Runecast Analyzer version 3.0 was released last week, 2019-08-21, and comes with some really nice new features and improvements. Two major improvements are scalability to increase performance and reliability for even the largest VMware environments out there. From a security perspective Runecast 3.0 comes with an API-driven token creation, expiration configuration & editable PCI-DSS security checks. Log analysis has …
A few days ago, 2019-08-21, VMware released vSphere 6.7 Update 3. No specific Swedish related updated this time but there are a few quite interesting stuff anyway 🙂 There are some new features and many resolved issues. New features includes: You can change Primary Network Identifier (PNID) of your vCenter Server Appliance. Includes changes to …
A while ago I started to get an annoying warning message when using SSH to connect from my MacBook Pro, running macOS Mojave version 10.14.6, to some, not all, remote systems using the built-in Terminal application, iTERM2 or whatever other application providing a SSH capability. Error message: You can read more about UNIX environment variables, …
Just a quick note to let you know that VMware just released a new version of PowerCLI which is tool built on Windows PowerShell and used for command line management or scripting purposes. The new release is 11.4.0 and this dot release comes with the following enhancements: Support for Horizon View 7.9 Storage module – …
It’s been a while since I did any hands-on with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), formerly known as vCloud Automation Center, but a while ago I was asked to do some integration work between vRA and Nutanix Era. Before jumping in and developing vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflows I obviously need a vRA environment:) This blog post …
Nutanix Move is a tool to migrate virtual machines to the Nutanix HCI. Until the most recent release you could migrate VMs from the following sources to Nutanix AHV: vSphere ESXi Hyper-V Amazon AWS With the new Move 3.2 release which was made available a few days ago you can now also migrate VMs to …
If you haven’t purchased or even decided if you’ll attend VMworld US, taking place in San Francisco 25-29 August 2019 at Moscone Center, I would like to let you know that once again Veeam gives you a chance to win VMworld tickets. These are full conference passes and will be given out to three lucky winners. The only thing you need …
A new version of Nutanix Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (Calm) software was released yesterday, 5:th of August 2019) meaning the latest and greatest version is now 2.7.0 & 2.7.1 where: 2.7.0 belongs to AOS & PC 5.10.6 which you can read more about here 2.7.1 belongs to AOS & PC 5.11 which you can read …
A while ago i wrote an article about Nutanix Era, a database management & data copy solution, version 1.1 which was released in early July. Read more about it here. One of the new features in Era 1.1 was role based access control (RBAC) and i have been working quite a lot lately with both …
Two days ago, 2019-07-23, NAKIVO released a new version of their Backup & Replication product meaning the latest version is now 9.0. The 9.0 version comes with two major new features including: Backup support for physical Windows Servers Support for Hyper-V 2019 (new release available since June 19) This means you can now use NAKIVO …
As most of you know Nutanix introduced a component/feature/technique called AHV Turbo to further improve storage performance for virtual machines (VMs) when using the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The initial release, about two years ago, provided the AHV Turbo feature from both the hypervisor and the VM perspective where Linux based VMs were able to take …
Over the past 6-12 months I have received numerous questions about how to integrate ServiceNow with Nutanix products meaning using ServiceNow as a front-end portal and call various Nutanix products (Prism, Prism Central, Era, Calm) to perform actions. Unless you haven’t seen it already, Nutanix has released (June 2019) a Calm plug-in for ServiceNow, version …
A short note to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.8 was released today 2019-07-12 and it comes with 20 new or updated checks plus improvements to pre-upgrade checks (including time to execute the pre-upgrade checks) which your environment will benefit from. NCC 3.8 requires minimum AOS version 5.5, meaning same requirements …
Yesterday, 2019-07-09, Nutanix released a new version of its database management & data copy solution, Nutanix Era, meaning latest and greatest version is now 1.1. This version comes with some really good new features & enhancements: Role Based Access Control (RBAC) including four different roles. Authentication via Active Directory Deploy highly available PostgreSQL databases. Two …