======Nutanix - Miscellaneous====== =====Documentation===== [[http://www.nutanix.com/the-nutanix-solution/product-features/|Nutanix - Product Features]] \\ [[http://www.nutanix.com/software/|Nutanix - Software Editions]] and comparison. \\ [[http://www.nutanix.com/2013/01/30/how-it-works/|Nutanix - How It Works]] \\ [[http://www.nutanix.com/resources/product-info/|Nutanix - Resources]] for downloadable (white) papers. \\ [[http://stevenpoitras.com/the-nutanix-bible/|Steven Poitras - The Nutanix Bible]] \\ [[http://www.nutanix.com/hypervisor-support-pg/|Nutanix - Hypervisor Support]] \\ =====Blogs===== [[http://stevenpoitras.com/|Steven Poitras]] \\ =====Blogposts/Articles===== [[http://stevenpoitras.com/2014/07/advanced-nutanix-powershell-edition-produce-vdisk-report/|Steven Poitras - Advanced Nutanix – PowerShell Edition: Produce vDisk Report]] \\ [[http://www.nutanix.com/blog/2012/11/05/they-emc-think-you-are-stupid/|Nutanix Blog - They (EMC) Think You Are Stupid!]] \\ ====NFS support for Exchange Server==== // At this time (2014-12-04) Microsoft does not support running Exchange Server on a Hypervisor backed by NFS based storage. [[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee832792%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx|iSCSI, FC, and DAS based storage are supported]]. // [[https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c8b4a605-3083-4d0f-b3aa-62ea57cc6d43/|Microsoft TechNet - Exchange Server Forum - Support for Exchange Databases running within VMDKs on NFS datastores]] \\ [[http://lukaslundell.com/2014/09/nutanix-support-for-exchange-on-nfs/|LukasLundell.com - Nutanix Support for Exchange on NFS]] \\ [[http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Enterprise-Applications/Microsoft-Exchange-Server/m-p/87|Nutanix Next Community - VM Workloads & Applications - Enterprise Apps - Microsoft Exchange Server]] \\ [[http://windowsitpro.com/blog/raging-debate-around-lack-nfs-support-exchange|WindowsITPro - Tony Redmond's Exchange Unwashed Blog - The raging debate around the lack of NFS support in Exchange]] \\ [[http://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2014/06/25/nutanix-nfs-exchange/|Thoughtsofanidlemind's Blog - NFS and Exchange: Am I a sheep? Some at Nutanix think so...]] (also by Tony Redmond) \\ [[http://eightwone.com/2014/07/02/exchange-and-nfs-a-rollup/|EighTwOne #821 - Exchange and NFS – A Rollup]] \\ [[http://www.sureskillz.com/2014/07/08/unified-boxes-the-sum-of-all-fears/|SureSkillz - Unified Boxes, The Sum of all fears]] \\ [[http://www.joshodgers.com/2014/11/03/integrity-of-io-for-vms-on-nfs-datastores-part-1-emulation-of-the-scsi-protocol/|CloudXC - Integrity of I/O for VMs on NFS Datastores – Part 1 – Emulation of the SCSI Protocol]] part one of a series of posts. \\ =====Notes====== ====NFS==== Nutanix was built around iSCSI but now have the ability to run NFS as well. Nutanix calls their implementation of NFS, NDFS. It’s a really crazy bit of abstraction. Each VM is basically getting its own iSCSI LUN. Of course you don’t see any of that under the covers stuff. Source:[[http://itbloodpressure.com/2012/06/12/nutanix-drop-it-like-its-hot/|IT BLOOD PRESSURE - Nutanix: Drop It Like It’s Hot]]