Using an external Identity Provider (IDP) is a great way to further secure your Prism Central deployment. In a previous post, I detailed how to integrate your on-premises ADFS with Prism Central. However what if you have Azure AD and…
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Nutanix AOS 5.11 (STS) and more!
Nutanix have finally taken the wraps off the Acropolis 5.11 Family and boy is it a juicy update! There is a lot to look at in here so lets get to it. The Acropolis 5.11 Family includes new and updated…
Nutanix AOS 5.10.4 (LTS) is now available
Nutanix have released AOS 5.10.4 out into the wild as of the 21st of May 2019. This particular release is more of a bug fix release rather than a feature release so no new features are included in this update….
Xi Frame – End User Compute for the Hybrid Cloud
End User Computing has been a staple for businesses for a long time. With the current shift in infrastructure, where we are moving from purely on-premises Data Centres to more hybrid and even fully cloud-based infrastructure, is End User Computing…
Nutanix Technology Champion 2019 – Second Time Around
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…
Nutanix AHV with Citrix MCS and Citrix Cloud – VMs not starting from Citrix Studio
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. TLDR; Do not delete XDSNAP…
Nutanix AOS 5.9 (STS) is here!
AOS 5.9 (STS) is now available to download from the Nutanix Portal. NOTE: AOS 5.9 is a Short Term Service (STS) branch of AOS. This means it is covered by support for only 6 months. If this is too short…
Prism Central – Configure SAML Authentication using ADFS
The latest version of Prism Central (v5.8) brought 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). For this post…
How To Remove Old Snapshots on Nutanix AHV
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. This can also happen when VMs are being…
Nutanix Beam – Multi-Cloud Optimisation to Reduce Costs & Enhance Security
One of the biggest and most exciting announcements to come out of the annual Nutanix .NEXT conference this year is Nutanix Beam. Beam is a new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering from Nutanix as part of the Nutanix Enterprise…
Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide Updated – v4.1 Now Available
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
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 AOS 5.6
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…
AHV & PVS – Together at Last
Back in 2016 Nutanix released the AHV plugin for Citrix Machine Cretation Services (MCS) which would allow you to use your AHV based Nutanix cluster as the host resources for your Citrix MCS images. This meaned you could harness the…
Nutanix Software Only
Nutanix has been speaking openly about a ‘Software Only’ offering for a while now however no one has been able to divulge any information on what the offering will be, how it’ll work with support/maintenance or what hardware could be…