In addition to the release of Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) 5.11 2019-08-05, which is a Short Term Support (STS) version, Nutanix also released a new Long Term Support (LTS) AOS version 5.10.6 yesterday, 5:th of August. Read more about the AOS 5.11 release here. Read more about difference between LTS & STS here. In addition …
Category Archive: AOS
Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.8 Released
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 …
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 Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.7 Released
A short note to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.7 has been release just a few days ago. This release comes with 12 new plugins including 17 new checks which your environment will benefit from. NCC 3.7 requires minimum AOS version 4.7, which you can see here and supports AHV, ESXi, Hyper-V and …
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 …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.2
Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. Two new columns are included in this version: VM Description vNUMA Configuration The VM Description information is available via Prism Element (Nutanix Cluster) but the vNUMA Configuration information is only available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if you want …