Within a default next next finish installation of a Nutanix cluster all physical interfaces are member of virtual switch 0 (vs0). First thing we do is remove the wrong interfaces from the vs0 and create a separate virtual switch (vs1) with the interfaces which are removed from vs0. Nutanix AHV (Hypervisor) and AOS (CVM) must […]

I got this question a lot during my trainings so hereby an explanation what “Approval Policies” are and howto configure them. Lets start with the easy question: What are approval policies? With APs we can protect recovery points from deletion. At lease three administrators (or more) must approve each deletion. This is for Recovery Points […]

Beginning April this year, I attended the Nutanix .Next event in Chicago (sorry for the late posting of this blogpost, as a one-men-company, I’m terrible busy at the moment). This is the annual global event where Nutanix is announcing all the cool new stuff which is coming. This is also one of the events where […]

Whilst I am a huge advocate for being as ‘self sustainable’ as possible when it comes to working with partners or vendors – sometimes you can’t solve something on your own and you do need to ask their technical support folks for a hand. When that does happens though, be smart, do a bit of […]

On Wednesday 6th May I was fortunate to join a group of likeminded folks from the channel for a day in London hosted by Nutanix featuring guest speakers from Omnissa and Parallels. Not quite Palm Springs for NerdioCon but it was still sunny…just. A hats off and thank you to Stu Bland and Ludmilla Dias […]

Traditionally we’ve faced a choice when deploying Nutanix NC2 on Azure when it came to the Flow Gateway. With static routing (User Defined Routes – UDR) within Azure, the route table only supported directing traffic to a single IP address – so a single Flow Gateway. Or with Dynamic Routing within Azure, we could use […]

Nutanix continues to update certifications to version 7.5 and announced an updated certification, Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation (NCP‑DB) 7.5. This certification demonstrates your abilities to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Nutanix Database Service (NDB), a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform. You can find the blueprint here, and do not forget to check Nutanix Database Service Administration […]

Nutanix announced an update of the starter certification, called Nutanix Certified Associate 7.5. For now this certification is in the beta state. As usual, the beta exams are completely free for the first 250 participants; simply use the following discount during checkout: NCA75BETANEW. You can schedule this exam from Nutanix University. Exam appointments offered from now […]

In this article, I will cover the process of deploying a minimal Kubernetes cluster, consisting of one Contro plane node and one Worker node using kubeadm tool. We will walk through a few steps: OS preparation, installing Container Runtime and necessary Kubernetes packages, forming a cluster and in addition, we will install Cilium as a […]

Real-World HCI Testing with Nutanix X-Ray 7.0 Most infrastructure benchmarks lie to you — not deliberately, but by design. They measure peak IOPS under perfect […]

Right now, we are in the vacuum between the morning sessions and the first keynote of the event. With 5000 attendees, .NEXT is a real […]

Today, the event has the kick-off in McCormick Place in the beautiful city of Chicago. The coming three days, we will be overwhelmed by Nutanix […]