Category: Post-by-mail

  • Heading over to Nutanix GTS

    What could be just another sunday, might be a special one. It will be a long day with a flight to Las Vegas with a 4-hour stop in Boston. Hopefully it is worth the travel, but honestly I don’t have a doubt about that. Why GTS? I think it is an amazing event with (almost)…

  • Multipass, virtualization on personal devices

    Virtualization is not a new technology. It has been used for decades and I can’t imagine any organization that doesn’t use virtualization nowadays. IT administrators are even using virtualization on their notebook. Popular virtualization tools Tools that are widely used for virtualization on personal systems are VMware Workstation, Oracle Virtualbox, maybe even Hyper-V virtualization. On…

  • Nutanix .NEXT is coming back!

    Nutanix will host the .NEXT conference in Chicago next May. This will be the first big event organized by Nutanix since the beginning of the COVID pandemy. During this 2-day event, Nutanix will show you all the magic of the Nutanix Cloud Platform. For more information, just click https://www.nutanix.com/next

  • Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure is available

    Nutanix Cloud clusters (NC2) was already available on the public cloud of Amazon AWS, and (finally) now it is available in Azure. Of course it is first available in the States, but hopefully it will arrive in Europe (and the rest of the world) pretty soon. Why NC2? Why should you consider extending your on…

  • Nutanix gives freedom of choice in hardware

    Freedom is choice. And the Nutanix platform gives plenty of choices. We already knew about the different hypervisors you could choose from, and also the different hardware vendors. Nutanix offers an addition choice. The AMD Epyc processor of the new generation is added to the portfolio. This new generation CPU is entering the datacenter market.…

  • Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster

    Hopefully you will never need the information in this post. Lately, a wrong gateway was entered during the initial setup of a Nutanix cluster. Because the cluster was configured connected to a standalone switch, the typo was found when the cluster was already connected to the customers production network and was unreachable… Luckily you can…

  • Nutanix announced Xpress edition!

    Recently Nutanix annound the launch of the Xpress edition. With this model, Nutanix wants to serve the SMB customers, so they can enjoy all the benefits of the enterprise cloud platform, as there are: Ease of deployment; as the regular edition, the Xpress edition is deployed and configured very easily. Ease of Management; the whole…

  • Acropolis; Using the Filesystem Whitelist for migrating purposes

    Normally, the Nutanix containers can only be mounted to the Nutanix nodes in the cluster. For migrating purposes it can be really helpful to mount a Nutanix container on another Nutanix or non-Nutanix host. To allow this, a filesystem whitelist has to be configured.