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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 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

First Impression – Using Nutanix’s HCI and Hypervisor (AHV)

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Humair

What is my first impression of using Nutanix’s HCI and Hypervisor (AHV)? Short answer – very easy to use, even for a first time user, and intuitive design with well thought-out integrations with other Nutanix products; love the one-click feature/service … Continue reading →

Posted in Hyper-converged infrastructure, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Nuatnix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Security, Software Defined Storage (SDS), Storage, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged Acropolis Operating System, AHV, AOS, Calm, Categories, Category, Controller VM, CVM, Disaster Recovery, Flow, Flow Isolation Policy, Flow Micro-segmentation, Flow Microsegmentation, Flow Security Policies, HCI, hyper-converged infrastructure, hypervisor, Karbon, Leap, micro-segmentation, microsegmentation, Networks, Nuatnix One-Click, Nutanix, Nutanix Acropolis Operating System, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Calm, Nutanix Categories, Nutanix Category, Nutanix Controller VM, Nutanix CVM, Nutanix Disaster Recovery, Nutanix Flow, Nutanix Flow Isolation Policy, Nutanix Flow Security Policies, Nutanix HCI platform, Nutanix Hypervisor, Nutanix Karbon, Nutanix Leap, Nutanix Micro-segmentation, Nutanix Microsegmentation, Nutanix Networks, Nutanix Objects, Nutanix Prism, Nutanix SDS, Nutanix Security, Nutanix Software Defined Storage, Nutanix Storage Container, Nutanix Storage Containers, Nutanix Subnets, Nutanix VMs, Nutanix Xi Cloud Services, Objects, Prism, Prism Central, Prism Element, SDS, security, Security Policies, software defined storage, Storage Container, Storage Containers, Subnets, virtual machines, vms, Xi Cloud Services | Leave a comment

New year, new challenges, new learnings @ Nutanix!

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Humair

New year, new challenges, new learnings! It’s been a great start to a new year. Looking forward to a new role and exciting year ahead @ Nutanix! Can’t believe it’s been 3 months already! First new official Nutanix swag above, … Continue reading →

Posted in Hyper-converged infrastructure, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix Tech Summit 2020, Storage, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged Acropolis, AHV, AOS, HCI, hyper-converged, hyper-converged infrastructure, hypervisor, Nutanix, Nutanix Acropolis, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Prism, Nutanix Tech Summit, Nutanix Tech Summit 2020, Prism, virtual machine, VM | Leave a comment

6WIND – From Data Plane Acceleration to Virtual Appliances

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Humair

6WIND is an interesting company I’ve been following for some time now, initially out of curiosity, and then out of more curiosity :-). They first started as a networking software company claiming to solve performance challenges for software defined networks … Continue reading →

Posted in 6WIND, 6WIND, Dell, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Linux, Network Architecture, Networking, Operating Systems, Servers, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged 6WIND, 6WIND packet processing software, 6WIND Turbo IPsec, 6WIND Turbo Router, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator, 6WINDGate, 6WINDGate packet processing software, CPU core, CPU cores, CPU multi-core multi-processor architecture, Data Plane Acceleration, Data Plane Development Kit, Dell, Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell Server, DPDK, Emulex, forwarding throughput, hypervisor, Intel, Intel CPU multi-core multi-processor architecture, Intel Data Plane Development Kit, Intel DPDK, Intel Xeon, Intel Xeon processor, kernel, KVM, L3 forwarding throughput, linux, Linux kernel, Linux network stack, Linux networking stack, Linux Open vSwitch, Linux operating system, Linux OS, Linux OVS switch, Linux user space, Mellanox, multi-core multi-processor architecture, network function virtualization, network packet processing, networking software company, networking stack, NFV, Open Networking Summit, Open vSwitch, Open vSwitch Conference, OVDK, OVS, OVS switch, packet processing, packet processing software, PowerEdge, PowerEdge server, SDN, Separate Control Plane and Data Plane, software defined networking, standard Linux networking stack, TCP/IP stack, throughput, user space, Vincent Jardin, Virtual Accelerator, virtual appliance, virtual networking, virtualization, Xeon, Xeon processor, zero-copy, zero-copy mode | Leave a comment

Network Virtualization with Dell and VMware NSX [Video]

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Humair

Check out my latest Dell Networking video on Network Virtualization with Dell and VMware NSX. You can view it on the Dell VMware wiki site, the Dell YouTube channel, or see the video embedded below via direct link.

Posted in Dell, Dell EqualLogic, Dell Force10, iSCSI, Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Protocols, Storage, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware | Tagged DCB, DCB capable storage, Dell, Dell EqualLogic, Dell EqualLogic DCB capable storage, Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage, Dell EqualLogic PS 6110XS, Dell EqualLogic PS6110XS, Dell EqualLogic storage, Dell Force10, Dell MXL, Dell PowerEdge M1000e, Dell PowerEdge M620, Dell PowerEdge R620, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell S4810, Dell S6000, Dell VMware NSX, distributed firewall, distributed routing, distributed switching, DLR, EqualLogic, EqualLogic DCB capable storage, EqualLogic iSCSI storage, EqualLogic PS6110XS, ESXi, ESXi 5.5, ESXi hypervisor, firewall, Force10, Force10 Networks, hypervisor, iSCSI, iSCSI storage, L2 Bridge, L2 Gateway, Logical Network, Logical Networks, MXL, MXL Blade Switch, Network Virtualization, Network Virtualization with Dell Infrastructure and VMware NSX Reference Architecture, NSX, NSX Controller Cluster, NSX Distributed Logical Router, NSX DLR, NSX L2 Gateway, NSX Manager, NSX Perimeter Edge, NSX Services Edge, OSPF, S4810, S6000, SDN, software defined networking, vCenter, vCenter Virtual Appliance, VDS, virtual distributed switch, Virtual Network Identifier, virtualization, vmware, VMware ESXi, VMware NSX, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere, VMware vSphere 5.5, VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5, VMware vSphere vCenter, VMware vSphere vCenter Virtual Appliance, VNI, vSphere, vSphere 5.5, vSphere vCenter, vSphere vCenter Virtual Appliance, VXLAN | Leave a comment

The Commoditization of the Hypervisor

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Humair

It’s amazing; since the introduction of hardware based virtualization made possible with processor technology such as the Intel-VT and AMD-V (see prior blog The Power of Virtualization – a competitive edge), everyone and their mother is coming out with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged AMD-V, Citrix, commodity, hypervisor, Intel VT, Live Migration, live storage migration, Microsoft, Oracle, oVirt, paravirtualization, Red Hat, Storage VMotion, virtualization, vMotion, vmware, Xen, XenServer | Leave a comment

Intel VT FlexMigration and AMD-V Extended Migration – Enabling Dynamic, Agile Data Centers

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Humair

Server virtualization/consolidation is becoming a norm and data centers and enterprises are now looking towards the horizon at how to bring dynamic, agile, and flexible capabilities to their IT infrastructure. What I will focus on here is one specific technology … Continue reading →

Posted in AMD, Intel, Networking, Processors/CPUs, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware | Tagged AMD, AMD CPUs, AMD-V, AMD‐V Extended Migration, CPU, CPUs, Data Centers, Enhanced VMotion Compatibility, ESX, ESX 3.5, ESX 3.5 Update 2, ESXi, EVC, hypervisor, Intel, Intel CPUs, Intel VT, Intel VT FlexMigration, Live Migration, virtual machine, virtual machines, VM, vms, vmware, VMware Enhanced VMotion Compatibility, VMWare ESX, VMware ESX 3.5, VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2, VMware ESXi, vmware vmotion | Leave a comment

pNIC, vNIC, and vmNIC Confusion

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Humair

I have been using both remote desktop and vSphere Client quite often lately. Yesterday, I had a remote desktop session with a Windows Server 2003 physical server and also had vSphere Client (connected to an ESXi server) open with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Networking, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged ESXi, ESXi Server, hypervisor, physical NIC, pNIC, remote connection, Remote Desktop, virtual machine, virtual NIC, virtualization, VM, vmNIC, vmware, vNIC, vSphere Client | 2 Comments