Updated 2020-10-15: Nutanix Multi-Site Private Cloud Architecture document has been released. ——————————————————————————————————————- Happy to announce that the long awaited Nutanix Private Cloud Reference Architecture has been released. This is a document describing what approach (methodology) to use, what to consider/ take into account and what decisions to include when designing a private cloud solution based …
Iperius Backup 7.0 Released
Recently Enter Software released a new major version of their Iperius Backup software meaning the latest version is now 7.0.0. Here are some of the new features and functionalities Incremental VMware ESXi VM replication directly between ESXi hosts without the need for vCenter Server. Incremental & differential Hyper-V backups using recipient change tracking (RCT). Direct …
Set maxOS Catalina Default Shell to Bash
A few days ago i received a company Macbook and while in the process of setting it up i noted that the default shell was set to zsh which is the recommended one from Apple these days. My personal preference has been and still is bash so this will be a quick blog post about …
Enter Company – new VCDX56 blog sponsor
I’m happy to announce Enter Company as a new VCDX56 blog sponsor which is a software development company with over 20 years of IT experience. They are trusted by thousands of companies in more than 160 countries. Iperius Backup, which is their backup and restore solution, can perform incremental and differential backups of virtual machines and much …
Veeam Availability Suite V10 Released
A few days ago, 18:th of February 2020, Veeam released a new version of their Availability Suite so now we are at version 10. There are more than 150 features packed in this release and the most awesome once are covered in the online launch event which is recorded so I recommend you to take …
vRealize Automation & Nutanix Era Integration – Time Machine Snapshot
This integration video follows the same theme, Nutanix Era, as the three previous videos which are available via: ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration – Time Machine Snapshot ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration – Provision a MariaDB Database vRealize Automation & Nutanix Era Integration – Provision a PostgreSQL Database This one is also about the Nutanix …
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Version 9.2 Released
It has only been a few weeks since NAKIVO released previous version of their Backup & Replication product and now it is time again. Pretty impressive innovation phase. Latest release is now 9.2 The 9.2 release is all about backup up & restoring to Office 365. So if you’re looking for a solution to secure your …
Nutanix ERA REST API & API Equivalent Button
No matter what kind of integration work you’re doing one of challenge with many products is to find a well defined API specification. With Nutanix Era, as with many other Nutanix solutions (including e.g. Prism Central, Prism Element) there is a well defined API which you can access via the UI. Just click admin – …
Nutanix .Next On Tour Sweden 2020
Today its about six weeks, until the .Next on tour Stockholm Sweden takes place which is 17:th of March. If you haven’t secured your seat yet there is still some time to get that fixed. During the event you’ll get latest updates around Nutanix and get a chance to meet your industry peers and Nutanix …
Nutanix Erasure Coding (EC-X) – How it works
Nutanix Erasure Coding (EC-X) is one of the storage reduction technologies available in Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) which is basically the Nutanix cluster. It basically takes one or two data copies and create a parity that can be used to recreate the data if required. I have had quite a few questions regarding how …
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Version 9.1 Released
Today, 2020-01-21, NAKIVO released a new version of their Backup & Replication product meaning the latest version is now 9.1. As I guess you’re already familiar with Nakivo can backup the following sources: AHV based VMs AWS EC2 ESXi based VMs Hyper-V based VMs Physical Windows Servers The above is great and covers a great majority …
ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration – Time Machine Snapshot
This integration video follows the same theme, Nutanix Era, as the two previous videos which are available via: ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration – Provision a MariaDB Database vRealize Automation & Nutanix Era Integration – Provision a PostgreSQL Database This one is about using a Nutanix Era feature called Time Machine which provides one-click database …
Nutanix Calm As Default Landing Page in Prism Central & Nutanix Calm Version 2.9.7 Released
Might be my longest blog post headline/title ever:) A new version of Nutanix Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (Calm) software was released yesterday, 7:th of November 2019) leading us up to the newest version being 2.9.7. This version requires Prism Central version 5.11.2 or above. One good thing in the new release is that you have …
Nutanix ERA 1.2 Released
Yesterday, 2020-01-02, Nutanix released a new version of its database management & data copy solution, Nutanix Era, meaning latest and greatest version is now 1.2. There are enhancements and or new features in the following areas: Era Server Oracle PostgreSQL SQL Server One feature that I know, coming from an infrastructure background, will be much …
vRealize Automation & Nutanix Era Integration – Provision a PostgreSQL Database
So following up on the previous ServiceNow – Nutanix Era Integration blog post with another one but this time vRealize Automation to Nutanix Era integration. Pretty much same thing but this time I’ll create a PostgreSQL database and its associated virtual machine compared to a MariaDB and its associated virtual machine in the previous blog …









