#acropolis hypervisor

Nutanix Releases Latest AHV Version X.337: Key Highlights

Nutanix has unveiled the latest update for its Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV), version X.337. This release brings important improvements and new features aimed at enhancing the overall performance, security, and functionality of the platform.

Key Features of AHV Version X.337:

Improved Performance: Optimizations in networking and storage efficiency.

Security Enhancements: Advanced security protocols to ensure better data protection.

Increased Scalability: Expanded support for larger clusters and more VMs.

Bug Fixes: Resolving known issues from previous versions, ensuring smoother operations.

New Features: Additional functionality to enhance user experience and streamline operations.

For further details, refer to the full release notes here: Nutanix AHV X.337 Release Highlights.

What is the Difference Between Nutanix Acropolis AOS vs. Acropolis AHV?

Understanding the distinction between Nutanix Acropolis AOS and Acropolis AHV is key for businesses looking to optimize their hyper-converged infrastructure. This guide dives into the core differences, helping you choose the best solution for your virtualization and IT management needs.

Key Highlights:

Overview of Nutanix Acropolis AOS vs. Acropolis AHV

Key differences in features, scalability, and performance

How Acropolis AOS works as a hyper-converged solution vs. AHV as the hypervisor

Benefits and use cases for choosing AOS over AHV or vice versa

Best practices for integrating both into your Nutanix environment

Read the full guide here: hyperhci.com

Nutanix Acropolis AHV Core Architecture Explained

The Nutanix Acropolis AHV is a key component of Nutanix's hyper-converged infrastructure, delivering seamless virtualization capabilities. This guide dives into the core architecture of AHV, its components, and how they work together to provide efficient and scalable virtualization.

Key Highlights:

Overview of Nutanix Acropolis AHV architecture

Core components of AHV: Hypervisor, CVM, and more

How AHV integrates with Nutanix's storage and compute resources

Benefits of using AHV in Nutanix environments

How to optimize AHV for performance and scalability

Read the full guide here: hyperhci.com

[Nutanix] Networking in AHV for vSphere administrators

Introduction

Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) is growing in features and adoption. What is most impressive is the way Nutanix is leveraging KVM (Open Source) making it very easy to use. Networking in AHV is one of the brilliant examples. In this post, I would like to throw some thoughts on Host Networking and VM Networking. Open vSwitch (OVS) is the core of the Networking in AHV. OVS functions as a…

Nutanix acropolis block services–part03

In this post (Part:03) I’m covering how to configure Nutanix Acropolis Block Services (ABS). Before I start I would like to recap what was covered in Part01 and Part02.

In Part01, I covered the basics of ABS, notably new terminology, and its benefits over the previously introduced iSCSI services. I also took the opportunity to discuss in detail the use cases, especially Oracle database support.

I…

Two Weeks in 2017

Two weeks have passed like a flash, and I could sense things are flooding be information or for that matter work. I want to blog about Nutanix. But no time so far. I finished two posts on Nutanix Block Service here and here. I have yet to complete 3rd part. I’m hoping to finish it before next week. As I’m on Nutanix, I’m extremely glad to be considered as Nutanix Technology Champion 2017

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NUTANIX ACROPOLIS BLOCK SERVICES – PART02

I hope you had a chance to review Acropolis Block Services Introduction covered in Part-01 of this series. If not, please consider it as it is the foundation of Part-02 i.e. this post. In this post, I will explain pre-requisites, Terminology, and some considerations to keep in mind.

Prerequisites

Ports 3260 and 3205 are opened between iSCSI Initiator and iSCSI Target

IP Address for iSCSI…

Nutanix Acropolis Block Services – PART01

First and Foremost, Acropolis Block Services (ABS) is not new, in fact, it was always there in the form of iSCSI based block storage presented for WSFC since AOS 4.5 release. As a matter of fact, the newly released Acropolis Block Services (ABS) has more manageability and better performance. As a result, it is recommended by Nutanix to use Acropolis Block Service going forward. If you are using…