CPS Standard on Nutanix Released

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Fun and crazy days here at Nutanix. I’ve busy been fielding a lot of calls around our new offering, CPS Standard on Nutanix. Now if you don’t know what CPS is, it stands for Cloud Platform System.

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Microsoft Exchange Best Practices on Nutanix

To continue on my last blog post on Exchange...

As I mentioned previously, I support SE’s from all over the world. And again today, I got asked what are the best practices for running Exchange on Nutanix. Funny enough, this question comes in quite often.  Well, I am going to help resolve that. There’s a lot of great info out there, especially from my friend Josh Odgers, which has been leading the charge on this for a long time.  Some of his posts can be controversial, but the truth is always there.  He’s getting a point across.

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Microsoft Exchange Documentor 1.0 – Planning Tool

Microsoft Exchange Documentor 1.0 - Planning Tool
Have you had a need to document your Exchange environment?  Do you need a tool to help you plan your upgrade of Exchange?  Is your documentation current for compliance purposes?

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Nutanix App for Splunk – Just Released

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Nutanix App for Splunk

A Video Walkthrough on installation, configuration and demo of the Nutanix App for Splunk.  Also, included is demo of Splunk Mobile running the Nutanix App versys Safari running Prism. To learn more about Splunk, and details on this app, check out Andre’s Leibovici @andreleibovici blog post.  Happy Splunking 🙂

Until next time, Rob…

Nutanix NOS 4.6 Released….

On February 16, 2016, Nutanix announced the Acropolis NOS 4.6 release and last week was available for download. Along with many enhancements, I wanted to highlight several items, including some tech preview features.

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Understanding Windows Azure Pack – Reconfigure portal names, ports and deploy certificates – Part 6

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Happy New Year Everyone!!!  I know Azure Stack is just around the corner, but I still get lots of questions around configuring WAP and portals. So to follow-up my Windows Azure Pack (WAP) series, I am going to talk about reconfiguring server names and ports as well as assigning trusted certificates to my WAP Portals.

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A Tale of Two DAGs – Deploying Exchange 2013 DAG Environment on Nutanix

As always, I try to blog on questions I get from the field and recently, I helped some colleagues and customers build a DAG on Nutanix 2 times last week ;).  The process is pretty straightforward, but there are some best practices that everyone should follow to ensure a healthy DAG environment.

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Microsoft SQL Server High Availability Options on Nutanix

To give credit, this content was taken from my buddy Mike McGhem’s blog and I added some more color to it, but his content is right on.

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