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Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking – Part 2
Part 1 – Host Networking – Bonds Part 2 – Host Networking – Load Balancing (You Are Here!) Part 3 – AHV VLANs Part 4 – User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking In our last post we explored bridges and bonds with AHV and Open vSwitch. Today on the Nutanix .NEXT Community Blog I’m covering load balancing within…
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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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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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Shaping up with FitBit
Breaking Point I used to say “I’d never run unless someone was chasing me.” Well I’ve finally reached that point. I woke up one morning this past winter and realized I was going to be woefully unprepared for an upcoming snowboarding trip. My belly would throw off my balance, causing me to bounce and roll down…
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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…