When building out a net new Nutanix cluster, foundation does the majority of the work for you imaging the nodes, creating a cluster and populating the majority of configurations, however I wrote this (very basic) script to assist a customer with their post build configuration to ensure all their builds were standardised. Simply populate the variables and execute from a CVM. Continue reading
Nutanix customers love the fact we give them their weekends back by having 1-click upgrades for the Acropolis operating system, BIOS, BMC, Firmware and the Hypervisor. When speaking to some customers still go through a multi-step process to include:
Number two in the video series……
One of the major appeals of Nutanix is pay as you grow economics. Start small and grow large, no forklift upgrades and having to forecast what your growth will be over the next ‘N’ years. Once you have your initial three node cluster, you can expand out your cluster at any time simply and non disruptively via Prism, you can even mix model types too to run different workloads in the same cluster. Continue reading