Category: Technology
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Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking – Part 1
Part 1 – Host Networking – Bonds (You Are Here!) Part 2 – Host Networking – Load Balancing Part 3 – AHV VLANs Part 4 – User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking I’m happy to announce the release of the first Light Board Videos I recorded with the Nutanix nu.school education team. These videos were a…
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Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide
In my last blog post I talked about networking with Open vSwitch in the Nutanix hypervisor, AHV. Today I’m happy to announce the continuation of that initial post – the Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide. Nutanix introduced the concept of AHV, based on the open source Linux KVM hypervisor. A new Nutanix node comes installed with AHV by…
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Networking Exploration in Nutanix AHV
Nutanix recently released the AHV hypervisor, which means I get a new piece of technology to learn! Before I started this blog post I had no idea how Open vSwitch worked or what KVM and QEMU were all about. Since I come from a networking background originally, I drilled down into the Open vSwitch and…
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Nutanix .NEXT Announcement – Acropolis and KVM
I’m happy to see that Nutanix has officially announced their upcoming strategic direction at the .NEXT conference. Using Nutanix Acropolis, KVM, and Prism – data center administrators now have the ability to truly make infrastructure invisible. What Is It? To read more about the specific details take a look at Andre Leibovici’s post here, then come back.…
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Vienna Avaya Technology Forum
Part of my role on the Nutanix Performance and Solutions team is to “evangelize” the technology and tell the world about all the great work we’re doing writing documents, testing products and solutions, and assisting with customer engagements. The physical manifestation of that is me sitting in an airport typing up this blog post, on…
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Survivable UC – Avaya Aura and Nutanix Data Protection
I wanted to share a bit of cool “value add” today, as my sales and marketing guys would call it. This is just one of the things for Avaya Aura and UC in general that a Nutanix deployment can bring to the table. Nutanix has the concept of Protection Domains and Metro Availability that have been…
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Virtualized Avaya Aura on Nutanix – In Progress
The Avaya Technology Forum in Orlando was a great success! Thanks to everyone who attended and showed interest in Nutanix by stopping at the booth. I met a lot of interested potential customers and partners and was also able to learn more about what people are virtualizing these days. There is nothing quite like asking…
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Nutanix and The 2015 Avaya Technology Forum
I’m at the 2015 Avaya Technology Forum with Nutanix to talk about Avaya Unified Communications on the Nutanix platform. Stop by the Nutanix and CRI booth to see the Nutanix gear in action. Nutanix 3460 and 1450 nodes will be powering all the demos you see for Avaya Aura and other applications! I’ve been testing…
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Nutanix and UC – Part 4: VM Placement and System Sizing
In the last blog post I talked about sizing individual VMs. Today we’ll look at placing UC VMs onto a Nutanix node (an ESXi host) and coming up with overall system sizing. First I’d like to announce the publication of my document for Virtualizing Cisco UC on Nutanix. Readers of the blog will recognize the content…
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CYB3RCRIM3 Reading
Call me crazy, but I really love reading legal analysis at CYB3RCRIM3. I discovered the site via an OPML file passed to me by a friend in the security industry. Thanks Devon! I can see how the walls of text might not be appealing, but the material is great. Legal writing is just so different; almost formulaic…