Robbie Black - Nutanix Technology Champion

 Nutanix in NHS Scotland    I was delighted to be given the opportunity by the fantastic folks in the Scottish Nutanix team to present to potential other NHS customers at an event hosted in Edinburgh.     The Event Started off with Nutanix giving an update on the recent product announcements from .Next and what is coming up in the near future. Then it was over to me to present on how my healthboard started with nutanix, how the journey has been and where we are looking to go next.  Some of the points i touched on were as follows -  Why Nutanix ? - moving away from a legacy traditional 3 tier infrastructure stack, licences, support channels and much more feature rich.   Timeline - All started with a POC unit which was one Chassis with 4 nodes, allowed us to go through the foundation process and created a test cluster. We then purchased our own nodes and started our migration of VM's and Files (SMB & NFS). We then deployed NDB and now man...

 .Next on Tour In London     I was lucky enough to be asked to present on stage to discuss my experience of migration workloads to the Nutanix platform. It was an honor to share the stage with Kevin Mcgarvey :)  We discussed a variety of topics such as -   Planning migration strategy Engage Stakeholders Requirements Gathering Design Test Plans Change Management UAT  Load Testing  NDB Discover Plan Migrate Validate Optimize Go-Live Move Moving VM's to Nutanix pre seed and cutover Files Migration - SMB and NFS  use cases for standard and distributed shares Objects replicator  I was able to give a few examples when i worked on my migration where before nutanix we had a request for 2 web servers to have access to shared storage, and under our legacy infrastructure we just could not do it. But with Nutanix we are now able to accomodate requests like that.   It was great to network with other NTC's that made the trip, the wider nutanix te...