After reading this excellent blogpost from Andrew Nelson (Distributed Systems Specialist at Nutanix) on Acropolis Image and Cloning Primer for Automation and combining that with this blogpost from Raghu Nandan (Director of Product Management) on Setting up Citrix XA/XD with an Acropolis Hypervisor cluster I figured we were missing one vendor on this list.. Microsoft Windows Server/Client OSs.
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‘Mass’ sysprep your Windows VMs for Nutanix AHV
Category: Citrix, Microsoft, Nutanix, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Acropolis, AHV, Nutanix, Powershell, Sysprep
Unleashing NVIDIA GRID 2.0
NVIDIA just released their GRID 2.0 GPU technology. In earlier articles I already described vGPU and the impact of GPUs in the datacenters. With this new release NVIDIA bumped up the use cases and performance characteristics to drive adoption of GPU within VDI and SBC implementations.
Citrix launches CWC, what’s in it for you?
With the introduction of Citrix Workspace Cloud (CWC) Citrix showed a renewed interest in cloud based services, although cloud can mean a lot of things the introduction and implementation is in line with the thoughts of Nutanix’s scale out model and focus on ease of use and time to market.
Nutanix and Citrix: Citrix App delivery on Nutanix Acropolis
With .Next behind us and all of the announcements have made their impact, we now can take a look at how to extend the Acropolis capabilities to other workloads. One of those obvious workloads is application and desktop virtualization (also referred to as SBC/VDI). We are proud to say that Acropolis and Acropolis Hypervisor were awarded Citrix Ready certification for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.6.
Nutanix PRISM SSL certificate (PoSH script)
Based on my earlier script to import theSSL certificate for vCenter I decided to do the same for the Nutanix PRISM interface, the previous script could be easily reused with some small modifications as I had to add the port number to the URL where the certificate needs to be fetched from.
Upgrading my Nutanix block to NOS 4.1.4
Just
recently Nutanix released Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.1.4, Magnus Andersson (part of the Performance and Solution engineering team just like me) wrote a small blogpost on the enhancements in 4.1.4 here. As my cluster was still on NOS 4.1.3 I finally had a moment to sit down and update my cluster.
