William Beckett

Nutanix Technology Champion 2019 - Second Time Around

Jan 03, 2019 • 1 min read • 0 Comments

Each year the team at Nutanix release a list of names of people from around the globe who have been chosen to be part of the Nutanix Technology Champions. This group of IT professionals, are from every cloud, application and technology group. Their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and expertise help their ...

Nutanix AHV with Citrix MCS and Citrix Cloud - VMs not starting from Citrix Studio

Oct 05, 2018 • 4 min read • 0 Comments

I found out the hard way that there are somethings that should remain untouched when it comes to Citrix MCS and Nutanix AHV. I'm hoping this post help others who may have come across similar issues. ...

Nutanix AOS 5.9 (STS) is here!

Oct 05, 2018 • 2 min read • 0 Comments

AOS 5.9 (STS) is now available to download from the Nutanix Portal. ...

Prism Central - Configure SAML Authentication using ADFS

Sep 27, 2018 • 5 min read • 0 Comments

The latest version of Prism Central (v5.8) brough a bunch of new features. One of these features is the support for using an external Identity Provider (IDP) instead of or along side LDAP (Active Directory or OpenLDAP). ...

[How to] Remove Old Snapshots on Nutanix AHV

Sep 24, 2018 • 2 min read • 0 Comments

Sometimes when deleting VMs you can forget to check if the VM you are deleting has existing snapshots prior to it being deleted resulting in orphaned snapshots hanging around on the cluster. You can use acli to clean them up. ...

Nutanix Beam - Multi-Cloud Optimisation to Reduce Costs & Enhance Security - Part 1

May 31, 2018 • 7 min read • 0 Comments

Beam is a new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering from Nutanix as part of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS which is designed to help customers optimise and better manage cost and security when it comes to their public clouds. ...

Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide Updated - v4.1 Now Available

May 29, 2018 • 1 min read • 0 Comments

There are new versions of AOS and AHV in the wild and so the AHV Best Practices Guide (BPG) has been updated to cover any new features or enhancements that may have come out since the last BPG was released. ...

Nutanix Era: It's all about Databases (not the span of time)

May 24, 2018 • 2 min read • 0 Comments

At this year's .NEXT conference, Nutanix pulled back the covers on a few new services they have been working on. I'm going detail a few of them here on my blog. First up is Era. An Intro to Nutanix Era Nutanix Era is a new suite of software from Nutanix ...

Nutanix AOS 5.6

May 21, 2018 • 2 min read • 0 Comments

A little over a month ago, Nutanix released a new version of its Acropolis Operating System (AOS) bringing the latest version to 5.6. I thought I would wait until the dust had settled on this release a bit before I jumped into writing about it. I feel like a ...

AHV & PVS - Together at Last

May 21, 2018 • 1 min read • 0 Comments

Nutanix has now released a plugin for Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS)! This plugin will now allow you to use your AHV based Nutanix cluster as the host resources for your PVS vDisks. ...