Nutanix Benefit 7: The Freedom of License Portability

The first rains are hitting the Bay Area which means ski season isn’t far away. In past years, downhill enthusiasts were limited to single-resort season passes with location lock-in that frustrated variety seekers and forced upfront planning and commitment. Today’s skiers can choose from a new selection of multi-resort passes that open up slopes across …

Nutanix Benefit 6: Hypervisor Choice

Nutanix has a well-deserved reputation for giving customers freedom of choice. While there are many examples of this, we will focus this blog on how the Nutanix Cloud Platform architecture gives customers a choice of hypervisor options because the distributed AOS storage stack runs independently of the compute hypervisor. We understand that selecting a hypervisor …

Nutanix v4 APIs: Making The First Requests (Python 3 SDK)

In our most recent article, Nutanix v4 APIs: Making The First Requests (Python 3 API Client), we introduced the Nutanix v4 APIs and outlined how to get started using them with Python 3. Since that intro covered using the APIs via HTTPS request, similar approaches can be used with the language of your choice. In …

Nutanix v4 APIs: Making The First Requests (Python 3 API Client)

This introductory article is the first part in a mini series covering how to get started with the Nutanix v4 REST APIs and SDKs. In this part, we’ll setup our first requests using a custom API client written with Python 3. Part 2, coming soon, will cover making the same requests but using the new …

Nutanix EA v4 APIs and SDKS released!

Today marks the next milestones in our Nutanix API journey. Early Access to version 4 (v4) of our client REST APIs and SDKs has just been announced and both are now available to all Nutanix customers. If you are an existing user of the Nutanix Prism REST APIs, you’ll know we’ve been working on making …

Getting Started with the Nutanix Ansible module

In March 2022 Nutanix released the first generally available (GA) version of our Ansible module. This release allowed our customers and partners to easily integrate the Nutanix Cloud Platform configurations and changes into deployment workflows. For example, the March 2022 release provided access to the following Nutanix Cloud Platform entities (and others, that we’ll talk …

What’s new in AOS 6.5 LTS for Disaster Recovery

This week Nutanix announced the general availability release of our AOS™ 6.5 long term support (LTS) infrastructure software, delivering better performance, simpler management, enhanced orchestration capabilities, and more for customers who have adopted a long term support deployment cadence. The new functionality continues to enhance the value of our customers’ hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) deployments and …

Nutanix Calm and eScript: Talking to external APIs

When architecting application deployments, it’s not uncommon for a deployment to need info provided via by a third-party API. Alternatively, an application deployment may need to send info to a third-party API. Some examples of these actions could be: Getting an IP address from an IPAM service Sending deployment details to a CMDB service Triggering …

Using Nutanix NCM Self Service & eScript: Update

Introduction Some time ago, we published an article titled “Using Nutanix Calm & eScript”. Since that article was published back in 2019, this one will take its place and use current Nutanix NCM Self Service (formerly Calm) UI examples & features. Update September 2022: For the remainder of this article Nutanix Calm will be referred …

Kubernetes in Production—Finding the Best Platform for Containerized Applications

For orchestrating containerized microservices, open-source Kubernetes (K8s) solutions now fuel most new digital businesses. Each vendor that offers a K8s solution typically provides a platform that integrates other open-source and proprietary tools to help users deploy digital services quickly and securely. The best platforms meet the needs of most organizations, no matter their level of …