Nutanix: Cloud-like DevOps powering NoSQL for BigData
The popularity of NoSQL has increasingly come about as developers want to use the same in-memory data structures in their applications and have them map directly into a database persistence layer. For...
View ArticleOpenstack + Nutanix Integration : A Configuration Primer
As of Acropolis Base Software (NOS) version 4.6, Nutanix released a set of Acropolis drivers that provide Openstack + Nutanix integration. These drivers allow an Openstack deployment to consume the...
View ArticleOpenstack + Nutanix : Neutron Networking
In my last post we covered the all-in-one installation of the OpenStack controller with the Nutanix shipped Acropolis Openstack drivers. The install created a single virtual machine, the Openstack...
View ArticleOpenstack + Nutanix: Glance Image Service
This post will cover the retrieval of base or cloud OS images via the Openstack Glance image service and how the Acropolis driver interacts with Glance and maintains the image data on the Nutanix...
View ArticleOpenstack + Nutanix : Nova and Cinder integration
Now that we have setup an allinone deployment of the Acropolis OVM, configured networking, and an image registry. It’s time to look at the steps required to launch virtual machine (VM) instances and...
View ArticleElasticsearch Sizing on Nutanix
One node, one index, one shard The answer to the question : “how big should I size my Elasticsearch VMs and how what kind of performance will I get?”, always comes down to the somewhat disappointing...
View ArticleUsing CALM Blueprints – Automation is the new punk!
Repeatability I can imagine there are a lot of people like me who are continually setting up and tearing down environments in order to run application benchmarks, test out APIs or run various new...
View ArticleThe Creator Supreme! …..or How to be the Kenny Dalglish of Nutanix API...
For the non European football fans out there, Kenny Dalglish,or “King Kenny” as he was known to both the Liverpool and Celtic faithful, was once described in a match commentary as “the creator...
View ArticleAutomating S3 compliant Object stores via Nutanix Objects API
As part of an API first strategy within the company, the Objects team at Nutanix has developed a REST API to enable the automated creation, deletion, management and monitoring of S3 compliant Object...
View ArticleImage upload from desktop using REST
I was asked recently to take a look at an API issue around uploading an image file from a desktop directory location into the Acropolis Image Service. The REST calls for this workflow are part of...
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