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Nutanix 5.0 Features Overview (Beyond Marketing) - Part 4

Sat, 10 Dec 2016 17:18:34 +0000

This is a 4 part blog series.

Nutanix 4.6 Features Overview – Part 2 (Beyond Marketing)

Sun, 21 Feb 2016 08:02:10 +0000

This is the second part of the series. The first part can be found here and contains the overview for the following new features:

Native File Services
Performance Improvements
Volume Groups in PRISM
Self Service Restore (SSR)
1-Click Upgrades of Foundation, BIOS, BMC
Metro Availability Non-Disruptive vMotion and Site Migrations
Cross Hypervisor Disaster Recovery
Project Dial: In-Place Hypervisor Conversion
OpenStack Integration
Citrix Power Management Plugin
AHV Guest Customization
AHV VLAN Trunking
Prism Actionable Capacity Forecasting
Prism Customizable Dashboards
Prism Entity Explorer

Nutanix 4.6 Features Overview - Part 1 (Beyond Marketing)

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:00:21 +0000

Update: Part two of the series can be found here.

Only four months after releasing Nutanix Based Software 4.5 (read Prism Central and NOS 4.5, NCC 2.1, Foundation 3.0 and MORE Tech Preview Features – What’s New!), a major release with multiple new features and improvements, Nutanix is once again pushing out a major release with tons of new features and huge performance improvements (here Official Press Release).

What are the VDI options for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor?

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:17:19 +0000

The majority of Nutanix customers running VDI on Nutanix today are using vSphere as hypervisor. However, there is an increasing demand for Nutanix Acropolis supported VDI solutions. Customers want to run VDI on Acropolis, eliminating hypervisor license costs, therefore reducing the total cost per desktop. Cost per desktop has been one of the factors in VDI adoption leading to many ROI discussions; furthermore, vSphere is overkill for some VDI deployments.

Citrix XenDesktop & XenApp supported on Nutanix Acropolis

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:50:35 +0000

It gives me special pleasure to talk about this announcement because this is one of the projects I have been working on for a while. With this announcement today Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp customers will be supported on the Acropolis hypervisor (AHV).

How to Enable Nutanix Acropolis HA [Video]

Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:02:59 +0000

By now you are probably aware that Nutanix released its own hypervisor called Nutanix Acropolis, but in case you missed the news check The New Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) & Acropolis Hypervisor. Acropolis comes with many of the features you would expect from an enterprise ready product; including VM Management (VM Operations, Resource Scheduling, Live Migration, Snapshots and Clones, High Availability, IP Management, Analytics, Remote Console) and Host Management (Host Profiles, Virtual Networking, Non-Disruptive Upgrades).