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The “Day 2” Reality of Migrating VMware to Nutanix: What the Migration Tools Don’t Tell You
Everyone loves the “green lights” on a migration dashboard. I’ve sat in plenty of steering committee meetings where the project lead flashes a slide showing 500 VMs successfully moved from ESXi to AHV using Nutanix Move. There is applause, the project is marked “Complete,” and the consultants leave. But for the Solution Engineers and Cloud…
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Translating the Stack: A Field Guide to Migrating NSX-T Security to Nutanix Flow
The most dangerous part of a hypervisor migration isn’t moving the data—it’s moving the logic. In the VMware ecosystem, NSX-T is often a sprawling, network-centric overlay. In the Nutanix ecosystem, Flow Microsegmentation is a workload-centric attribute. If you attempt a 1:1 “lift and shift” of your firewall rules without understanding the underlying philosophy shift, you…
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Governing The Shadow Architecture: A 2025 Guide to Enterprise LCNC
Around 2018, I watched a Fortune 500 financial firm lose six months of engineering velocity because a marketing sub-team built a “simple” customer intake portal using a No-Code tool that didn’t support their VPC security requirements. By the time the Security Architects found it, 50,000 PII records were sitting in an unencrypted third-party database. This…
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Think Like an Architect: The Field Guide to Cloud Egress and Data Gravity
When you’re designing for Day 2 operations, you quickly realize that data isn’t just heavy—it’s expensive to move. I’ve seen countless “cloud-native” projects hit a wall during the scaling phase because the architect assumed egress was a flat overhead. It isn’t. It’s a variable tax that scales with your success. To build like an engineer,…
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