A few days ago Nutanix released a new version of their automated test framework and benchmark application X-Ray meaning the version is now 2.3. X-ray runs on both Nutanix AHV and VMware ESXi and requires Nutanix AOS 4.5 or later.. Version 2.3 brings quite a few enhancements to the table including e.g.: Customized virtual machine …
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Nutanix Community Edition Installation On Intel NUC
Finally it’s time to install my Intel NUC which I received by Intel and Nutanix a while ago. This is very much appreciated so big thank you Intel & Nutanix. It is an Intel NUC model NUC6i7KY with: Intel i7-6770HQ CPU with 4 Cores a 2.60GHz 32 GB Memory 2 x Crucial MX300 525GB SSDs If …
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 .Next 2018 New Orleans Blogger Pass Available
The Nutanix .Next Community continues to giving you a chance to get a free blogger pass for its user conferences. The blogger pass provides you with a complimentary conference pass which is all you need to get access to the cool stuff happening during the event. This year, the annual US based .Next Conferenc will …
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 …
Nutanix Xtract For Database Version 1.5 Released
In October 2017 I wrote a blog post about Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines. In addition to migrate virtual machines to the Nutanix hypervisor AHV there is also an option to perform database migrations using Nutanix Xtract for DBs which was also GA back in 2017. Xtract for DBs discovers all instances in an infrastructure, …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.0
So this will be the third release, version 2.0, of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. You might be aware of that Nutanix moved Self Service Portal functionality from Prism Element (management of single Nutanix cluster) to Prism Central which can manage many Nutanix clusters (PEs) in AOS version 5.5. What you …
Data Protection for Nutanix AHV Based VMs Version 1.2 Released
Yet another vendor, this time Cohesity, has added functionality to backup virtual machines running on the Nutanix hyperviros AHV. This means the following third-party vendors now support backing up AHV based VMs: Cohesity Commvault Comtrade Software HYCU Rubrik This in addition to the AOS built-in options provides a good backup and restore solution for …
AHV Best Practices Guide Version 4.0 Released
A few weeks ago Nutanix released AOS 5.5 and also a new AHV version and I’m happy to tell you the AHV Best Practices Guide that reflects the new AOS and AHV version is available.The new version ago an updated version of Nutanix AHV best practices guide (BPG) was released meaning the latest version available …
Nutanix X-Ray Version 2.2 Released
Yesterday, 2017-12-14, Nutanix released a new version of X-Ray meaning the latest version is now 2.2. For those of you who have never seen or used X-Ray this is the information about the tool from the Nutanix Portal: “X-Ray is an automated testing framework and benchmarking application for enterprise grade data centers. X-Ray’s testing framework …