By Harshit Agarwal and Samuel Gaver Introduction Nutanix is a hyperconverged platform, and all its services (including storage services) run on a special virtual machine (VM) called the controller VM (CVM). This CVM currently runs the CentOS Linux distribution with kernel version 3.10. Unfortunately, this kernel version is quite old and poses a few challenges, …
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