Nutanix – the Energizer Bunny of IT Infrastructure

Posted on 21st August 2014 by Millennia

“Software Defined” has become the epithet of the Nutanix solution, but you will always need hardware and hardware will always fail. Recently we installed a relatively new NX-3460 for a Proof of Concept (POC) with all four nodes showing as up and running in the Prism management wit...

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Nutanix, Dell, VMware – it’s all go in a converged world

Posted on 25th June 2014 by Millennia

First of all an update to my blog from yesterday: I am very grateful for an almost immediate reach out from Dheeraj Pandey, CEO at Nutanix, and a subsequent 20 minute phone call to discuss the concerns I had raised. This only goes to show what a different breed Nutanix is as an organisation from [&h...

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Nutanix and the deal with the Dell-vil – a personal view

Posted on 24th June 2014 by Millennia

First of all kudos to Nutanix for their internal decision to inform the channel prior to the press release, which meant I could make this article timely rather than days after the event. Few vendors consider their channel is anything to do with their internal decision making, and while we may have n...

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DISM Windows Server 2008 R2 Change Edition

Posted on 4th June 2014 by Millennia

This is useful to know when you hit that 32GB limit and don’t want to go to trouble of migrating to a new server. Of course this isn’t an issue now in 2012. Originally posted on Rick’s Tech Gab: Hit a little issue in my lab today, It happens that I went ahead and installed [&hellip...

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A hardware appliance in a “software defined” world

Posted on 3rd June 2014 by Millennia

Article updated June 10th 2014 – scroll to Update section below for updated comments: Software defined seems to be the latest buzz phrase doing the rounds recently; software defined storage, networking, datacentres, hitting the marketing feeds and opinion pieces as terms like Clo...