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Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Hibernate Hosts to Lower Cloud Spend

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Humair

I’ve written a few prior posts on Nutanix Clusters on AWS: Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Platform, Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Getting Started and on Nutanix Beam: Optimize Cost Across Public and Private Clouds with … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Business, Hyper-converged infrastructure, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Software Defined Storage (SDS), Storage, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged AHV, AHV hypervisor, Amazon Web Services, AOS, Audit Trail, AWS, AWS EC2 bare metal hosts, AWS Tags, Azure, Beam, cloud, cloud bursting, cloud migration, cloud strategy, Cluster Hibernate, Cluster UUID, Clusters, Clusters portal, Cost Allocation Tags, DA, Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Recovery, DR, EC2, EC2 bare metal hosts, Flow, HCI, Hibernate, hybrid cloud, hybrid cloud strategy, hypervisor, Microsoft Azure, Move, Multicloud, multicloud cloud strategy, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix AHV hypervisor, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Beam, Nutanix Cloud, Nutanix Cluster Hibernate, Nutanix Cluster on AWS Hibernate, Nutanix Clusters, Nutanix Clusters Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Nutanix Clusters on AWS Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS portal, Nutanix Flow, Nutanix HCI, Nutanix Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix Move, Nutanix multicloud, Nutanix Prism, Prism, Resume, Tags, UUID, VDI | Leave a comment

Nutanix Beam – Chargeback and Tracking Spend Across Clouds

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Humair

My prior post on Nutanix Beam, Optimize Cost Across Public and Private Clouds with Nutanix Beam, provided a brief intro and described some of the basic functionality of Beam and how it can be used to define a cost control … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, AWS, AWS, Business, Hyper-converged infrastructure, Microsoft, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged AWS, Azure, Beam, business unit, chargeback, cloud, Cloud Cost Control, cloud cost governance, Cloud Cost Management, cloud cost optimization, Cloud Management, cloud optimization, cost, cost analytics, cost center, Cost Governance, cost optimization, hybrid cloud, hybrid-cloud visibility, Multi-cloud, Multicloud, Multicloud Cost Governance, multicloud visibility, Nutanix, Nutanix Beam, Nutanix Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix Xi Beam, on-prem, onprem, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Software as a service, visibility, Xi, Xi Beam | Leave a comment

Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Getting Started

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Humair

Nutanix Clusters on AWS is available globally across 20 geographic regions and 61 availability zones. See the Nutanix Clusters website for the most up-to-date information. In my prior post, I discussed the availability of Nutanix Clusters on AWS, use cases, … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Hyper-converged infrastructure, Network Architecture, Networking, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Software Defined Storage (SDS), Storage, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged AHV, AHV hypervisor, Amazon Web Services, AOS, AWS, AWS EC2 bare metal hosts, AWS IAM, AWS IAM role, Azure, Billing Widget, cloud, cloud bursting, cloud migration, cloud strategy, CloudFormation, CloudFormation Template, Clusters, Clusters portal, DA, Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Recovery, DR, EC2, EC2 bare metal hosts, Flow, HCI, hybrid cloud, hybrid cloud strategy, hypervisor, IAM role, Microsoft Azure, Move, Multicloud, multicloud cloud strategy, MyNutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix AHV hypervisor, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Cloud, Nutanix CloudFormation template, Nutanix Clusters, Nutanix Clusters Billing, Nutanix Clusters Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Nutanix Clusters on AWS Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS Getting Started, Nutanix Clusters on AWS portal, Nutanix Flow, Nutanix HCI, Nutanix Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix Move, Nutanix multicloud, Nutanix Prism, Prism, VDI | Leave a comment

Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Platform

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Humair

Starting from last Tuesday, August 11th, 2020, Nutanix Clusters, similar to what many customers have in on-prem data centers, can now be deployed on the AWS Cloud globally – 20 regions, 61 availability zones and counting. Super cool. In this … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Hyper-converged infrastructure, Network Architecture, Networking, Nuatnix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Security, Software Defined Storage (SDS), Storage, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged AHV, AHV hypervisor, Amazon Web Services, AOS, AWS, AWS EC2 bare metal hosts, Azure, cloud, cloud bursting, cloud migration, cloud strategy, Clusters, Clusters portal, DA, Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Recovery, DR, EC2, EC2 bare metal hosts, Flow, HCI, hybrid cloud, hybrid cloud strategy, hypervisor, Microsoft Azure, Move, Multicloud, multicloud cloud strategy, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix AHV hypervisor, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Cloud, Nutanix Clusters, Nutanix Clusters Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Nutanix Clusters on AWS Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS portal, Nutanix Flow, Nutanix HCI, Nutanix Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix Move, Nutanix multicloud, Nutanix Prism, Prism, VDI | Leave a comment

Optimize Cost Across Public and Private Clouds with Nutanix Beam

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Humair

Nutanix Beam is a software as a service (SaaS) solution that provides cost spend visibility and optimization across multicloud environments and on-prem. Discussing with customers and playing around with Nutanix Beam for the past several weeks, I’ve been pretty impressed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Business, Hyper-converged infrastructure, Microsoft, Nutanix, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged AWS, AWS Reserved Instances, AWS Savings Plans, Azure, Beam, cloud, Cloud Cost Control, cloud cost governance, Cloud Cost Management, cloud cost optimization, Cloud Management, cloud optimization, Clusters, cost, Cost Governance, cost optimization, hybrid cloud, hybrid-cloud visibility, Multi-cloud, Multicloud, Multicloud Cost Governance, multicloud visibility, Nutanix, Nutanix Beam, Nutanix Cluster, Nutanix Clusters, Nutanix Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix Xi Beam, on-prem, onprem, private cloud, public cloud, Reserved Instances, RI, SaaS, Savings Plans, Software as a service, visibility, Xi, Xi Beam | Leave a comment

VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX Networking and Security eBook

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Humair

Check out my latest book co-authored with my colleagues Gilles Chekroun and Nico Vibert on VMware NSX networking and security in VMware Cloud on AWS. Thank you Tom Gillis, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Networking and Security Business Unit for writing … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, AWS, Business, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Security, Tech Events, Technology, Technology, VMware, VMware, VMworld 2019 | Tagged ahmed, Amazon Web Services, AWS, cloud, cloud networking, cloud security, ebook, humair, Humair Ahmed, hybrid cloud, networking, NSX, NSX Cloud, NSX ebook, NSX-T, NSX-T ebook, security, VMC, vmware, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS ebook | 1 Comment

VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Humair

I also published this blog post about VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog on April 4, 2018. The full blog post is provided … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, AWS, Labs, Network Architecture, Networking, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware | Tagged AWS, AWS backbone, AWS Direct Connect, AWS DX router, AWS EC2, AWS Letter of Authorization, AWS LOR, AWS Network Services, AWS RDS, AWS Region, AWS S3, AWS VGW, AWS Virtual Private Gateway, AWS VPC, BGP, CGW, cloud, Cold Migration, demo, Direct Connect, Direct Connect Deployment, Direct Connect Private VIF, Direct Connect Public VIF, DX router, EC2, ESX Management, HLM, hybrid cloud, Hybrid Link Mode, Internet, IPSEC VPN, L2VPN, L2VPN client, Letter of Authorization, Live Migration, LOR, MGW, migration, network file copy, Network Virtualization, NFC, NSX, NSX IPSEC VPN, NSX L2VPN, NSX L2VPN client, NSX logical network, NSX logical switch, NSX Networking, on-prem, Private VIF, Private Virtual Interface, Public VIF, Public Virtual Interface, RDS, S3, SDDC, SDN, vCenter, VGW, virtual machine, virtualization, VM, VM migration, VMC, vMotion, vMotion to the Cloud, vmware, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS and Direct Connect Deployment, VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, VMware Cloud on AWS VPC, VMware SDDC, vPC, VPC CIDR, VPN | 1 Comment

VMware Cloud on AWS – SDDCs Across Different AWS Regions

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Humair

In my prior blog post, I discussed how with VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS) customers get the best of both worlds for their move to a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) – the leading compute, storage, and network … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, AWS, AWS, Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Security, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware | Tagged Amazon Web Services, AWS, AWS Region, AWS Regions, CGW, CGW firewall rules, CGW IPSEC VPN, CGW IPSEC VPN configuration, Compute Gateway, hybrid cloud, IPSEC VPN, IPSEC VPN configuration, N. Virginia, NSX, NSX Logical Networks, Oregon, SDDC, Software Defined Data Center, US East, US East (N. Virginia), US West, US West (Oregon), vCenter, VMC CGW, VMC Compute Gateway, VMC on AWS, VMC SDDCs, VMC security policies, VMware Cloud on AWS, VSAN, vSphere | 1 Comment

VMware SDDC with NSX Expands to AWS

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Humair

VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies like vSphere ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and NSX have been leveraged by thousands of customers globally to build reliable, flexible, agile, and highly available data center environments running thousands of workloads. I’ve also discussed … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, AWS, AWS, AWS, Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Security, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware | Tagged 1:Many NAT, Amazon Web Services, AWS, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Networking, CGW, CGW Gateway, CGW IPSEC VPN, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cold Migration, Compute Gateway, Direct Connect, Disaster Recovery, Disaterous Recovery as a Service, Distributed Logical Router, DLR, DR, DRaaS, Edge, firewall, HLM, HumairAhmed.com, hybrid cloud, Hybrid Link Mode, IBM, iLand, IPSEC, IPSEC VPN, L2VPN, Management Gateway, MGW, MGW Gateway, MGW IPSEC VPN, nat, NSX, NSX DLR, NSX Edge, NSX IPSEC, NSX IPSEC VPN, NSX L2VPN, Public IP, SDDC, Sphere ESXi, US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), vCenter, VM Cold Migration, VMC, VMC ESXi Host, VMC network, VMC on AWS, vMotion, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Provider, VMware NSX, VMware SDDC, VMware Software Defined Data Center, VPN, VSAN, vSphere ESXi hypervisor, zero-trust | Leave a comment

Disaster Recovery with VMware NSX-V and Zerto

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Humair

In a few prior blogs I posted on this site and on the VMware Network Virtualization blog site, I described and demoed how VMware NSX and SRM with vSphere Replication combined provide for an enhanced disaster recovery (DR) solution. SRM … Continue reading →

Posted in EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Labs, Network Architecture, Networking, Tech Events, Technology, VMware, VMworld 2017 | Tagged Cross-VC NSX, Cross-vCenter NSX, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Solutions with NSX, DR, DRaaS, EMC, EMC EHC, EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Humair Ahmed, hybrid cloud, multi-site, Multisite, NET1188BU, NSX, NSX Zerto, NSX-V, NSX-V Zerto, Site Recovery Manager, SRM, vmware, VMware NSX, VMware NSX-V, VMworld 2017, Zerto, Zerto Virtual Manager, Zerto Virtual Replication Appliance, Zerto VRA | Leave a comment

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