Name: Dan-Alexandru Apostu NPX Number: 020 Employer: Global Nutanix Customer Blog URL: Twitter: Virtualisation background: I’ve started working with virtualization technologies in 2005 with VMware Workstation preparing for my university graduation exam. In 2010 I passed VCP3 and as I was working on increasingly complex projects I prepared for and passed the VMware advanced exams for version …
Category Archive: Nutanix
Nutanix Move 3.3 Released
Just a quick note to let you know that a new version of Nutanix Move was released yesterday, 2019-09-30, meaning latest and greatest version is now Move 3.3. As I guess you know there are two options when running the Move VM, let it run on Nutanix AHV or on VMware ESXi. Good flexibility there. …
Nutanix ERA 1.1.1 Released
Yesterday, 2019-09-19, Nutanix released a new version of its database management & data copy solution, Nutanix Era, meaning latest and greatest version is now 1.1.1. Apart from fixes which is normally what you put into dot dot releases there are some pretty nice new features and functionality you can take advantage of including: Oracle Support …
Understanding Nutanix Node Physical Memory Configuration
I wouldn’t say on a weekly basis, but I receive questions about physical memory configurations, physical memory speed, balanced vs un-balanced memory configurations from time to time. Based on that I have put together a document which you can access via the Nutanix Portal. Things like maximum memory frequency or speed and the number of …
Nutanix Move 3.2 Released
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 …
Nutanix Calm Version 2.7.0 & 2.7.1 Released
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 …
Nutanix ERA & ServiceNow Role Based Access Control
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 …
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 Calm Plug-in For ServiceNow Released
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 …
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 ERA 1.1 Released
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 …