Nutanix Files 3.5 is now GA – Derek Seaman’s IT Blog

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 profiles, departmental shares, and application logs. It can be deployed on AHV and vSphere clusters and offers many enterprise features such as easy deployment and manageability, 1-click upgrade, disaster recovery, high availability, user-level and share-level quotas, Windows previous versions, full Active Directory integration, and access-based enumeration.

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Sizing Solutions Across CPU Generations — Long White Virtual Clouds

When the time for refresh of your existing IT equipment comes, no doubt you’ll have some old CPU’s. But how do you determine how many cores you’ll need? What type of processor would be best for the new environment? How many servers/hosts does that translates to, especially if your workloads are virtualized? A lot of…

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Nutanix Move 3.0 (formerly Xtract for VMs) now GA — Derek Seaman’s Blog

Advertise here with BSA 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. 54 more words

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NU School (Nutanix Education Portal) — Al Rasheed – A personal Blog about IT related subjects.

Interested in learning more about Nutanix products? Or maybe you’re pursuing a Nutanix certification and need to brush up before taking the exam? Look no further than the Nutanix Education portal commonly referred to as the NU School. The training options include in-person (boot camps) or virtual training. Personally, I’ve only used the virtual training […]

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Rebuild Time: Nutanix Community Edition 5.10 Released! — Bacon, Overlays and Virtualization

I love the fact that Nutanix provides a Community Edition for those of us with home labs, I can bring the Enterprise Cloud I so enjoy deploying for customers close to home. Sure, would I love to have a small NX-1365 in the rack at home, who wouldn’t? Maybe someday… But in the…

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Nutanix AHV Turbo for Windows now available.

Not so long back in time Nutanix announces a hot new unique feature in AOS 5.5 called Frodo, I mean AHV Turbo Mode, as the name suggest which key I press to enable turbo mode..

In general AHV present the single queue VirtIO-SCSI controller for VM’s, this controller can only submit 128 request at a time regardless of vCPU or number of disks.

In VMware vSphere world to get more IO throughput we used to add additional SCSI controllers and distribute disks across them, with the implementation of AHV Turbo Nutanix had introduced Frodo on AHV Host which bypasses QEMU and processes storage IOs as multi queue based on number of vCPU of VM.

The AHV Turbo mode is not a feature, rather native capability, for Linux guest VMs make sure you have Linux kernel supports (newer kernels do that by default) the blk_mq (block multiqueue) option, add the kernel parameter “scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1” to enable blk_mq and remove the elevator=noop option.

With introduction to Nutanix VirtIO version 1.1.4 the same enhanced Storage IO throughput is now available for Windows guest VMs. For VMs having more than 2 vCPUs higher throughput might be observed after installing VirtIO 1.1.4.

To understand more about Nutanix Turbo Mode refer to Nutanix Bible here or Nutanix Blog here

 

Solving Oracle & SQL Licensing challenges with Nutanix — CloudXC

The Nutanix platform has and will continue to evolve to meet/exceed the ever increasing customer and application requirements while working within constraints such as licensing. Two of the most common workloads which I work frequently with customers to design solutions around real or perceived licensing constraints … Continue reading →

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