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Nutanix: removing hotplug devices

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Maybe you saw, when you right click  "safely remove hardware and eject media". You have the option to eject the ethernet adapter and a few other things which you might want to avoid to be ejected due to the fact that your Nutanix Box isn't reachable anymore afterwards. Therefore just update the Reg_DWORD of capabilities key to (2): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1000&SUBSYS_00011AF4&REV_00\3&13c0b0c5&0&18 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1002&SUBSYS_00051AF4&REV_00\3&13c0b0c5&0&28 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1004&SUBSYS_00081AF4&REV_00\3&13c0b0c5&0&20 Afterwards it shouldn't be there anymore:

Summary of the Nutanix .Next Tour in Frankfurt: Dive into Hyperconverged Infrastructure Day 2

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Let me give you some information about my second day on the Nutanix .Next Tour in Frankfurt. For everybody who missed my first post about the day before the tour you'll find it here: https://simonscitrix.blogspot.com/2018/02/summary-of-nutanix-next-tour-in.html This day was the actual day of the Tour. A lot of Nutanix partners had a stand in the showroom and the visitors had the possibilities to take part in hands-on labs and watching demos like from HYCU (see my first Post). The day started with a keynote and I want to give you a short summary off the topics. Nutanix  Nutanix was rated by Gartner as the hyper converged infrastructure leader with a net rate of 90+. I want to say that 70+ is already very good. They have  7k customer in 130 countries, 3k+ employees, 1b+ runrate, $800m+ software. Nutanix challenge ist o have not a single cloud. They try to offer multiple cloud solutions like public cloud (AWS, azure etc) and combine it with a private cloud for all...

Summary of the Nutanix .Next Tour in Frankfurt: Introducing the first only Nutanix Backup Solution Day 1

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This is my first Article about Nutanix. I was partially involved in a Nutanix/Citrix VDI blog and I was quite impressed from the capabilities Nutanix offers  and decided to dive deeper in the world of hyper converged infrastructure. So I visited the .NEXT Tour in Frankfurt on February 06th 2018. If you missed it, no worries. Next stops are: Utrecht, Netherlands March 06 2018 London, United Kingdom March 14 2018 Dubai, United Arab Emirates April 10 2018 So let's start with Monday 05th. I visited an evening reception from ADN and Comtrade where they presented the first backup and recovery Solution for Nutanix called HYCU. It's very performant for Acropolis File Server (AFS), Acropolis Block Services (ABS), Acropolis Object Storage Services (AOSS), and can be implemented in a 4-3-2 Method. Learn in less than 4 Minutes Deploy in less than 3 Minutes Recover in less than 2 Minutes Key integration topics with Nutanix are: Storage Level Snapshots Data In...