Generating a Self-Signed SAN Certificate to use Red Hat OpenShift in Nutanix Marketplace

Introduction Suppose you have tried deploying the Red Hat OpenShift® software using the new Nutanix® Marketplace released with the Nutanix Prism Central™ (PC) 2023.1.0.1 release, and PC is using the default self-signed SSL certificate. In that case, you likely got an error message saying your PC SSL certificate didn’t seem valid. The marketplace uses the …

Run LLM Pre-Training on Nutanix

Introduction  The goal of this article is to show how customers can develop a generative pre-trained  transformer (GPT) model from scratch using open source Python® libraries on the Nutanix Cloud Platform™ (NCP) full-stack LLM infrastructure platform. We largely adopted the model architecture from GPT-2 paper with 1.5B parameters and built a miniaturized GPT model with …

Nutanix Participates in First MLPerf Storage Benchmark

Machine Learning, Generative AI and Storage Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that covers a wide variety of specific approaches and algorithms.  Machine Learning (ML) is an application of AI that allows machines to extract knowledge from data and learn from it autonomously.  Machine learning will have a transformative impact on the future of …

Exploring BGP Routing Inside Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking (FVN) VPC

In today’s interconnected world, efficient data flow is crucial, and routing protocols act as guides for network traffic. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) stands out as a strong option, especially in virtualized setups where it enables flexible routing. In this blog post, we explore Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking (FVN) and how it uses BGP routing. …

PEFT for LLM Fine-Tuning on Nutanix Cloud Platform

Summary  Large Language Models (LLMs), based on the transformer architecture, like GPT, T5, and BERT,  have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks especially for text generation and conversational bots. The conventional paradigm is large-scale pretraining on generic web-scale data (CommonCrawl), followed by fine-tuning to downstream tasks. Fine-tuning these pretrained LLMs …

Managing Categories for EUC workloads in Prism Central

Categories in Nutanix Prism Central are used to group entities together based on a key value pairing. They are a similar concept to Tags. Categories are used to control many different aspects of an environment. Some common uses are outlined below:  Many Citrix environments will use Citrix Provisioning Services or Citrix Machine Creation Services to …

PostgreSQL High Availability: Under the Hood

Introduction Modern users expect their apps and data to be accessible, always. Not just most of the time. Not just when there isn’t maintenance. 100% of the time. That’s what highly available (HA) systems provide. Okay, fine, true 100% uptime simply isn’t possible. After all, the probability of a meteor destroying the planet tomorrow (and …

Furthering the Integration of Red Hat and Nutanix

Governance for Platform Teams Projects in Nutanix Cloud Manager are used by enterprises to provide self-service capabilities to consumers of IT infrastructure. With Projects, you can logically group infrastructure resources, say, for a team of engineers collaborating on a project. The administrator can then manage RBAC by assigning specific roles to the project users. In …

Simplifying Access to Geo-Distributed Object Data using Global Namespaces

Introduction Federation is an exciting and important new feature that was added to Nutanix Objects in the 4.0 release (Spring 2023). It enables a global namespace to be created across multiple Nutanix object stores, even if they are thousands of miles apart in entirely different geographic locations. Buckets hosted by these different object stores then …

Replicating Images for Citrix MCS with Prism Central (Protection Policies and Recovery Points)

Citrix Machine Creations Services (MCS) and Nutanix have always been a perfect match due to the simplicity of storage and benefits of data locality.  MCS provisioning with Nutanix for most scenarios is currently based on Prism Element integration and requires the use of a Snapshot for Citrix Catalog creation and updates. There are two exceptions …