Today, 2018-07-03, Nutanix released a new version of its Acropolis Operating System (AOS) meaning the latest and greatest version is 5.8. The following products and features were also updated: Prism Central is now version 5.8 Acropolis File Services is now version 3.0.1 AHV is now version AHV 20170830.151 Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) is now version …
Category Archive: AHV
Manage Nutanix Guest Tools For Cloned VMs
This blog post will cover how you can manage, enable, Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) for cloned VMs instead of doing it manually for every new clone VM. A description of NGT can be found here. The manual process is described in the Nutanix Prism Web Console Guide but is you create multiple VMs it might be …
Migrate Hyper-V 2012R2 VMs To Nutanix AHV
The following blog post will cover the steps taken when I migrated a Hyper-V 2012 R2 VM running Windows Server 2008, called VM01 below, to Nutanix AHV version 20170830.115 and Nutanix AOS version 5.6. Yeah I know that Windows 2008 R2 is not the most modern OS but that was the constraint in this case …
AHV Best Practices Guide Version 4.1 Released
As you might know there are a few new AOS and AHV versions released since the last AHV Best Practices Guide (BPG) were released. Newest AOS releases are 5.6 and 5.5.2 depending on what release track you have chosen. The Updated AHV BPG still covers the following areas: Nutanix Acropolis Architecture AHV Networking Overview Networking …
Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.5.2 & More Released
Yesterday, 2018-05-03, Nutanix released a new version of its Long Term Supported (LTS) Release 5.5 family meaning the latest and greatest is now 5.5.2. Don’t mix this with the Short Term Supported (STS) version 5.6 release I blogged about here. In addition Prism Central 5.5.2 and AHV 20170830.120 were also released There are improvements in …
Data Protection for Nutanix AHV Based VMs Version 1.4 Released
The story continues, now Storware with its product vProtect is added to the list of backup & restore solutions with built-in AHV support. Great news for everyone since it give each customer even more freedom of choice. ¨This means the following third-party vendors now support backing up AHV based VMs: Cohesity Commvault Comtrade Software HYCU …
Nutanix Flow – Quarantine VM(s)
This blog post will cover the quarantine VM functionality available in Nutanix Flow. This option can be very useful when a VM behaves in a way that it put itself and or other components at risk. Could be virus infected VM, hacked VM and so on. Quarantine configuration Verify quarantine functionality Quarantine Configuration Let’s start …
Nutanix Flow – Enable Microsegmentation
This is just a quick blog post about how to enable the microsegmentation functionality in the Nutanix Flow framework. Microsegmentation is managed via Prism Central so log in to Prism Central and: Click the Question mark on the right hand side Click New in Prism Central Click Microsegmentation In my case I only got one …
List Nutanix AHV Physical Memory Configuration
A question I have received quite a few times when Nutanix customers wants to add memory to their AHV hosts is how they can see the following: DIMM Size in use DIMM Locator in use DIMMs Bank Locator in use You can get some of this information from the out of band management interface (IPMI, …
Nutanix AHV & Promiscuous Mode
A question I have received a few times is if AHV supports promiscuous mode or not. The easy answer is YES it does. However there is a huge difference in how promiscuous mode works for AHV compared to another well known hypervisor VMware ESXi. AHV uses Open vSwitch for network communication in most cases, there …
Nutanix Xtract For VM Version 1.1.2 Released
In October 2017 I wrote a blog post about Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines which provides almost no VM downtime during the migration from vSphere ESXi to Nutanix AHV. Now, 2018-01-30, version 1.1.2 has been released and it comes with a few enhancements which can/will make your even life easier when migrating VMs to Nutanix …
Migrate Nutanix AHV Network Traffic From 2×1 Gbps NICs To 2×10 Gbps NICs
A while back a Nutanix AHV customer implemented 10 Gbps at their remote office so we had to change the 2×1 Gbps NICs used by their Nutanix cluster to 2×10 Gbps NICs. This blog post will cover the steps taken to achieve that and it will include Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) and Prism configuration and …