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 …
Category Archive: Nutanix
Nutanix & HPE Global Partnership Announcement
As you might know Nutanix has been supporting a variety of HPE, both Gen9 and Gen10, servers running Nutanix software meaning even before todays announcement there has been Nutanix customers using HPE hardware. But now it’s a true partnership between HPE & Nutanix. This changes today, 2019-04-09, since Nutanix and HPE announced a global partnership …
Nutanix Karbon 1.0 Released
I know many of you have heard of and potentially also used Nutanix Karbon in tech preview over the last x months. For those of you not familiar with Nutanix Karbon it is Nutanix tool to provision, scale and operate Kubernetes clusters. Yesterday, 2019-03-25, Karbon 1.0, which runs as containers in Nutanix Prism Central (PC) …
Nutanix Files 3.5 Released
Yesterday, 2019-03-18, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Files, formerly known as Nutanix Acropolis File Services, meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.5.0. Nutanix Files is the Nutanix file server and it currently supports the following protocols: SMB 2.0 SMB 2.1 SMB 3.0 NFS v3 NFS v4 Quite a few new features …
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 .Next On Tour Stockholm 2019
Just a quick note to let you know that today is last day to register for the Stockholm Nutanix .NEXT On Tour event tomorrow 7:th of March which takes place at Münchenbryggeriet. The event brings a really interesting agenda which breaks up in two different tracks after lunch. So no matter if you’re interested in …
Nutanix Calm Update Via LCM
Quick blog post that will cover updating Nutanix Calm via the Nutanix component Life Cycle Manager (LCM) which is available in both Prism Element (PE), the Nutanix Cluster, and via Prism Central (PC). Since Calm belongs to Prism Central we can obviously not upgrade it via PE and must use PC which most of the …
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 Calm Version 2.6 Released
Two days ago, 2019-01-30, Nutanix released their latest version, 2.6, of Nutanix Calm which is the built-in automation and orchestration tool available in Nutanix Prism Central. Calm, as I guess you already know, supports application life cycle management, monitoring & remediation and can provision virtual machines and deploy applications to multiple target platforms such as: Nutanix …
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 …