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Cisco UC on Nutanix Webinar
I recently presented a webinar for Cisco UC on Nutanix to highlight exactly how Nutanix could save time and money, while adding features and flexibility, on your next deployment. Take a look at the live webinar here:
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Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking – Part 3
Part 1 – Host Networking – Bonds Part 2 – Host Networking – Load Balancing Part 3 – AHV VLANs (You are here!) Part 4 – User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking For part 3 in our series I want to tackle VLANs in AHV. I don’t actually have a light board video for this…
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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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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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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…