So the last couple of days I have tried to wrap my head around Direct NFS support which is coming in Veeam v9. The cool thing about this feature is that Veeam has a custom built NFS agent, which will go directly to the NFS share (only needs READ access) and export the snapshot data …
Setting up NFS Direct Veeam against Nutanix cluster Read More »
Ever since I heard that this feature was included in 4.5 I was eager to give it a spin, but since it is still in TP It was difficult to find any particular documentation regarding the feature, the only mention was in the release notes and some blog posts I found. Now since it was …
Enabling file-level restore on Nutanix in NOS 4.5.1 Read More »
So earlier today I was looking at the Pin to SSD video from Andre Leibovici , shown here –> http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=7334 and figured I wanted to give this feature a spin.. But no matter where I looked I didn’t find the same feature within Prism, luckily thanks to the twitter gods I got in touch with …
Now that I have my hands on some Nutanix hardware it was about time to play a little bit with the features that are available on the platform. All of the stuff we do in PRISM is linked to the REST API, Nutanix also has a PowerShell cmdlets which also leverages the REST API. Downloading …
Nutanix has a management pack available for several monitoring solutions such as Solarwinds, Nagios and of course Operations Manager, which allows us to monitor hardware / DSF / hypervisor directly into Operations Manager. Now combining this with the service management capabilities that Operations Manager has is a killer combo. Now the setup is pretty simple …
There has been a lot of fuzz around storage spaces direct coming with Windows Server 2016, and I have been getting alot of questions around it lately. “Will it solve my storage issues?” “can we replace our existing SAN?” “When to choose SPD over SAN” and so on. Now as of right now, not all …
Comparison Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and Nutanix Read More »
Now Citrix has for a long time, support for most of the different hypervisors. Meaning that customers gets the flexibility to choose a number of different hypervisors if they are planning to use XenApp/XenDesktop. This support is also included for Netscaler as well. So as of today, Citrix supports XenServer, Hyper-V, Vmware, Amazon, Cloudplatform. As …
So another blogpost in this storage series with Hyper-V, in the previous posts I discussed a bit about what features Hyper-V has and the issues with them. Well time to take that to the next level. Just to show how Nutanix solves the performance issues and how Microsoft does it with their Windows Server features. …
Hyper-V and Storage features deep-dive comparison with Nutanix Read More »
In my previous blog post I discussed a bit about software defined options using Hyper-V https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/software-defined-storage-options-for-hyper-v/ and that Windows Server is getting alot of good built-in capabilities but lacks the proper scale out solution with performance, which is also something that is coming with Windows Server 2016. Now one of the vendors which I talked …
For those wandering on social media and saw some fuzz about .NEXT conference from Nutanix and wondering what that was all about, let me enlighten you. Nutanix which is become a well known player in the hyperconverged has their first user confernce this week in Miami and has some spectacular announcements. Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform: …
