Sending a shout out to the HYCU, Inc. team for an incredible customer event yesterday in Boston! From roadmaps and demos to soliciting customer feedback, #HYCU is a company that cares about its customers! 💜
Mother nature’s 2-hour rain delay meant 2 additional hours spent with great customers, and great HYCUians (🤷🏻♂️)
Thanks to the Boston Red Sox for hosting the event, the tour, the suite, and a W! ⚾️
Thanks to everyone for putting this awesome event together! 🟪
Nutanix just announced their selection of the 2023 Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC).
Once again, I am proud to have been selected to this year’s groups of very elite and intelligent individuals. This is my 7th year in a row being part of the NTC program and I could not be more appreciative to be part of this amazing community!
I look forward to a year of collaboration and community, and the ability to return to in-person events, such as the Nutanix Global Tech Summit and Nutanix .NEXT!
Nutanix is pleased to announce that applications are now open for Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC) for 2023 calendar year candidates!
https://bit.ly/NutanixNTC2023Applications 🤓
* The deadline if applying is coming quickly – November 4, 2022, at midnight PST. 🕛
If you feel you have what it takes to be an expert and champion with Nutanix – including being an active community participant, a technology evangelist, and a collaborative knowledge leader – Apply Today! ✍🏻
You can reference my post from last year (2022) on becoming a 6th consecutive year member of the awesome Nutanix NTC Program!
https://wheredidireadthat.online/2021/12/19/nutanix-technology-champion-2022/
Good luck to all!
Nutanix has just released the long-awaited Life Cycle Manager (LCM) 2.5 version.
What is Nutanix LCM?
Nutanix LCM is the infrastructure framework that upgrades Nutanix software and component firmware on Nutanix cloud platforms.
Rather than manually installing one component at a time, LCM efficiently inventories and programmatically handles the deployment dependencies and order of operations for upgrades.
LCM can handle upgrades such as:
For a good read on “How Upgrades Work at Nutanix”, please refer to this link to understand possible implications to downtime (spoiler alert: None! 😯), performance impacts, order and compatibility – https://bit.ly/HowNutanixUpgradesWork
On September 21, 2022, Nutanix release Life Cycle Manager Version 2.5. 🥳
– Release Notes – https://bit.ly/NutanixLCM25
In addition to dozens of fixed and improved issues, Nutanix introduced a New Feature that should make the VDI/EUC community jump for joy: 😎
GPU support
LCM 2.5 adds inventory and update support for NVIDIA GRID drivers for GPU cards. For details on using LCM with NVIDIA GRID drivers, see the Life Cycle Manager Guide.
Upgrading NVIDIA GRID drivers traditionally required a very delicate upgrade process, ensuring that the guest and host driver were compatible. Then, complex CLI commands were required to upgrade the AHV host driver, one host at a time.
Not any longer! Now, LCM 2.5 will – in a single reboot – auto-uninstall the old driver, install the new driver, all while vGPU VMs are transparently live migrated to other nodes during the upgrade process.
No user downtime ✅
Automation and operational efficiency ✅
Here is the NEW way to update your Nutanix AHV Host NVIDIA GRID Drivers:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Life-Cycle-Manager-Guide-v2_5:top-lcm-ngd-update-t.html
Much better!
Being a Cohesity Partner has a number of benefits.
Also, the Cohesity Marketing team is top-notch! 🙌🏻
🗣 A big shout out to Debbie Gililland, Patty Crowell and Shelly Pippin!
Every month, the team has been leading two Cohesity Partner Beats session – one sales and one technical. The team delivers timely, relevant news that enables our organization to stay sharp on Cohesity offerings.
On April 14th, the team led a great session, delivering a sneak peek into Cohesity FortKnox – a Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) offering. FortKnox is a SaaS data isolation and recovery solution that improves cyber resiliency in the case of a ransomware attack or other data disaster.
Thank you to the Cohesity Partner team for the wonderful insight during these sessions and specifically for the awesome Cohesity Swag Bag I won as a result of attending this session. The drawstring bag, pen, water bottle and socks have already been put to great use. Now, I just need to muster up the chutzpah to wear the fanny pack 🤪
#cohesitypartners
Are you interested in learning, or learning more about #Nutanix? 👍🏼
Looking to get #Nutanix #Certified – NCA, NCP, NCM? 👨🏻🎓
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Once you’re ready to take your exam, just enter the voucher code when you register – [ NTXRF22D ]
This limited time offer:
As part of the 2022 class of the Nutanix Technology Champions – and 6th year returning Champion, I am excited to give back to the technology community and present to you a voucher (Value of $99-$199) for joining other knowledge leaders around Hybrid Cloud!
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What do you have to lose? 🤷🏻♂️ 🤷🏻♀️
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Last week, Nutanix announced their selection of the 2022 Nutanix Technology Champions.
I am very happy and proud to have been selected, again, to this year’s groups of elite individuals. This is my 6th year in a row being part of the NTC program and I could not be more proud to be part of this amazing community!
Nutanix NTC – This program recognizes Nutanix hybrid multi-cloud experts for their ongoing and consistent external contributions to the community and industry. Nutanix Technology Champions are our advocates and technology ambassadors who influence change with practical advice and bold ideas. The NTC program provides unique opportunities to expand their knowledge further, amplify their brand, and help shape the future of the hybrid multi-cloud. ☁️
Congratulations to all of those who were admitted into the 2022 NTC program! 🎉
…And, as this is an ‘each one, reach one‘ community – for those interested in pursuing this journey for 2023 – please do not hesitate to reach out to me! 🗣
Thank you to Angelo Luciani and the rest of the Nutanix team who makes this great community possible. 🙏🏻
It is difficult to put into words what I just experienced…again. I just returned from a 4-day whirlwind conference, surrounded by some of the most talented technical minds I have had the privilege of spending time with. This is my second consecutive year of having the honor of being welcomed to the Nutanix Global Tech Summit conference.
What used to be an internal, engineer-only event was opened last year to strategic Nutanix partners. This year, with the abundance of new engineering hires and involvement of other Nutanix employees (CSM, TME, and many other acronyms), it was massive in comparison. At nearly 1,000 strong – this was an incredible event to be a part of.
The conference itself was a great mixture of time spent bonding with Nutanix engineers, product managers, directors and VPs. And, as I mentioned above – partners. Yes, the same partners that I and Helient Systems may compete with on a daily basis, both in my territory and in other geographies. But, it is a massive world, with billions of dollars of opportunity out there.
What I came here for is to learn the ins and outs of every Nutanix product — past, present and future 👀. I never want to sell a ‘product.’
I want to sell solutions.
My goal when working with customers is to help understand your organizational business and technical needs and ensure there is a solution that will compliment those goals.
Riiiiight says the industry. Nutanix is a just a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) replacement for your traditional 3-Tier Server and Storage.
Sure…it was…in 2011. Then 4 years later, Nutanix AHV released, giving customer’s choice at the hypervisor layer. So what did the last 4 years bring? This blog post would scroll nearly indefinitely trying to list all of the released features and capabilities. Shout out to Jake Tame for taking care of this already – Nutanix AOS / Product Release Timeline.
Today, we’re here – offering solutions for more than just HCI – Objects, Databases, Application Orchestraction and Automation, EUC/VDI Solutions, Disaster Recovery, Public Cloud cost control and security elimination, and more.
Where do things go from here? Let me share with you everything that was revealed this week at Nutanix GTS 2020…
Sorry…I’m under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) – 🤫- but let me tell you this — the roadmap is unbelievable. The concept of One-Click did not originate with marketing. This is real stuff!
Deployments, upgrades, conversions, provisioning, cloning, migrations, automation, isolation, quarantine, security, backups, failover, private cloud, public cloud – all able to be performed at the server or database level. 😲
If you have followed recent news around Tesla, another disrupter in their own industry, you would have read the headlines indicating Tesla is years ahead of the competition.
https://electrek.co/2020/02/17/tesla-teardown-6-years-lead-over-toyota-vw/
The sheer amount of intelligence, innovation, and forward-thinking capacity put into the Nutanix solution(s) is incredible. What is about to be announced in the upcoming weeks, months, and years will continue to shape the evolution of IT infrastructure as we know it.
🗣️🗣️ A big shout out to all of the people I was able to spend some quality time with this week. And, a big thank you for your commitment to what you do. 🙏
I had been using Outlook 2016 for Mac for a pretty long while. Then, one day, out of frustration of not having feature parity with Outlook 2016 on Windows, I spun up Parallels and begun working within my Windows 10 environment for the past year.
Recently, after a long weekend of ‘disconnecting’ and keeping the Windows environment powered down, I decided to give Outlook 2016 for Mac a chance again. Don’t get me wrong, there is still not feature parity between Outlook 2016 on Mac and Windows, but I’ll deal…for now.
On the plus side, the CPUs ran a LOT less hot, and battery life was much improved. Yeah!
Then, I encountered a problem that was a first world problem, but nonetheless, annoying…
While creating a meeting invitation and adding in a Zoom Meeting, using the Zoom Plugin for Outlook, the contents of the Zoom meeting invite would be pasted in the email … at the bottom of the thread … not at the top.
Yup, #FirstWorldProblems
Nonetheless, I was told by support to simply check the box within settings called “Insert Zoom meeting invitation above existing text”
However, my client (the latest version 4.7.55397.0718) was not showing this option?!?
This was easy – see the “Save and do not show again?”
Simply uncheck that option, select Continue, and then go back into settings and voila! the option is there!
Hopefully this helps someone else who gets annoyed by the little things 😃
Zoom! Zoom!
October 10, 2017 – At the Nutanix .NEXT 2017 conference (North America), Nutanix announced a tool that would simplify Virtual Machine (VM) and database migrations to a Nutanix private cloud.
Today, Nutanix has publicly released those tools – known as Nutanix Xtract for VMs & Nutanix for DBs.
Up until today, cross-hypervisor VM migrations were possible via a multi-step approach such as:
Today, Nutanix Xtract for VMs allows for agentless live-migration of Virtual Machines from VMware ESXi to Acropolis AHV – with minimal downtime.
In keeping with the Nutanix release cycle, today is another day of innovation — for you, the customer, at no additional cost.
Translated:
Nutanix Xtract for VMs has the following functionality upon the v1.0 GA release:
So… starting today – you, the customer, can now migrate your Guest OSes supported by AHV from vCenter and ESXi 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5 to Acropolis AOS 5.0.x and 5.1.x.
There are a few Unsupported Features that you should note, but otherwise — in so few words…
Upon final cutover, the source VM is shutdown and the target VM is brought up live on Nutanix AHV.
Nutanix Xtract Software can be downloaded within the Nutanix portal site:
https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/xtract
Stay tuned for a video showing the entire conversion process.
Say goodbye to your #vTax!
