Thick Provisioning on Nutanix

We had a customer request some thick eager provisioned virtual disks in an effort to improve performance on their SQL Server. We explained that while in legacy storage systems, thick provisioned disks do provide slightly better performance because the systems write zeroes to the disk so that metadata is allocated faster. This is no longer…

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Share a Nutanix Datastore to a Non-Nutanix Cluster in vSphere

I had a need to mount a Nutanix datastore a non-Nutanix cluster in my environment for a migration, and ran into some issues. There are a lot of helpful articles out there for mouting Nutanix datastores via NFS, such as this one here. My dilemma is I need to have the Nutanix datastore presented in…

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