Just a quick note to let you know that a new version of Nutanix Move was released yesterday, 2019-09-30, meaning latest and greatest version is now Move 3.3. As I guess you know there are two options when running the Move VM, let it run on Nutanix AHV or on VMware ESXi. Good flexibility there. …
vCloud Director 10 Released
As you all know VMware vCloud Director is a cloud provisioning and management tool for Service Providers. A while ago a new version was released and the new version is lucky number 10. Two of the most obvious improvements would be the HTML 5 UI (this applies to providers as well) and the support for NSX-T …
Zerto 7.5 Released
A few days ago, 2019-09-24, Zerto release a new version of its Continuous Data Protection product which means the latest and greatest version is now 7.5. New features and enhancements are made in the following four main categories: Advanced Analytics Journal sizing for storage capacity Throughput Graph so you can clearly see trends for a …
Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition Upgraded
For about two years ago I wrote a blog post about Vembu releasing a free version of their BDR (Backup, recovery & disaster recovery) software which you can read more about here. This is just a quick blog post to let you know three major changes to the free version. Unlimited VM Backup – Full-feature …
VeeamOn Virtual November 2019
Just a quick post to let you know that this years annual VeeamOn Virtual event has changed date from the two previous years. Crazy, right ? 🙂 This year the event will take place 20 November. As mentioned before I like virtual events since I don’t have to travel and can just sit in my …
VMware Tools 11.0 Released
VMware released a new major version of VMware Tools last week, 2019-09-19, meaning the latest and greatest version for Windows and MacOS is no version 11.0. Starting earlier this year VMware added the pvscsi & vmxnet3 drivers to the Microsoft Update Service and by VMware Tools version 11 the VMCI (VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface) driver …
Nutanix ERA 1.1.1 Released
Yesterday, 2019-09-19, Nutanix released a new version of its database management & data copy solution, Nutanix Era, meaning latest and greatest version is now 1.1.1. Apart from fixes which is normally what you put into dot dot releases there are some pretty nice new features and functionality you can take advantage of including: Oracle Support …
Upgrade VMware vCenter Server Appliance Via VAMI
If I’m not completely mistaken VMware introduced the Update vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) using the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) in vSphere 6.0 U1 but don’t hold that against me. Anyway this post will tell you how to go about performing the update which is really simple to do. Just follow the below process …
Understanding Nutanix Node Physical Memory Configuration
I wouldn’t say on a weekly basis, but I receive questions about physical memory configurations, physical memory speed, balanced vs un-balanced memory configurations from time to time. Based on that I have put together a document which you can access via the Nutanix Portal. Things like maximum memory frequency or speed and the number of …
Remediate ESXi Hosts Via vSphere Update Manager Not Working
After upgrading VMware vCenter Server to version 6.7 U2c I ran into a problem with vSphere Update Manager (VUM) when trying to both Check Compliance and Remediate ESXi hosts. After clicking the CHECK COMPLIANCE shown in the above figure I got error: “VMware vSphere Update Manager had an unknown error. Check the events and log …
VMware vRealize Automation XaaS Architect Configuration
Quick blog post about how to enable you to create vRealize Automation Anything As A Service, XaaS, blueprints. This is a follow up blog post to the below deployment & initial configuration once: VMware vRealize Automation 7.6 Deployment Mware vRealize Automation 7.6 Initial Configuration So the only thing left to configure in vRealize Automation (vRA) …
Nutanix AHV Virt-Who Version 1.1 For Red Hat Satellite Available
Guess you are already aware of that a while back Nutanix added AHV to the open source virt-who service through the Nutanix virt-who agent. This means you can now register the Nutanix AHV cluster to your RedHat Satellite Server and provide the following functionality for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure: Automatically create the virtual …
VMware vRealize Automation 8 Announced
VMware announced VMware vRealize Automation 8.0 during VMworld meaning we are out of the 7.X release train. As many of us predicted this release will be built on, same code base, as the existing vRealize Automation Cloud which is a Software As A Service (SaaS) released yearly 2019. The difference between vRealize Automation and vRealize …
VMware vRealize Automation 7.6 Initial Configuration
Following up on the previous vRealize Automation (vRA) deployment blog post I need to take care of the initial configuration before I can start using the vRA virtual appliance (VA). I don’t need any Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities for my work so I’ll skip that which saves me a lot of time during …
Runecast Analyzer v3.0 Released
Runecast Analyzer version 3.0 was released last week, 2019-08-21, and comes with some really nice new features and improvements. Two major improvements are scalability to increase performance and reliability for even the largest VMware environments out there. From a security perspective Runecast 3.0 comes with an API-driven token creation, expiration configuration & editable PCI-DSS security checks. Log analysis has …