Azure services from customer VNets running enterprise applications. There’s a simple migration path for applications without modification, and expanded license port...
Nov 02, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Storms, tornadoes, human error, and ransomware. While these disruptions have different root causes, the potential aftermath is the same: downtime and data loss. On average, downtime costs organizations $540,000 per hour. Every minute of downtime is a direct hit on revenue, reliability, and reputation. This is one of the most dreaded situations an IT department can face, which is why it’s crucial to have a strong data protection plan in place. Nutanix’s Cloud Platform’s data protection capabiliti...
Oct 04, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 60
The results are in! With NVIDIA’s newest GPUs designed for virtual desktops and applications, you can address a wider variety of use cases than you could ever before. In our independent testing using the NVIDIA® nVector benchmarking tool, we saw that a single A16 GPU could support 64 virtual desktops, each with 2vCPUs and 1GB framebuffer profiles, per node. With two A16 cards installed we were able to scale to 128, albeit we would recommend a high-performance CPU when scaling to 128 desktops. In...
Sep 13, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Get excited! The latest upgrade to the core Nutanix® hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software is live. The AOS™ 6.5 release is our most comprehensive update ever, with improved performance, security, and integrated data services required for demanding database workloads and business critical applications. We encourage you to take a fresh look at AOS 6.5 while keeping three key things in mind: Performance-hungry business-critical applications and databases are coming to HCI Cyber-resilience i...
Aug 09, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 58
We're pleased to announce that the Approval Policies feature is now available in Tech Preview for the Nutanix Cloud Manager™ (NCM) Self-Service. NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm) provides an easy and seamless way to consume simple Infrastructure as a Service VMs and multi-tier applications via the marketplace[JG1] . This is possible via easy to use blueprints to automate complex application deployment processes. As NCM Self-Service continues to grow its footprint across enterprise deployments, cu...
Jul 26, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Data is the lifeblood of today’s enterprises, and an extremely lucrative target for attackers. Ransomware, which essentially holds data “hostage” by encrypting it until a ransom is paid by the company, is increasingly common and becoming more advanced every day. In fact, some estimates say that a ransomware attack occurs every 11 seconds. These attacks can cripple an organization, causing unexpected downtime and wreaking havoc on an enterprise’s operations, production, customer service, and even...
Jul 20, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 56
On my previous blog ( Link ) I showed you how to build a metro availability. Now I want to "upgrade" both clusters to AHV and enable data protection with the help of Leap to achieve an RPO of zero (0). This blog post are two posts combined. First is the in-place conversion of ESX to AHV and the second is how to enable and configure Leap. Host: Harvey Green Co-host: Jirah Cox Co-host: Ben Rogers...
Jul 13, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 55
With unstructured data growing exponentially, securing shared storage is increasingly becoming difficult. It is an operational nightmare to identify datacenter weak points let alone predict the next threat. Ransomware attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated, surpassing firewalls and anti-virus software. Does this sound familiar? You plug one hole another opens, you update software, you train end users on how to detect suspicious files or emails but the threats keep coming. The rise of R...
Jun 29, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Host: Andy Whiteside Co-host: Harvey Green Co-host: Jirah Cox
May 11, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Although Kubernetes was originally designed to run stateless workloads, the technology has matured over time and enterprises are increasingly adopting the platform to run their stateful applications. In a survey conducted by the Data on Kubernetes community, 90% of the respondents believe that Kubernetes is ready for stateful workloads, and 70% of them are already running them in production with databases taking the top spot. Having the ability to standardize different workloads on Kubernetes an...
May 05, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Purpose The infrastructure for Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) supports a tenant cluster and a production virtual private cloud (VPC) for each customer. Customers generally have production VMs running in their on-premises cluster, which is connected to the DRaaS VPC using an IPsec tunnel. This is used by the DRaaS workflow to replicate on-premises production data. During a disaster recovery situation or while running disaster recovery tests, VMs will failover from on-premises to t...
Apr 26, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Introduced with the Nutanix Files™ release 3.8, Smart DR brought share-level replication between active file server instances for disaster recovery. If you’re not yet familiar with Smart DR, you can get an overview of the feature and its benefits here . Shortly after its initial release, Nutanix introduced 1-minute replication interval support with the Files 3.8.1 release. The recent Files release 4.0 further enhances Smart DR with scalability improvements and self-service restore (SSR) integrat...
Apr 25, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 50
The Nutanix Files™storage solution introduces new enhancements in its newest 4.0 release that improve client performance, enhance file server compute efficiency, and deliver a consistent experience in mixed environments. We’ve also done some scalability testing we’re excited to share. Improving Synchronous Random Write Performance CPU Scheduling with NFS Flow Control with Nutanix Volumes Pushing the Performance Envelope Host: Andy Whiteside Co-host: Havey Green Co-host: Jirah Cox...
Apr 12, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 49
I want to start this post with a quote by an Infrastructure Engineer from a food and beverage company that we received a few days ago, “ As always, very impressed with Support. We rarely need them, but the team was great helping us through this one and their help was much appreciated .” Feedback is a gift as it helps us understand what we are doing well but also where we need to improve. I see feedback like this everyday and it reiterates why Nutanix Support is known throughout the industry for ...
Apr 05, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 48
新年快樂! Wishing those who celebrate a prosperous and healthy Year of the Tiger! With new year celebrations, comes resolve. Usually everyone does this one January 1, but it’s never too late to celebrate the new year and make a new resolve. 2022 is in full swing and that means understanding your database challenges and simplifying that complexity should be at the top of your priority list. Let’s make this a New Year’s Resolution for IT to deliver. Nutanix has partnered with HPE to power up your data...
Mar 22, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Fast and flexible access to IT infrastructure has become a critical success factor for modern business. Nutanix and Equinix have joined up to help enterprise IT teams reduce time to market for new applications and services. Equinix Metal™ enables as-a-service infrastructure deployment globally and rapid scalability for hyperconverged infrastructure using the Nutanix® Cloud Platform, enabling you to shift CapEx to OpEx while reducing hardware spending on key workloads and enhancing your ability t...
Mar 18, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Hyperconverged storage is a part of hyperconverged infrastructure that brings cloud architecture to IT datacenters and powers modern enterprise applications without the need for dedicated storage arrays and storage teams. It uses distributed storage algorithms to keep data protected, available, and secure at all times. Compared to traditional infrastructure, hyperconverged storage makes it easier for IT admins to manage storage resources and lower total cost of ownership, securing better pricing...
Mar 10, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 45
This week Nutanix announced the general availability release of our AOS™ 6.1 infrastructure software, delivering to customers higher performance, simpler management, enhanced orchestration capabilities, and more. The new functionality enhances the value of our customers’ HCI deployments and further simplifies deployment and provisioning, and customers can easily upgrade to this new version to benefit from these new capabilities. An increasing number of IT organizations are standardizing on Nutan...
Mar 03, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Cybersecurity attacks are becoming progressively complex with an increase in Cloud, Digitization, and Work-from-Anywhere practices. State, Local, and Education (SLED) organizations must begin improving their security posture and aligning to a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Since organizations are required to move away from perimeter-based security solutions, they will need to modernize their IT operations, increase agility, and work to implement network, application, user and data-based security...
Feb 21, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 43
