In my last article, I showed a simple way to read data from a Nutanix cluster using PHP. This method was simple because it didn’t have to send any data to the cluster, just retrieve it. We simply fetched a JSON file to show the data we wanted to show. […]
Nutanix has a nice complete REST API. Its well documented right inside the Prism interface via a REST API explorer. The other day, I found myself needing a way to quickly dissect the JSON output, for which I used PHP to present it in a particular format. Once I did […]
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 need 3 nodes, and 1 node doesn’t provide me with any fault tolerance. That said, I thought I might be able to […]
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, and should be top of your list for future years. Last year the big news was that Nutanix was […]
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, this feature will be available on AHV and ESXi. Its pretty cool. Check out the official feature page here. Here […]
Day 2 of the 2016 Nutanix .NEXT conference at the Wynn in Las Vegas. This morning brought out a couple interesting announcements, as well as the delivery of some features that were announced last year in Miami. Acropolis Block Services is the most interesting one to me. I expect some […]
Dell recently announced the release of SCOS 7.0. SCOS is the Storage Center Operating System, which is the software that runs Dells SC storage line, including the SCv2000, SC4020, SC8000, and SC9000, with more to come soon. These are the products that were formerly known as Compellent. Check out the […]
EMC World 2016 in Las Vegas just wrapped up a couple hours ago, and I thought I would share my thoughts on the Unity product line that was officially announced here. What it is: Unity is the next evolution of EMC’s midrange storage array. It would fall into the traditional […]
I have both servers running in my home lab right now, and thought a brief comparison of the 2 servers might be interesting to some folks who are shopping for their own home lab components. In terms of acquisition cost, the servers will be fairly comparable. At times, you can […]
Dell released the Dell SC9000 at Dell World 2015 in Austin TX this week. The SC9000 is the new high end Compellent controller, a space currently occupied by the SC8000. Much of the messaging I’ve consistently heard around the new Dell SC9000, however, is that it is not a replacement […]