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Cloud Architecture | Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | Kubernetes | Nutanix | Virtualization Architecture | VMware
Resource Pooling Physics: Mastering CPU Wait Time and Memory Ballooning in High-Density Clusters
I’ve spent 25 years watching infrastructure fail, and here’s what I’ve learned: most outages don’t kick off with a dramatic meltdown. They creep in quietly. A bit of scheduler pressure, memory ballooning quietly reclaiming guest pages, and no one’s dashboard even notices Your CPU looks fine at 40%. There’s a 30% buffer left on memory….
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Sizing On-Prem AI: An Architect’s Look at Nutanix’s New GPT-in-a-Box Workflow
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box sizing has been one of the most frustrating gaps in on-prem AI planning. For the past year, designing AI workloads on-premises has felt like the Wild West — rough spreadsheets, t-shirt sizes, and guesswork on inference overhead. That changed with Sizer 6.0.94, released December 2025. The version number looks incremental. The capability jump…
