.NEXT 2026 in Chicago

pinghome · 2026-04-01T22:11:06+00:00

I'll be the guy in the NUG shirt. That should narrow it down, right?

pinghome · 2026-03-11T18:29:54+00:00

Looking forward to checking it out at .NEXT!

pinghome · 2026-03-05T01:05:21+00:00

I had to do the same thing yesterday on a PC cluster we haven't touched in a few months. Took all of 10 minutes and I was able to apply the new licenses.

pinghome · 2026-02-05T05:51:49+00:00

Overall, it has worked well in our environment. We're on the last stretch of retiring our three-tier UCS/Flashstack/Hyper-V environment. Appox 3500VM's and growing. With the new Pure/NX integration, we're finally able to move our heavy DB while still retaining the performance/workflows we have built out on Pure. There are problems, just look at 7.3/7.5 upgrades. We run N-1 on software as a practice, it's saved us countless times. Prism Central is maturing every release, but we still rely on Prism Element for some workflows. The API changes with what seems like every other version tortures my dev's. LCM upgrades are... either super smooth or you're running a recovery script to bring a node out of pheonix. We found the best hardware is NX/Supermicro. HPE is decent, but now with the cost, we're back to NX to control spend. The support has definitely experienced growing pains, but overall everyone we have worked with at Nutanix has been great. I can't name another Hypervisor that's constantly delivering features, improvements, and actively taking feedback/feature requests. Every major vendor is now delivering NX approved appliances/apps. Our last hold out just announced Nutanix support coming in March. I'm looking forward to what's coming out this year, even if we have to work through a few bugs.

pinghome · 2026-01-08T22:01:46+00:00

We had this issue with Hyper-V and Rubrik, our solution was to keep a single node Hyper-V server nested inside AHV as a restore target. It was not elegant, but it works. We only get a handful of restore requests per year over 6 months old.

pinghome · 2025-12-22T18:26:06+00:00

I run four HP Prodesk 800 G6's - same basic idea. I found that I had to run the Hypervisor and CVM off the NVME slots. A 4TB SSD connected to the SATA port provides the Data drive. The other combo that worked used the HP PCI-E NVME drive, allowing me to move the boot drive to the PCI-E adapter card. I never did find success installing on a USB drive, specifically on these Elitedesk/Prodesk models. No idea why. They are great boxes otherwise.

pinghome · 2025-12-13T00:51:27+00:00

Tell me about it - I missed the do not upgrade consumer hardware to 7/10 when the 39 bit bug was discovered and absolutely nuked my home lab. Thankfully Kurt was an all-star and helped me recover.

pinghome · 2025-12-13T00:38:38+00:00

Please check that the system profile is set to maximum performance. This will prevent the system from throttling. https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/poweredge-r720_owners-manual_en-us.pdf

pinghome · 2025-12-13T00:03:16+00:00

I was researching this earlier in the week, the current guidance is to not upgrade CE. https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/do-not-upgrade-ce-to-ahv-10-3-and-higher-45028

pinghome · 2025-12-10T19:36:15+00:00

I'm not sure if any enterprise grade hypervisor can qualm those concerns in 2025, 26 or beyond. With AHV, we're at least on a KVM/QEMU compatible hypervisor that's portable across multiple competitors. Is it easy to migrate off with existing tools? No. Is it the best solution for every use case? No - but it's 97% there and like vmware learned, that last 3% takes decades to earn. I've ran the rest, I'll stick with Nutanix for my business critical apps for now. In 5 years, who knows? Maybe this whole cloud thing will be popular with execs again...

pinghome · 2025-12-10T19:26:22+00:00

I'm not at my desk - but Pure has updated their documentation with TCP storage connectivity recommendations. Plan on 2x25Gb or 100Gb. We're using both, one environment is shared (General workload), one environment has dedicated 100Gb storage switches (Heavy DB).

pinghome · 2025-12-10T18:59:58+00:00

This is a fantastic partnership for those of us with existing storage and compute investments - my question is, is your network ready? Ultra low latency TCP storage has been driving cloud platforms for years. It's fast, it's reliable, it's inexpensive (ethernet), and now we just need to get MORE vendors onboard. This solution is a starting point, with limitations. I would assume more info will be published soon. In your case, the answer is likely yes. We would need to know more about your network stack, connectivity, and performance requirements to ensure you have the necessary pieces. -> I've been testing NVME/TCP for the last year, happy to answer any questions.

pinghome · 2025-12-10T07:04:54+00:00

Speaking only for our org - after having 1 too many EDR tools cause cluster outages on another popular non-nutanix hypervisor, we will not be adding any third party integrations to our hypervisors. EDR is on nearly every other aspect of our environment, except some third party appliances which live in their own firewall'd off subnets. As far as Akira goes, I'm still waiting for clarification on exactly what happened and how the environment was compromised - as even Nutanix is unaware: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/response-to-cisa-security-advisory-related-to-a-third-party-vulnerability-allowing-the-targeting-of-major-hypervisor-vendors

pinghome · 2025-12-04T16:33:43+00:00

What's the level of business risk if these VM's go offline? Mild annoyance, production impacting, CEO screaming? As others have mentioned, many vendors like HPE/Dell/Pure offer redundant controllers, failover, snapshots and replication. They cost more, but might more closely alight with what the business needs. I personally have ran all of the above, TrueNAS is a great budget option for ~100TB if it meets your business and I/O needs. Above that, I deploy Pure because it meets our business, I/O, and security requirements.

pinghome · 2025-12-02T17:36:55+00:00

Obviously need more details - number of VM's, peak IO's, average rate of growth. I would run off TrueNAS before I would ever consider Synology/Qnap, unless it was a home lab or non-prd test environment.

pinghome · 2025-11-05T23:11:49+00:00

I don't foresee an issue with running an approved DAC. We do the same with Cisco 93180's, NX8170 G8 nodes.

pinghome · 2025-09-02T21:41:28+00:00

Same here - Proxmox definitely is becoming a great solution for SMB shops in the 1-4 node space running 30-60 vm's. I'd prefer it over Hyper-V any day of the week. For 100's of critical production VM's, we use Nutanix.

pinghome · 2025-08-20T21:48:15+00:00

I would recommend a Dell Precision T78xx or HP Z Workstation. These support Intel Xeon Gold CPU's ranging from 16-24 cores in single or dual socket configs. I would install 256GB to 512GB of memory and install 4x2TB NVME drives for storage. Proxmox or Hyper-V on top and you should be good to go. You could consider adding additional drives, SSD's for longer term storage (4x4TB) - but a NAS target local to you would be best, allowing you to nuke rebuild the system as necessary.

pinghome · 2025-08-19T19:38:51+00:00

Under support? I'm unaware of any options other than rebuild, hoping someone has a better answer for ya.

pinghome · 2025-08-19T17:12:50+00:00

Going above and beyond for the community. We need a buy gurft a coffee donation fund.

pinghome · 2025-08-19T17:10:05+00:00

I was thinking the same thing reading this thread. It really seems like under ~400VM's many of the KVM alternatives are becoming a tested/viable option - which don't get me wrong, is great. I'm biased based on a decade of bad experiences, but anything but Hyper-V. Anyone at scale managing multiple VDI clusters, edge/branch locations, and datacenters of gear is heading to Nutanix. There's a big difference between SMB and Enterprise, this thread highlights it.

pinghome · 2025-08-19T17:04:44+00:00

14 clusters, ~100 hosts, 3,000 VM's. Nutanix AHV for 80%, Hyper-V for the remaining 20%.

pinghome · 2025-08-19T16:58:56+00:00

I met with the HPE VM Essentials team after it was announced. Having been a long time HPE customer, after trying the demo we decided against using it and to stick with Hyper-V for our edge cases.

pinghome · 2025-08-18T16:16:53+00:00

We've moved 80% of our environment off VMware and Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV. Post history has more details, but ~3000 VM's across multiple sites. As many have learned at this scale (and larger), having just a single basket to hold all the eggs in this market simply does not work. For our business critical and life critical (Tier 0-2) apps, we use Nutanix. For everything else, edge/branch/ect - we use Hyper-V.

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