Realized the other day that my Intel NUC with Nutanix Community Edition (CE) was bit outdated, running AOS version 2017.07.20 and AHV version 20170627, so I decided to upgrade it to the latest versions: AOS – 2019.02.11 which is names as LTS (Long Term Support) AHV – 20190211.279 Upgrading Nutanix CE is as easy as …
So back when I started in IT 1999 one of my first jobs was to set up a bind (DNS) server on Linux. Before I was allowed to take on that task I was told to learn the default editor in Linux and UNIX systems, meaning visual editor also known as vi. There are a …
Today, 2019.05-07, NAKIVO will be releasing a new version of their Backup & Replication product meaning the latest version is now 8.5. One major feature added to the 8.5 is support for Nutanix AHV hypervisor. This means Nakivo gives you application aware, image-based & incremental backup options across the following environments: Amazon EC2 Microsoft Hyper-V …
I know that all of you interested in Nutanix are aware of the Nutanix Bible written by the Nutanix guru Steve Poitras. It has been, & continues being since it’s constantly updated, a great source of technical information for as long as I have been interested in and working with Nutanix which is about six years. …
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 …
Just a quick but pretty good piece of information. Veeam, a long time VCDX56, blog sponsor has just released a community edition of their Backup & Replication software. This means you can actually backup a combination, if needed, of 10 virtual machines (VM), cloud instances, physical servers or workstations. With Community Edition you get e.g: …
A blog post dedicated to my blog readers. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTES – MUCH APPRECIATED 15:th of December last year the annual top vBlog voting hosted by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and sponsored by Turbonimic, for the third year in a row, ended and yesterday 21 March the results were announced. The live session can be …
As I have mentioned quite a few times I started this blog to have an online source of notes/instructions and it has now survived 6 years. In the past year I have published 100 new blog posts and there are now 676 live blog posts available here. In the yearly blog post I usually present …
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 …
Yes I did freak out when I first saw the new WordPress Block Editor and it’s still not my best friend. Having a hard time to organise and understand when and how to use all the different blocks available. Looks pretty much like the below figure when I try to write a blog post these …
A few days back, 2019-01-10, Nutanix released a new version of its Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Pack meaning the latest version is now version 2.3. The latest release now supports SCOM 1807 which is pretty good. In addition to this, there are also some enhancements and bug fixes. Supported Software Windows Server 2016 …
Altaro which provides backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi based virtual environments has released a new version of their VM Backup software and it’s now version 8. Two major enhancements for this version are: WAN Optimized Replication – This includes replication of Microsoft Hyper-V & VMware ESXi based virtual machine to …
After upgrading my MacBook to latest macOS (Mojave version 10.14) i encountered a problem with my VMware Fusion (version 10.1.3) VMs. Was about to write a small problem but it’s really a big problem since both the keayboard and mouse stopped working:) I couldn’t do anything within my VMs apart from e.g. sending Ctrl-Alt-Del via …
Vembu Technologies, also known as just Vembu, has released version 4.0 of their flagship product BDR which is a suite of products that provides Backup & Restore plus Disaster Recovery. There are some pretty nice new features in version 4.0, e.g: New Credentials Manager Hyper-V Failover Cluster Support Checksum Based Incremental Tracking for Hyper-V Can …
NAKIVO recently released a new version of their Backup & Replication product meaning the latest version is now 8.1. This is a dot release and it comes with two new features and a bunch of improvements. New features includes: Policy-Based Data Protection Create policies for the data protection processes and have VMs matching the policies protected …
This is the fourth blog post about my work with Citrix ADC VPX which, as mentioned before, will be used as a Web Server Load Balancer. All blog posts in this series includes: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load …