Nutanix Files 3.5 is now GA
Previously known as AFS (Acropolis File Services), Nutanix Files v3.5 is now GA. For those of you unfamilar with Files, here's a short description:Nutanix Files (formerly known as AFS) is a software-defined scale-out file server. Nutanix Files can be used as the repository for unstructured data like home directories, user...
Nutanix Move 3.0 (formerly Xtract for VMs) now GA
Hot off the press is Nutanix Move 3.0. Now you might be asking what is Nutanix Move 3.0? Move 3.0 is the next major release of the product formerly called Xtract for VMs. Xtract for VMs was a free Nutanix product that enables super easy migration of VMs to the...
Using Red Hat Satellite Server with Nutanix AHV
NOTICE: Nutanix has released an official Red Hat Satellite server integration RPM that superceeds the manual procedure in this blog post. Please refer to the Nutanix.com blog post here for more details on how to download and use the RPM.Do you need to integrate Red Hat Satellite Server with Nutanix...
Windows Storage Spaces with Nutanix
Nutanix is a great platform for running a range of workloads from small, medium, to large. As disk capacity requirements increase, it can be beneficial to back large data disks (e.g. 1TB+) with multiple smaller virtual disks (vDisks). Although not set in stone, using 4-6 virtual disks instead of one...
Nutanix Prism Central RBAC
In a very high percentage of enterprise environments you need to securely delegate access to various applications and infrastructure components. Unless you work in a mom and pop IT shop, you should follow the security principle of 'least privilege' with RBAC (Role based access controls). This means a person with...
Nutanix Acropolis 5.10.0.1 Released
A couple of weeks ago Nutanix AOS 5.10 was released, along with new versions of AHV (Nutanix Hypervisor) and NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check). These were long term support releases and contains a lot of new features. Today, we released a minor patch release for AOS and Prism Central, version 5.10.0.1....
Nutanix Foundation Portable Betas Available
For Nutanix partners, you will be familiar with our Foundation product. Foundation is how Nutanix bootstraps the hypervisor of your choice and our software stack on to bare metal hardware. Over the years Foundation has evolved and now comes in different forms, for different use cases. Partners and some customers...
Nutanix “Files” 3.2.0 Now GA
Hot off the press is Nutanix Files, at version 3.2.0. Nutanix Files is our distributed SMB and NFS v4 file server, which runs on the Nutanix platform. Major new features in Files 3.2.0 includes: 140 TB file shares - Files supports shares and exports of up to 140 TB in...
Veeam Update for Nutanix AHV Customers
Just a quick note that Veeam has updated their AHV Proxy appliance to build 1.0.457. This corrects a number of bugs, and a critical data corruption issue. So this is a MUST have patch for any Veeam customers using it along side Nutanix AHV. You can download Veeam Availability for...