Today, 2022-01-24, Nutanix has release version 2.4 of its DBaaS platform Era. This version will let you manage 600 DBs across two Nutanix cluster from a single Era instance. Great enhancement. Highlighted New Features Apart from the scalability improvement already mentioned there are eight major new features in this new version and i’d like to …
Customers has been running databases on top of Nutanix HCI for quite a few years and the number keeps increasing. One reason being is obviously the magic HCI solution but another major reason is the Nutanix Database Management solution, Era, which i believe you are already familiar with. No matter if you’re using Era or …
A new version of the Nutanix Container Storage Interface (CSI) Volume Driver for Kubernetes has been released meaning the most recent version is now 2.5. It comes with the following new and/or enhanced features: CSI NFS Volume Resize feature allows dynamically resizing of persistent volumes (PVs). NFS IP whitelist meaning the NFS volume can only …
Two days ago, 2021-12-27, Nutanix released a new patched version of Prism Central based on the updated security issues with log4j. It was only seven days since the previous patch so let’s hope this is the last one addressing the log4j issue but you never know. As usual Prism Central can be downloaded via Nutanix …
By following a real simple two step process you can get your hands on some nice swag from VEEAM. It’s about providing your details (name, email, company and region) and share a story via social media where you have three pre-defined stories to select from. Not that complicated at all 🙂 By doing the above …
Yesterday, 2012-12-13, i once again encountered the problem of not being able to pscp files to my vCenter Server. i have run in to this a few times over the years and now it was time to write down the solution. When trying to run pscp.exe to transfer a file to vCenter Server 7.0U2d i’m …
I’m the first one to admit that i’m probably the last one to know that you can easily make changes to your screenshots in macOS using the built-in Preview application:) What you’re looking for is called Markup Toolbar….. So my use case was to hide information in a screenshot before i share it with other …
Just a quick note to let you know that i have updated the Era DB Reporting script with one new column, Database/Instance Status, which will be reported as the following: Information about the reporting script can be found in the original blog post which is available here. In short it let’s you create a report …
MSP is a managed platform based on Kubernetes for managing containerized services running on PC and a new version was released two days ago, 2021-11-24 meaning latest and greatest version of MSP is now 2.3.4. This is just a dot dot release but it comes with some good fixes that solves connectivity issues with Prism …
As you might be aware of Nutanix Files version 4.0 was release in beginning of October 2021 and last week, 2021-11-08, a dot dot dot version 4.0.0.2 was released. This version fixes an issues for Files environments with ICAP scans enabled. Nutanix Files Logical Overview – Figure Borrowed From Nutanix Official Documentation If you did …
As i trust most of you familiar with Nutanix Era already know the Era configuration is stored in the repository (repo) backed by a PostgreSQL database running in the Era appliance. There are multiple options available for managing and configuring your Nutanix Era plattform. UI – Which actually performs API calls to the back end. …
Back in March earlier this year (2021) i published a blog post about an Era Security document i have put together and made available via the Nutanix Portal. As you might be aware of the document has been updated to reflect the changes included in Era version 2.3. When the initial Era Security doc was …
For almost 6 months ago Nutanix released an initial version of its Era ServiceNow plugin which i wrote about here. Today a new version, 2.0, of the ServiceNow certified plugin has been release and made available via the ServiceNow store. Picture borrowed from ServiceNow web page In addition to the plugin capabilities included in the …
A new version of Nutanix Move – VM migration tool which makes it possible to migrate VMs between environments with minimal downtime – was released a few days ago meaning the latest version is now 4.2 . A major improvement to this version is the functionality to migrate your Azure based workload to Nutanix including …
With the release of Era version 2.3 in late September 2021, which i wrote a blog post about here, the Era Management Plane was improved when it comes to providing high availability (HA) meaning it does not include any single point of failure (SPOF) anymore. Era Management Plane consists of two service groups: Front-end services …
