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 …
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Reducing consumption and improving sustainability: Introduction
If you’ve already deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform and migrated your workloads to it, congratulations! You’re already using one of the most, if not the most, efficient data center technologies available to enterprise IT organizations to reduce power, cooling, physical footprint and manual effort. But what can you do next to further reduce power consumption? …
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Reducing consumption and improving sustainability: Part 1, Measure
Well, you might be able to improve it, but how do you know you’ve improved it? And how do you know the improvement was worth the effort if you can’t quantify it? When it comes to power consumption the first step to any reduction programme has to be to measure. This isn’t just true for …
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How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 1
Part 2 in this series: How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 2. Part 3 in this series: How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 3. Nutanix is a leading provider of hybrid multicloud solutions that help enterprises simplify their IT …
How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 2
Part 1 in this series: How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 1. Part 3 in this series: How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 3. Nutanix Driver Installation To deploy an RKE 1 cluster on Nutanix infrastructure, you …
How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 3
Part 1 in this series: How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 1. Part 2 in this series: How to Deploy a Fleet of Rancher RKE1 Clusters on Nutanix: The Complete Guide Part 2. Nutanix CSI Driver Installation Kubernetes clusters can use Nutanix block storage and file …
MLOps continuum from Edge to Cloud
Introduction Today, every company is exploring various opportunities in the space of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has the potential to transform a wide range of industries and applications including Healthcare, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Fraud Detection, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Financial Analysis, and so on. At Nutanix, we have over 20,000 customers across various industries that …
Generative AI on Nutanix
Summary Due to significant advancements in machine learning over the past few years, state of the art models have achieved impressive milestones and can now be applied to a wide range of complex tasks. In order to achieve this, one needs to manage the lifecycle of models. This is known as MLOps. MLOps consists of …
Train Transformer Models on Nutanix
Summary The goal of this blog is to show how customers can train a transformer model from scratch using open source Python libraries on Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP). Transformer, which is the core model architecture of ChatGPT, is one of the most prominent deep learning models in the contemporary era [1]. Transformer is a remarkable …
Nutanix v4 LCM APIs: Self Service & Dark Sites
The process of deploying every component in a new environment can be somewhat daunting. For example, an application or automation approach may have multiple components such as VMs, API calls that need to be configured, updates that need to be downloaded, etc. Doing all this manually is potentially quite inefficient. Instead, today’s example will be …
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