Quick note to let you know that VMware PowerCLI version 12.3 was released last week, to be more specific April 8th. I trust most of you knows that PowerCLI is built is a tool built on Windows PowerShell and used for command line management and or scripting purposes. The new release is 12.3 is a …
VeeamOn May 2021
For those of you who haven’t seen it already – this years virtual VeeamOn is scheduled to take place in May and more specifically: 25-26 May for Americas & EMEA 26 – 27 May for APJ As usual the agenda is packed and this time with 35+ sessions to chose from during the two days …
Runecast Analyzer v5.0 Released
Two days ago, 2021-03-31, Runecast released a new major version of their software, Runecast Analyzer, meaning the latest and greatest version is now 5.0. The 5.0 version comes with a huge focus on Microsoft Azure. You can monitor/scan your Azure environment to make sure it adheres to best practices plus the CIS Benchmarks security standard. …
Nutanix ERA Security
As the blog post heading reveal this one will be about Nutanix Era security. Sine i trust most of my readers now know what Era is and can to for your business i will not describe the solution but instead dive into the topic right away. Commonly discussed topics in regards to security i have …
Take Veeam Quiz & Win An Apple Watch
About 4.5 years ago Veeam gave my blog readers a chance to win a Fitbit Charge HR or Ondo Air levitating speakers depending on your preferences as per this blog post. After the recent release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11 they have decided to give you a chance to win an Apple Watch by …
ZertoCON 2021 – Unlock Continuous Cloud Protection
The yearly Zerto CON will be a virtual event just the way it was back in 2020. I have, during the past year, come to enjoy the virtual events more and more and i guess the biggest part is that i have learned how to actually set aside time and not just attend a vitrual …
Eight years as a blogger
Today, 2021-03-13, i celebrate (or whatever i’m doing) eight years as a blogger. During past 12 months around 60 blog post have been created meaning total number of live blog posts are now in the 820 range. Apart from creating blog posts i have made a few changes to the blog including: Enable SSL – …
Monitor Era Operation Progress – ServiceNow & Era Integration
Almost same heading a for another blog post Monitor Era Operation Progress – Calm & Era Integration 🙂 the objective for this blog post is exactly the same meaning monitor Era operations from an overlying Era consumer. The Era consumer in this case is ServiceNow and not Calm. In this blog post i will share …
Nutanix AOS 5.15.5 & AHV 20190916.410 Released
Yesterday, 2021-03-03, the fifth long term support (LTS) version of AOS 5.15 was released meaning the latest LTS version available is now 5.15.5. Read more about difference between LTS & STS (Short Term Support) here. AOS 5.15.5 comes with AHV version 20190916.410 and can be managed with any of the following Prism Central versions: pc.2021.1.0.1 …
Set VMware ESXi Date & Time Using esxcli
Yesterday, 2021-03-02, i ran into a problem where one ESXi server didn’t sync it’s time with the NTP server configured. It was lagging approximately 2h, 22min & 15sec. Current UTC was 07:51:55 when it should have been 10:13 The well known command esxcli is your friend if doing this via command line via SSH. trying …
Nutanix Calm Version 3.2 Released
Last week a new version of Nutanix Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (Calm) software was released meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.2…. Same as with Calm 3.0 the 3.2 version comes with 9 new features and a lot of enhancements to existing features. My top one new feature is…………………. Calm Data Back up …
Atom Text Editor Won’t Start On MacBook
So the other day i ran into a problem when the graphical text editor of my choice for Macbook, Atom, didn’t start. I’m still using macos catalina 10.15.7 and the Atom version is 1.54.0. Atom didn’t completely launched when i try to start it and it didn’t matter if i started it via the Dock, …
Nutanix ERA – How To Protect Database Data v2
A while ago i posted a blog about how to protect database data for DBs managed by Era. The blog post was based on a Nutanix public document i put together and it can be found here here This is just a short blog post to let you know that the Nutanix document has since …
Nutanix Files 3.8 Released
A new version of Nutanix Files (Files), formerly knowns and Nutanix Acropolis File Services (AFS), was released yesterday 2021-01-25 which means the latest version available is 3.8 and requires minimum AOS versions 5.15.3 or 5.19. Files is Nutanix scale out file server which let’s you share files within in a controlled and secured manner. Nutanix …
Heads Up! – New Nutanix Era Version 2.1 PostgreSQL User and Group Requirements
Quick note to let you know about a PostgreSQL related change that has been implemented in Nutanix Era 2.1. As you know Era comes with a PostgreSQL software profile including VM built on CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 and PostgreSQL version 10.4. This Era software profile is not affected meaning this note is addressing the PostgreSQL …