In Part 1 we learned about the new Platform Availability, Resiliency and Integrity X-Ray test and what constitutes successful and unsuccessful (fail) results. In Part 2 we will look at a range of test results for Nutanix AOS 5.19 and … Continue reading →
HCI Platform Availability, Resiliency & Integrity – Part 2 – Nutanix AOS vs VMware vSAN/Dell VxRAIL — CloudXC
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HCI Platform Availability, Resiliency & Integrity – Part 1 — CloudXC
I am pleased to announce the soon to be released “Platform Availability, Resiliency & Integrity” scenario for X-Ray. For those of you not familiar with X-ray, X-Ray is an automated testing framework and benchmarking solution that offers comprehensive 360° assessments … Continue reading →
HCI Platform Availability, Resiliency & Integrity – Part 1 — CloudXC
A Generalized workload generator for storage IO — n0derunner
With help from the Nutanix X-Ray team I have created an IO “benchmark” which simulates a “General Server Virtualization” workload. I call it the “Mixed Workload Simulator“ Mixed Workload Simulator The goals of this benchmark/generator are : Closely simulate 10’s to 100’s of VM’s all acting independently Actually deploy 100’s or 1000’s of VMs to……
A Generalized workload generator for storage IO — n0derunner
Nutanix Prism Central Upgrade — Al Rasheed – A personal Blog about IT related subjects.
The purpose of this blog post is to provide the guidance and steps needed to upgrade Nutanix Prism Central. Before we begin with the upgrade, it is always a good practice to initiate a NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) in Prism before moving forward with the Prism Central upgrade. In order to do so, please log […]
Nutanix Prism Central Upgrade — Al Rasheed – A personal Blog about IT related subjects.
NPX – The Right Hypervisor — vcdx133.com
I was talking to some potential NPX candidates the other day and I was describing the strategy for selecting the correct hypervisors for the NPX Design Review (NDR). Nutanix is a hypervisor agnostic platform, you can use ESXi, Hyper-V, AHV (KVM-base) or Citrix (for Citrix VDI only). The NPX candidate needs to choose two hypervisors […]
NPX – The Right Hypervisor — vcdx133.com
Giving a Kickass Product Demo — TECHNICLOUD
Technologists of all career paths should be able to ace giving a technical demo — not just folks in public facing roles. As an architect, product manager, or engineer you may need to give an internal product demo for a prototype or proof of concept. It takes a mix of science (methodology) and art (storytelling) […]
Giving a Kickass Product Demo — TECHNICLOUD
Fight the FUD: Data Rebuilds — CloudXC
These claims came were most recently provided to a Nutanix customer in June 2020. DellEMC/VMware claim #1: “Disk rebuilds will occur based on user-defined settings.” INCORRECT! Funnily enough, vSAN/VxRAIL is actually the product which allows the user to configure a … Continue reading →
Fight the FUD: Data Rebuilds — CloudXC
Think Data Locality is just about Storage Performance? Think again! — CloudXC
Despite Nutanix competitors desperately grasping at straws to try and convince themselves and customers that Data locality doesn’t matter, the fact remains that unnecessary use of any resource including networking just leads to inefficiency and bottlenecks which can impact functionality … Continue reading →
Think Data Locality is just about Storage Performance? Think again! — CloudXC
Data Locality Comparison – Nutanix AOS vs the competition – Part 1 — CloudXC
From Day 1, Nutanix AOS was designed and built to be a truly distributed storage fabric where data integrity, consistency, scalability & resiliency were and remain top priorities. As part of this design, ensuring minimal dependancies on the network was … Continue reading →
Data Locality Comparison – Nutanix AOS vs the competition – Part 1 — CloudXC
Video: PowerShell 7 Cmdlets as a replacement for ping, arp, traceroute and nmap — SID-500.COM
Hi PowerShell fellows, In this video I show you how to use PowerShell 7 cmdlets for various network tasks. Find the code samples at the very bottom. Hope you enjoy it!
Video: PowerShell 7 Cmdlets as a replacement for ping, arp, traceroute and nmap — SID-500.COM
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