Run a Windows 10 Instance in AWS EC2
You want a Microsoft Windows 10 instance in your EC2 environment. Maybe its for a jump box, maybe its for direct access to some RDS instances or other services. Whatever...
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Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: Rollup
Datacenter Disaster Recovery Hyperconverged Storage Virtualization
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...
Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: CALM
Datacenter Hyperconverged Virtualization
Today marks the end of the 3rd US Nutanix .NEXT conference. When I think back to the first .NEXT that I attended in 2015 in Miami, everything starts to click. At that...
Nutanix AOS 5.1 Available!
Datacenter Hyperconverged Virtualization
Just a quick note about Nutanix AOS 5.1 that was just released on 5/1/17. There are a few things in this update that I’ve been waiting for, so I thought I’d...
Nutanix CE Memory Requirements
Datacenter Homelab Hyperconverged Virtualization
Nutanix CE has a bunch of powerful features, and new ones are coming out all the time. Some of them, however, require the CVM to have additional RAM in order to work properly. For...
Nutanix CE 5.0 Released
Datacenter Homelab Hyperconverged Storage Virtualization
Nutanix 5.0 Asterisk was released in the commercial version about 2 weeks ago. Then, about a week ago, it became available in the CE version. I have already upgraded my...
Nutanix Android App Released!!
Datacenter Tech Soup Virtualization
I’ve finally released my Nutanix Android App on the Google Play app market. You’ll find it here. You may have read about this project on the Nutanix blog here:...
Running Nutanix CE on the Lenovo TS140
Datacenter Servers Virtualization
I’ve been meaning to setup a box running Nutanix CE for a while. I’m not going to use it for my “production” services at home, because I don’t...
Nutanix .NEXT 2016 Announcements
Datacenter Servers Storage Virtualization
I’m on the plane on my way home from the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Las Vegas. This years conference certainly lived up to the high standard set last year in Miami,...
Nutanix Acropolis File Services – .NEXT 2016
Datacenter Servers Storage Virtualization
Last year at .NEXT 2015 in Miami, Nutanix announced scale out NAS services which was for Acropolis only. In version 4.7, which was announced at .NEXT 2016 in Las Vegas,...