OpenStack – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Nutanix Support For OpenStack Queens Release

magander — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:11:23 +0000

A while back, actually during Nutanix .Next event in London 2018, Nutanix released support for the OpenStack Queens release. When I scheduled the post to be published I for some reason chosed 2019-11-29 and not 2018-11-29 so it’s a bit delayed:) The new release once again proves that Nutanix is taken the OpenStack path seriously …

Nutanix Support For OpenStack Pike Release

magander — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:22:09 +0000

Happy to announce that Nutanix has released support for the OpenStack Pike version which was released second half of 2017 and will be maintained to at least 2019-03-03 according to Openstack.Org. There are two new main features included in the support for the Pike release apart from the obvious Pike driver support: Support to select …

VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.1 Released

magander — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:29:05 +0000

During VMworld 2018 VMware released VMware Intergrated OpenStack (VIO) version 4.0 which you can read more about here. Now, released 2018-01-18, it is time for an update meaning the newest version of VIO is 4.1. The new version brings a bunch of new features e.g.: HTML5 client support Support for VMware: vSphere 6.5 Update 1 …

Nutanix vRealize Automation Reference Architecture v3.0 Released

magander — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:45:23 +0000

Happy to let you know that the latest VMware vRealize Automation on Nutanix Reference Architecture is available for download. Most recent version is now 3.0 and it includes the following software versions from Nutanix and VMware. vRealize Automation 7.3 vSphere 6.5 Nutanix AOS 5.1 vRealize Automation is a framework, multiple infrastructure like components required, for …

Nutanix OpenStack Virtual Machine Version 4.0 Released

magander — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:02:33 +0000

A few days ago, 2017-09-20, Nutanix released a new version of their OpenStack Virtual Machine (OVM) so the current version is now 4.0. There major enhancement with this version is that it includes Acropolis OpenStack Newton driver. The follow software was also release same time as the new OVM: Nutanix drivers (in rpm format) meaning …

VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Announced

magander — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:22:35 +0000

VMware Intergrated OpenStack (VIO), which is a VMware supported OpenStack distribution has been around for a few years. It built on the OpenStack Ocata release and it runs on top of the VMware SDDC and it offers the following capabilities/meet the following use cases: Implementing a Developer Cloud Running Containers Leveraging Network Virtualization (VMware NSX) The …

Nutanix OpenStack Virtual Machine Version 2.1.4 Released

magander — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 05:24:51 +0000

A few days ago, 2017-02-02, Nutanix released a new version of their OpenStack Virtual Machine (OVM) so the current version is now 2.1.4. There are quite a few enhancements but one specifically I wanted to let you know. It is now possible to to configure the OVM in a High Availability mode This is excellent news …

Nutanix vRealize Automation Reference Architecture v2.0

magander — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:49:00 +0000

In April last year i wrote a blog post about the release of Nutanix vRealize Automation reference architecture which you can find here. A few weeks ago version 2.0 of the document was released and there are quite a few changes which you might have seen in the blog post Nutanix AHV, OpenStack & vRealize …

Nutanix OpenStack Part IV – Image Management

magander — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:13:41 +0000

This will be the forth part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series and it will cover the OpenStack Glance Image service. The following blog posts has been released so far: Nutanix OpenStack Part I – Deployment Nutanix OpenStack Part II – Project & User Management Nutanix OpenStack part III – Network Management It’s now time to …

Nutanix OpenStack Part III – Network Management

magander — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:03:58 +0000

This will be the third part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series and it will cover the OpenStack Neutron network service. The following blog posts has been released so far: Nutanix OpenStack Part I – Deployment Nutanix OpenStack Part II – Project & User Management It’s now time to create two networks that can be used …

Nutanix AHV, OpenStack & vRealize Automation

magander — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:10:31 +0000

There has been a lot of discussions lately around vRealize Automation (vRA) and AHV, formerly known as Acropolis Hypervisor, integrations and if it possible to manage AHV based virtual machines (VMs) via vRA. As many of you already know Nutanix has released its own OpenStack solution that manages AHV objects. The OpenStack solution consists of a single …

Nutanix OpenStack Part II – Project & User Management

magander — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 06:55:31 +0000

This will be the second part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series. The first one was about the Deployment and can be found here. Now when we have the solution up and running it’s time to create the Projects needed and for those of you who have never worked with OpenStack a project can be …

Nutanix OpenStack Part I – Deployment

magander — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:46:09 +0000

This will be the first blog post in a series that will cover the Nutanix OpenStack solution and what could be better than starting with the deployment. I will not spend much time explaining the architecture but i’ll mention the three main components in the Nutanix OpenStack solution: Acropolis OpenStack Services VM (OVM) – This …