In our last blog about the Nutanix Terraform provider we walked through deploying an image, creating a VM, and cleaning up at the end. In this post we will walk through part of the day two operations – how to secure communications in a virtual environment. Nutanix Flow is our microsegmentation solution that allows you …
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Network monitoring has been done in countless different ways over the years. From running GUI-based reports, to scheduling data dumps to looking at logs, all are valid and common methods. The data is readily available, hopefully in a format that doesn’t need any modification and really just “does what you need”. The requirement for this …
In the I.T. world, security has always been important. Although the concept of something being “secure” can be defined in many different ways, one thing is usually fairly consistent – if you don’t want a device or service on your network to communicate with another device or service on your network, there needs to be …
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Many of you from our valued community will be familiar with the Nutanix Bible. For many years the Nutanix Bible has been and still is a cornerstone of our technical resources collection, providing in-depth explanations of how many Nutanix products and technologies work “under the covers”. Original Layout The Nutanix Bible was originally published as …
A recent question from a Nutanix customer kicked off a conversation topic that Nutanix.dev hasn’t yet covered – automating Nutanix Objects bucket-related actions via SDK. If you’re new to Nutanix Objects, let’s take a quick look at how Objects is described on the Nutanix Objects product page: Forget point solutions, silos, and complexity. Add simple, …
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Recently, Nutanix released the latest version of our Terraform provider, version 1.2.0. This release focused on adding functionality, as well as supporting versions 0.13 and above of Terraform. Many in the Nutanix community have been using the Terraform Nutanix provider and, in this article, we will focus on installing the Nutanix provider and on some …
Note: This is the Python version of a recent article that covered this process using PHP. If you would prefer to read the PHP version of this article, please see here: Creating custom Prism Central categories with PHP. In a recent discussion with Frederic Lhoest, one of our highly knowledgeable and experienced customers, a question …
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In a recent discussion with Frederic Lhoest, one of our highly knowledgeable and experienced customers, a question came up regarding the management of Prism Central categories. Given the nature of the Frederic’s requirements, he had created a custom package for use with PHP applications, allowing quick access to the Nutanix APIs via that package. The …
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Quick one today! 🙂 On Friday February 5th, members of the Nutanix Technical Marketing Engineering team ran a live podcast to discuss the new features of the recently-released AOS 5.19. These podcasts are really recommended as they are a chance to listen to some of our most senior people talk about the new features in …
Here in the Developer Marketing team at Nutanix, we’re often tasked with creating scripts, demos and apps for the purposes of marketing both products and technologies. Outside of that “day to day” stuff, we’re very much an “eat your own dog food” team, that is, we use the same technologies to accomplish our own tasks …
