Yesterday, 2018-06-06, Nutanix released a new version of its Acropolis Operating System (AOS) meaning the latest and greatest version is 5.6.1 for the AOS Short Term Supported (STS) version. The most recent version of the Long Term Supported (LTS) version is 5.5.2 which you can read more about here.. The following products and features were …
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Meet NPX 012 – Tim Buckholz
Name: Tim Buckholz NPX Number:012 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: tbuckholz.wordpress.com Twitter: @tbuckholz Virtualisation background: I first got into virtualization back in the mid 2000s, working with GSX, workstation, and ESX 2 as my company virtualized a large chunk of our existing environment. Over the years I’ve worked with most versions of esx and hyper-v, a fair amount …
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 …
Meet NPX 015 – Bruno Sousa
Name: Bruno Sousa NPX Number:015 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @bsousapt Virtualisation background: My very first exposure to an “enterprise ready” virtualization was with ESX 3.5 on HP servers to virtualize nothing else then…Oracle 8 and Oracle 9 workloads for a medical research center in Porto (my hometown) , Portugal. After this experience I had the …
Meet NPX 016 – Crescenzo Oliviero
Name: Crescenzo Oliviero NPX Number:016 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @CrexOliviero Virtualisation background: started to play with VMware in 2008 for backing it up through proxies… then to architect sizing. I started also playing with Solaris zones in late 2003 that could be considered a virtualisation approach or latest docker ancestor. Storage Background:use to work as …
Meet NPX 017 – David Quinney
Name: David Quinney NPX Number:017 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: www.cloudypolitics.com Twitter: @quinney_david Virtualisation background: I started out with with Microsoft virtualization before VMware, first with Virtual Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003 and then Hyper-V around 2009 when I was working for a large managed service provider based in New Zealand. I then switched to the …
Nutanix Prism Central – Enable Self Service & Apps
This blog post will be an updated version of 2017 Nutanix Self Service Portal Part I – Preparation & Initial Configuration which was created before Calm got integrated in Prism Central which happened with the release of Prism Central and AOS 5.5. Follow the below steps to enable the Self Service and Apps (Calm) functionality in …
Deploy Nutanix Prism Central Via Prism Element
There are many ways to deploy your Nutanix Prism Central (PC) VM and this blog post will cover, in my opinion, the easiest one. Follow the below steps to deploy your PC from a Prism Element (PE) meaning an existing Nutanix Cluster. In my case it is an AHV based Nutanix cluster. Log in to …
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 …
Nutanix Prism Central Version 5.7 Released
Yesterday, 2018-05-01, Nutanix released a new version of Prism Central (PC) meaning the latest and greatest version is now PC 5.7. This release is target for organisations using Calm since development focus for this release has been the Calm component. Two really great new features in this 5.7 are: Nutanix Calm supports GCP. Nutanix Calm …
Create & Configure Nutanix Cluster via command line
Updated 2018-04-27: Updated Set new Nutanix Cluster Admin Password Updated 2018-01-18: Updated Directory Authentication section to match AOS 5.5 requirements. Updated 2017-09-06: Updated to include local PRISM users Updated 2017-05-31: Updated to include Network Visualization Updated 2017-05-31: Updated to include configure External Data Services IP address Updated 2017-05-31: Updated the section where a new container is created and …
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 …
Meet NPX 014 – Derek Seaman
Name: Derek Seaman NPX Number:014 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: derekseaman.com Twitter: @vDerekS Virtualisation background: I’ve been working with VMware since early 2009, when I was working at Lockheed Martin on a large Government project. A few years later I moved to Qualcomm, where I earned my VMware Certified Design Expert – Datacenter Virtualization (VCDX-DCV #125) certification. …