Using Request ID Headers with Nutanix v4 APIs

With the Nutanix v4 APIs now released as Early Access (EA), the options for managing and creating entities in a Nutanix Prism Central environment have significantly improved. For example, the current EA release, available through Prism Central version pc.2022.6, allows API consumers to create images that will be used as base disks for new VMs. …

Nutanix Flow Security Best Practices Part 1 – What is Flow Network Security?

In this multi-part series, the goal is to first familiarize you with the solution and then provide guidance on preparing to deploy Flow Network Security and help you learn the constructs that form your policy framework. So, what is Flow Network Security?  By now, you may have heard the name, read about it or had …

Nutanix Extends Amazon EKS Anywhere Support for Enterprise On-Premises Kubernetes

Nutanix and our customers have always embraced choice in the datacenter. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Unified Storage bring easy, enterprise-class operations, solutions and scale to thousands of customers running heterogeneous applications in VMs, and microservices-based, modern applications in containers leveraging Kubernetes. Today at Kubecon North America in Detroit, Michigan, we’re pleased to deliver on …

Zero Trust and the Human Factor

Last week, the website KrebsonSecurity published a story on the recent creation of a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles – and not just any profiles, but specifically of CISO roles at Fortune 500 companies.  Further in the article, Krebs shows that at least one of these fake CISOs made it onto the CyberCrime Magazine’s …

Securing VM Guests in Virtual Environments

Today, hardware manufacturers offer several security protections for the running Operating Systems (OS), such as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface(UEFI), Secure Boot, and Trusted Platform Module(TPM). These hardware technologies are designed to protect the underlying system being booted and are not necessarily designed to protect VM guests running in a virtualized environment.  Microsoft has invested in …

Nutanix Benefit 10: Secure by Default with Native VM-level Data Encryption

Throughout the Nutanix Benefits series, you’ve learned about the versatility, efficiency, and resiliency of the Nutanix Cloud Platform. The series highlighted unique characteristics of the Nutanix architecture that enable high performance and resiliency even at scale. Combined with enterprise grade replication and disaster recovery, Nutanix provides customers with a compelling platform that provides freedom of …

Nutanix v4 API Namespace Update

In August 2022 Nutanix announced the first EA (Early Access) release of the new Nutanix v4 APIs. Along with new approaches to using APIs via HTTP request, this release included the first Python, Java, Go and JS Nutanix SDKs. Today we have extended that announcement with the release of the following additional namespaces. A more …

September 2022 Code Sample Update

Over the last few months we’ve announced a published a number of updates and interesting articles. In this time we’ve covered subjects such as Getting Started with the Nutanix Ansible module to an ongoing Top 10 Benefits of Nutanix series. Today’s quick code sample update is for those interested in using the Nutanix REST APIs …

Nutanix Benefit 9: Fully Unified Storage

By Mike McGhee, Director TMM – NC2, NUS, NDB You might think Nutanix is synonymous with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) because we replaced legacy solutions consisting of separate storage arrays, storage area networks, servers and virtualization. But did you know Nutanix provides a complete unified storage offering? The storage offering includes iSCSI based block services, SMB …

Nutanix Benefit 8: Integrated Self-service Database Management

At the beginning of the Nutanix Benefits series, we showed exactly how the Nutanix Cloud Platform is excellent for running critical apps and databases due to architectural decisions like dynamically distributed storage, automated app-aware data management, and granular and efficient snapshots. Nutanix also has a self-service database management platform known as the Nutanix Database Service …