Yesterday, August 5:th 2019, Nutanix released new version of their core HCI product Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS). In addition there was a new version released, matching AOS 5.11, for Prism Central, Calm version 2.7.1 and AHV plus Nutanix Objects was declared GA with version 1.0. AOS 5.11 …
Category Archive: AHV
Nutanix AHV Turbo For Windows Guests Operating Systems
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 …
Nutanix Move 3.0.2 Released
About 1.5 moths ago Nutanix Move (formerly known as Nutanix VM Migrate) 3.0 was release and last week a dot dot update was made available. This means the latest and greatest release of Nutanix Move is 3.0.2. I wanted to point this out since it includes quite a few fixes and some I found useful …
Nutanix Physical Networking – How Can I Connect Nutanix Nodes
One question I receive on almost a weekly basis is how am I allowed to connect Nutanix Nodes in the same Nutanix cluster via physical switches. Even though there has been no official documentation around this there has been understanding on how to do things meaning keep them as close to each other as possible. …
Nutanix Move 3.0 Released
Yesterday, 2019-03-13, Nutanix released Move version 3.0 and for those of you who never heard about it it’s actually the new name for the good old Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines. One of the most significant improvements in this version is that you can now migrate VMs from Hyper-V to AHV meaning the following sources …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.4
Based on some feedback of people actually using the reporting script I have added two more fields in the report for the 2.4 release. The additional reporting metrics are: Categories VM uuid Script still uses either Prism Element (the actual NutanixCluster) as source or both Prism Element and Prism Central. When using Prism Central you’ll …
Nutanix Xtract For VMs Version 2.0.3 Released
Yesterday, 2019-02-04, Nutanix released a new version of its VM migration tool called Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines meaning latest and greatest version is now 2.0.3. For those of you that don’t know, Xtract for VMs is a tool to migrate VMs to Nutanix AHV hypervisor AHV. I know it is a dot dot release but …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.3
Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. This release includes fixes to runtime output and to VM annotation/description filed including a comma sign. Example of script runtime output. Script still uses either Prism Element (the actual NutanixCluster) as source or both Prism Element and Prism Central. When using Prism Central …
Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.10 And More Released
Today, 2018-11-26, Nutanix released the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of its operating system AOS also known as Acropolis Operating System. So that means we are on version 5.10 and since it is an LTS release we can expect it to be supported until late 2019/early 2020 which is pretty good. As usual check …
Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load Balancer Configuration
This is the fourth blog post about my work with Citrix ADC VPX which, as mentioned before, will be used as a Web Server Load Balancer. All blog posts in this series includes: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load …