Just a quick blog post to let you know that Prism Central 2021.8 version was just released and can be downloaded via the Nutanix Portal. The PC 2021.7 release which i wrote about here brought a lot of features to the table and one of the most valuable (i think) was the AHV SyncRep & …
Today, 2021-08-20, Nutanix released a new dot version of its multi-cloud application management framework Calm meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.3. As i trust you already know, Calm brings the following key functionalities to the table: Application Lifecycle Management Native Self-Service Multi-Cloud Orchestration Unified VM & Container Management Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Application-as-Code (AaC) …
After the blog post i made some time ago, beginning of June 2021, about Nutanix Era Reporting Script – Databases i have received some questions about adding new capabilities to the script. Seems like there is a need for this kind of functionality so my reasons for putting the script together were valid. New functionality …
Thank you Nutanix engineering – with Prism 2021.7 we are getting: AHV SyncRep & Auto restart applications after cluster failure – Witness/Recovery Plan integration This is very critical for many, at least european customers i’m working with, and a great step of taking on even more business critical applications on Nutanix AHV. This means you …
Yesterday, 2021-08-02, Nutanix made the announcement that Nutanix Mine is now available with Commvault which has been a long time data protection player for Nutanix based environments. Back in 2016 i worked with Commvault for the first time and create, together with my colleague Dwayne Lessner, the Nutanix & Commvault Best Practices document. In March …
For quite a few years a Nutanix customer running the Nutanix hypervisor AHV and RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as their virtual machine guest operating system has been in a situation where: RHEL has been a supported guest operating system by Nutanix. Information from Nutanix, Understanding RHEL Certification and Support for AHV Environments Nutanix AHV has …
With the release of Era version 2.2 in late June 2021, which i wrote a blog post about here, the Era Management Plane was improved when it comes to providing high availability (HA). Era Management Plane consists of two service groups: Front-end services (API, agent, web service). Back-end service (database or repository). Prior to Era …
Been a little bit over three months since Runecast released its 5.0 version and a few days ago the first corresponding dot release was made available meaning the latest Runecast version is now 5.1. This is really good news for all of you out there running VMware vSphere on Nutanix since best practices validation for …
I just found out that Veeam released a comic book about how to combine Veeam with AWS to achieve better data protection. Compared to traditional industry publications which can be 20 – X hundred pages this comic is just a few pages and brings up some very good use cases. The following 4 stories are …
Today, 2021-06-30, is a good day for all Nutanix Era fans out there since version 2.2 has been released. There are a lot of new and improved features in this release which i trust you’ll find useable no matter what is your preferred DB engine. First of all, Era version 2.2 brings another DB engine, …
Yesterday, 2021-06.16, a new dot release of the Nutanix AOS 5.15 version was released. This means the latest and greatest 5.15 version is now 5.15.6. This is an Long Term Support (LTS) that is built upon the Short Term Release version 5.11 which included features you can read about here: 5.11 5.11.1 Read more about …
One thing that i usually discuss with organisations that are either implementing, evaluating or already running Nutanix Era is how they can do reporting. This is a pretty wide topic and can include multiple aspects and the type of report required varies based on what the report purpose is e.g: Capacity Management Chargeback Showback Based …
The other day when i tried to login to a ServiceNow dev instance which is shared among a few people i ended up in a situation where i was redirected to a web page which said “Logout successful” I was immediately redirected to https://dev-instance-name.service-now.com/external_logout_complete.do and didn’t get a chance to login at all. Not exactly …
Yesterday, 2021-05-17, a new long term support (LTS) version of AOS was released meaning the latest LTS release is now 5.20. This release includes the features included in AOS STS (Short Term Support) 5.19, 5.19.1 and 5.19.2. Read more about difference between LTS & STS here. AOS 5.20 comes with AHV version 7.2 build 20201105.2030 …
For whatever reason i ran into a problem with the vCenter Server, version 7.0.1 & build number 17491160, client plugin NSX user interface plugin which was displayed with status failed. In vCenter Server virtual appliance (VA) i found a file called .com.vmware.nsx.ui.h5-6.4.5.13282012.incomplete but there was no plugin directory associated with NSX. The above file was …
