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FINALLY!! Nutanix Community Edition (CE) is here and it’s FREE!! – #Nutanix, #EnvokeIT, #Virtualization via (@andreleibovici

June 11, 2015 Leave a comment

This is so cool! I know that a lot of people out there has beeen waiting for this, including myself! šŸ˜‰

Nutanix CE is a great way to get you started with Nutanix in your own lab environment; and it is now available to everyone now. CE is a fully working Acropolis + Prism stack that enables you to not only host your virtual machines, but enjoy all the benefits of Nutanix. The features available with CE are the exact same enjoyed by paying customers, being the difference that it is a community supported edition and there is a maximum limit of 4 nodes.

Some of the features available with CE are:

  • De-duplication
  • Compression
  • Erasure Coding
  • Asynchronous DR
  • Shadow Cloning
  • Single server (RF=1), three servers (RF=2) or four servers (RF=2)
  • Acropolis Hypervisor (all VM operations, high availability etc.)
  • Analytics
  • Full API framework for development, orchestration and automation
  • Self-Healing
  • ToR integration

Metro Availability, Synchronous Replication, Cloud Connect and Prism Central as not part of Nutanix CE.

Since you will be providing the hardware there are some minimum requirements:

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Nutanix CE extends the Nutanix commitment to fostering an open, transparent and community-centric approach to innovative solutions for mainstream enterprises. Nutanix CE enables a complete hyperconverged infrastructure deployment in just 60 minutes or less on your own hardware and without virtualization or software licensing.

To get started access ā€œGetting Started with Nutanix Community Editionā€, create an account and you will be able to register for download. The first…

As usual your more than welcome to contact me at richard at envokeit.com or contact us at EnvokeIT if you want to know more about Nutanix!

Continue reading here!

//Richard

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#Citrix and Palo Alto Networks Team to Deliver Consolidated, Multi-tenant Network Security and #ADC Services on #NetScaler SDX

February 4, 2014 Leave a comment

This is really interesting!!

With the myriad of features thatĀ we launched in PAN-OS 6.0, you may have missed a new deployment option forĀ Palo Alto Networks VM-SeriesĀ in your data center. In addition to the support of VM-Series for VMware environments, you can now deploy the VM-Series on the Citrix NetScaler SDX platform.Ā We launched this with Citrix officially today.

Virtualized and cloud environments require the secure and efficient delivery of the right applications to the right users using any device and from any location. To do this, you need an infrastructure that supports all aspects of application delivery (security, availability, performance and visibility) and embraces the key characteristics of cloud:

  • Multi-tenancy ā€“ the ability to support differing needs of new application owners, business units or service provider customers
  • Agility ā€“ the services must have the ability to be provisioned and de-provisioned on demand, with support for automation and orchestration
  • Scalability ā€“ the services must have the ability to flexibly scale up, scale out capacity to meet the needs of the business

Citrix NetScaler SDX is an open, multi-services platform that addresses these requirements. The NetScaler SDX platform consolidates NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC), and best-in-class network and security services required for application delivery. Now, with the introduction of VM-Series on Citrix NetScaler, youā€™ll be able to provide dedicated instances of security and ADC for per application load balancing with dedicated firewalling. You now also have a complete, integrated security and availability solution for Citrix XenApp XenDesktop deployments ā€“ from secure remote access, high-availability…

Continue reading here!

//Richard

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#Windows #Azure Desktop Hosting Deployment Guide – #RDS, #BYOD – via @michael_keen

November 12, 2013 Leave a comment

This is great! Have a look at this guide!

Hello everyone, this is Clark Nicholson from the Remote Desktop Virtualization Team. Iā€™m writing today to let you know that we have just published theĀ Windows Azure Desktop Hosting Deployment Guide. This document provides guidance for deploying a basic desktop hosting solution based on theĀ Windows Azure Desktop Hosting Reference Architecture Guide. This document is intended to provide a starting point for implementing a Desktop Hosting service on Windows Azure virtual machines. A production environment will need additional deployment steps to provide advanced features such as high availability, customized desktop experience, RemoteApp collections, etc.

For more information, please seeĀ Remote Desktop ServicesĀ andĀ Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.

Continue reading here!

//Richard

Categories: All, Azure, BYOD, Client Services, Cloud, Microsoft, Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Solving the Compute and Storage scalability dilemma – #Nutanix, via @josh_odgers

October 24, 2013 Leave a comment

The topic of Compute, Network and STORAGE is a hot topic as I’ve written in blog posts before this one (How to pick virtualization (HW, NW, Storage) solution for your #VDI environment? ā€“ #Nutanix,Ā @StevenPoitras)Ā … and still a lot of colleagues and customers are struggling with finding better solutions and architecture.

How can we ensure that we get the same or better performance of our new architecture? How can we scale in a more simple and linear manner? How can we ensure that we don’t have a single point of failure for all of our VM’s etc..? How are others scaling and doing this in a better way?

I’m not a storage expert, but I do know and read that many companies out there are working on finding the optimal solution for Compute and Storage, and how they can get the cost down and be left with a more simple architecture to manage…

This is a topic that most need to address as well now when more and more organisations are starting to build their private clouds, because how are you going to scale it and how can you get closer to the delivery that the big players provide? Gartner even had Software-Defined-Storage (SDS) as the number 2 trend going forward:Ā #Gartner Outlines 10 IT Trends To Watch ā€“ via @MichealRoth, #Nutanix,Ā #VMWare

Right now I see Nutanix as the leader here! They rock! Just have a look at this linear scalability:

If you want to learn more how Nutanix can bring great value please contact us at EnvokeIT!

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Categories: All, Cloud, Infrastructure, Nutanix, Storage, VMWare, Windows Server 2012 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

#Citrix #StoreFront Planning Guide

February 6, 2013 2 comments

Ok, this product has caused some headache since it was released. And I must say that this guide is something that Citrix should have release a long time ago… there are so many companies out there struggling with how to deal with Web Interface being faced out and how/what to do with StoreFront!

So enjoy!

Download StoreFront Planning Guide!

//Richard

Categories: All, Citrix, CloudGateway, Receiver, StoreFront, XenDesktop Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Issue 23 – The XenDesktop Experience A Technical Publication for XenDesktop Customers

October 10, 2012 Leave a comment

Ok, Citrix has again released the XenDesktop technical publication, have a look at it!

Example topics include;

  • High Availability for Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp – Planning Guide
  • How to Tighten the Security of Windows Desktops
  • Tackling Windows Migration

Continue reading here!

//Richard

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