AOS 5.9 is now available. This comes about 3 months after AOS 5.8 was released back in July. Its worth noting that this is the release that adds support for VMware 6.7. If you are currently running AOS 5.5 or better, you can upgrade straight to AOS 5.9. If you […]
Nutanix .NEXT 2018 was held the 2nd week of May in New Orleans this year. I have to say that I greatly appreciate attending a conference somewhere other than Las Vegas. Keep it up as long as you can Nutanix! There were a number of announcements, and quite a bit […]
Nutanix released AOS 5.6 on 4/16. In addition to a bunch of cool features we will highlight below, this also marks a change to a new release schedule. The new release schedule sounds a bit like what you might find from Ubuntu Linux. There will be long term support releases, […]
Coming out of .NEXT 2017, we saw 3 major strategic announcements from Nutanix, as well as a number of smaller updates. Some of these had been previously announced, and some were all new. In this article, I’d like to give a quick overview on some of those smaller announcements or […]
In this article, I talked about the first of 3 major strategic announcements to come out of .NEXT 2017. That article goes over how the calm.io acquisition has been put to use by Nutanix in their Enterprise Cloud Platform. Now, lets talk about the 2nd major announcement, which is Xi […]
Today marks the end of the 3rd US Nutanix .NEXT conference. When I think back to the first .NEXT that I attended in 2015 in Miami, everything starts to click. At that very first .NEXT conference, there was lots of hinting towards integrations with cloud providers. At the time, all […]
Just a quick note about Nutanix AOS 5.1 that was just released on 5/1/17. There are a few things in this update that I’ve been waiting for, so I thought I’d outline a couple of the more interesting changes here. User Defined Alerts. This is really cool. As a […]
Nutanix CE has a bunch of powerful features, and new ones are coming out all the time. Some of them, however, require the CVM to have additional RAM in order to work properly. For example, in version 5.0 of both the commercial and CE product, Nutanix added a cool new […]
Nutanix 5.0 Asterisk was released in the commercial version about 2 weeks ago. Then, about a week ago, it became available in the CE version. I have already upgraded my home lab to run CE 5.0, and wanted to take a few minutes to talk about some of the key […]
I’ve finally released my Nutanix Android App on the Google Play app market. You’ll find it here. You may have read about this project on the Nutanix blog here: https://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/Using-the-REST-API-to-Power-an-Android-App/ba-p/14072. The app gives you the ability to perform many of the management features that you can do via Prism from […]