Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: Xtract
The 3rd annual Nutanix .NEXT held in Washington DC at the end of June 2017 brought 3 major strategic announcements to light. I talk about the first one, Calm, here. The...
Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: XI and GCP
Datacenter Disaster Recovery Hyperconverged
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...
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...
Dell Releases New SC5020
I previously blogged about the release of the SC7020, which is part of the “odd number refresh” that has now added the SC5020. By this, I mean that it appears...
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...
How to Install Crashplan on Your Headless NAS
One of the most popular articles of all time on this blog has been an article on how to get CrashPlan running on a headless server. Crashplan changed some things in how...
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:...
Nutanix: How to Create a New Storage Container with PHP
I recently had a need to create a new container in an existing Nutanix storage pool from a web interface. I did it using PHP. I figured since I wrote the code, which is...