Today, 2019-12-17, about two months since the previous Long Term Support (LTS) release of Nutanix AOS, 5.10.8, Nutanix released a new LTS version 5.10.9. Read more about difference between LTS & STS here. No new version of Prism Central was released so you can use any 5.11.x PC version to manage AOS 5.10.9. AOS 5.10.9 comes bundled …
ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration – Provision a MariaDB Database
Never say never again:) It took me about 5 years since I last created a YouTube video but lately I have been recorded a few new once. It’s still with automation/orchestration in focus and the first video will be about ServiceNow to Nutanix Era integration. As you know, Nutanix has an API first approach and …
Nutanix Move 3.4 Released
A new version of Nutanix Move which is the a virtual machine magration tool, which I guess most of you are familiar with, was released today 2019-12-04. This means the latest and greatest version is 3.4. The following new features has been added to the 3.4 release: Set timezone of migrated VMs to the target …
Vembu BDR Suite v4.1 Released
A while ago Vembu Technologies, also known as just Vembu, released version 4.1 of their BDR solution which is a suite of products that provides Backup & Restore plus Disaster Recovery. There are some pretty nice new features in version 4.1, e.g: Integrity Check Management – Option to schedule, previously every 24h, when all or …
ServiceNow UI Freezes During An Order/Request
Lately I have been doing quite a lot of third-party integration to Nutanix Era work meaning driving Era functionality from a layer above, customer service portals. While taking advantage of the ServiceNow Workflow functionality to e.g. run REST API commands to external systems, in my case to Era, the ServiceNow Service Portal page will be …
Nutanix ERA – Upgrade Using Command Line
few days ago I had to upgrade Nutanix Era using command line since remote access didn’t they way it should and I only had ssh access to the Era VM. However, there is a simple process you can follow if the Era VM has connection to portal.nutanix.com from where the Era software will be downloaded. …
Meet NPX 021 – Michael Shin
Name: Michael Shin NPX Number: 021 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: Twitter: MshinNutanix Virtualisation background: – VMWare : I started using VMware since 2010 on ESXi 4.0, when I was first involved in building small hosted VMware cluster for a managed service company. Since then, been working on primarily on Server Virtualization on design / implementation and …
Nutanix Calm Version 2.9 Released
A new version of Nutanix Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (Calm) software was released today, 6:th of November 2019) leading us up to the newest version being 2.9. Version 2.9 comes quite a few new enhancements and features where one of the most requested one I have seen in the field is multi Prism Central (PC) …
Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine High Availability
Approximately four years ago a wrote a two blog post series about Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) which are obsolete so do not refer to the below once for AHV HA functionality: Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part I Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part II Over the years I have …
Nutanix Files 3.6 Released
A new version of Nutanix Files, formerly knowns and Nutanix Acropolis File Services (AFS), was released 2019-10-17 meaning the latest and greatest version is 3.6.0. The following new features or enhancements to existing features are included in latest release: File Blocking by specifying the extension. Applies to files server and or share. SMB message encryption …
VMware vRealize Automation 8 & More Released
For about 1.5 months ago VMware announced vRealize Automation 8 which I wrote about here and yesterday, 2019-10-17, it was finally released. I have yet to download, install and verify if it is an on-premises version of vRealize Automation Cloud as stated during the announcements. Important: Picture borrowed from VMware official web site. Per the release …
Apply for Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2020
The Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) program for 2020 is open now and you got until November 8 to apply. The announcement of the new members will take place in December 2019. The following areas and knowledge will be taken into consideration when the members are selected: Active on social media, blogging and have a desire …
Meet NPX 020 – Dan Alexandru Apostu
Name: Dan-Alexandru Apostu NPX Number: 020 Employer: Global Nutanix Customer Blog URL: Twitter: Virtualisation background: I’ve started working with virtualization technologies in 2005 with VMware Workstation preparing for my university graduation exam. In 2010 I passed VCP3 and as I was working on increasingly complex projects I prepared for and passed the VMware advanced exams for version …
vCenter Server Services Fails To Start After Upgrade To 6.7 U2c
A while back I did a VMware vCenter Server upgrade, version 6.7 to version 6.7 U2c. The upgrade completed successfully but some services including e.g. vmware-vpxd didn’t start. Checking the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) I could see that quite a few services with Startup Type Automatic was not running and service “VMware vCenter-Services” …