You want to move a VM into AWS EC2 with as little knowledge as possible, right? You don’t care to become an expert in AWS, you just want enough to get the job done. Here is what you have to do, how to do it, and how long it will take. Time it: For a 15GB VM, this entire guide can take up to 4hrs to complete, depending on connection speed and VM size. Most of that time is waiting on uploads and conversions. I’m going to assume: You already have an AWS root account. If not, follow this guide […]
This has to be one of the most commonly requested integrations for SC. It seems like every time I talk about SC with a customer, they ask about Veeam integration. After what seems like a very long wait, the SC Storage Integration for Veeam is finally available! What this plugin does is orchestrate the SC snapshot engine so you can leverage the space efficient snapshots built into SC as part of your backup strategy. This enables the direct-SAN backup method within Veeam, essentially offloading some of your storage tasks to the SC array itself. There are some requirements:– SCOS 7.4.2 […]
Coming out of .NEXT 2017, we saw 3 major strategic announcements from Nutanix, as well as a number of smaller updates. Some of these had been previously announced, and some were all new. In this article, I’d like to give a quick overview on some of those smaller announcements or changes that didn’t get the press they may have deserved. First, lets review the big 3: Calm Xi Xtract These 3 updates are the ones you’ll find all over the trade papers if you search on Nutanix. They are stealing the spotlight, but there are some other noteworthy things that […]
In this article, I talked about the first of 3 major strategic announcements to come out of .NEXT 2017. That article goes over how the calm.io acquisition has been put to use by Nutanix in their Enterprise Cloud Platform. Now, lets talk about the 2nd major announcement, which is Xi and the partnership with Google Cloud Platform. One of the things I enjoy about being a Nutanix partner is the pace of innovation. They consistently come out with new ideas that I didn’t even know I needed. When I think back to the announcements from 2 years ago that they […]
