Nutanix has finished all of the qualification processes to certify VMware ESXi 7.0U2 and ESXi 7.0u2a for Nutanix NX G4, G5, G6 and G7 platforms. Both ESXi versions are supported with Foundation 5.0+ and LCM 2.4.1.1+. For ESXi 7.0U2 (fresh installs only), you need AOS 5.15.5 LTS or AOS 5.19.1+...
Update 8/25/2020: AOS 5.18 (STS) is now GA and AOS 5.15.2 (LTS) is now also GA. Both support vSphere 7.0. One of the cornerstones of Nutanix is choice. Choice of hardware platforms and choice of hypervisor. I am very pleased to announce that we now fully support VMware vSphere 7.0...
This was a good session presented by Proximal Data, focusing on using flash-based cache in your VMware environment. They have a product called AutoCache that boosts storage performance for VMware environments. Sounds like an interesting product. Session went by very fast, but here are some of the notes I took:...
Today I attended a killer session at VMworld 2009 on getting the most performance out of your disk array with VMware. After the session, my head was spinning with all the new information and the realization that optimizing your vSphere storage can be non-trivial. If you attended VMware world, please...
VMware has a good whitepaper on setting up a Microsoft fail-over cluster in vSphere. Unfortunately there are number of restrictions when using Microsoft clustering with VMware vSphere, which really put a damper on the practices in certain environments. The following environments and functionality are not supported for MSCS setups with...