What is it? In summary, it's hot-spot detection for Nutanix Clusters running the AHV hypervisor with a unique feature that other hypervisors don't have - it's compute and storage aware. The functionality is enabled by default but can be disabled if required. Because the AOS architecture (a) controls and (b) is aware of all I/O … Continue reading Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling
Category: AHV
AOS 5.6 Released
Today has seen the public release of Nutanix's AOS 5.6 which contains fixes to code (as you'd expect from a software company) but also new additions of which the major ones are covered here. Volume Group Load Balancing There comes the point where performance demands need an injection from new software to boost the throughput, … Continue reading AOS 5.6 Released
What is One-Click?
A phrase used throughout Nutanix messaging, one-click upgrades, simply put is full automation for updating / patching an entire Nutanix environment - software as well as hardware. Using a tool removes the need for an administrator to review webpages of release code, determining whether it's applicable then cross referencing through an interoperability matrix. No errors, … Continue reading What is One-Click?
What features are available in AHV?
A common question arising at nearly all meetings with customers when reviewing hypervisor options, let's dig into the features with 'generic' descriptions. High Availability (HA) The ability to recover virtual machines to another physical hypervisor host in the event it should become unavailable - whether through logical configuration errors or physical catastrophic problems In AHV … Continue reading What features are available in AHV?
