A new version, 5.10.3, of Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) and Prism Central was released yesterday, 2019-03-27. Was almost exactly one month since version 5.10.2 was released. 5.10.3 is a Long Term Support (LTS) version and will be available via Nutanix One-Click Update functionality and it brings some really good backend improvements. In addition to …
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition Released
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: …
Nutanix Karbon 1.0 Released
I know many of you have heard of and potentially also used Nutanix Karbon in tech preview over the last x months. For those of you not familiar with Nutanix Karbon it is Nutanix tool to provision, scale and operate Kubernetes clusters. Yesterday, 2019-03-25, Karbon 1.0, which runs as containers in Nutanix Prism Central (PC) …
Top vBlog Results 2018 Are Out
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 …
Nutanix Files 3.5 Released
Yesterday, 2019-03-18, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Files, formerly known as Nutanix Acropolis File Services, meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.5.0. Nutanix Files is the Nutanix file server and it currently supports the following protocols: SMB 2.0 SMB 2.1 SMB 3.0 NFS v3 NFS v4 Quite a few new features …
Nutanix Physical Networking – How Can I Connect Nutanix Nodes
One question I receive on almost a weekly basis is how am I allowed to connect Nutanix Nodes in the same Nutanix cluster via physical switches. Even though there has been no official documentation around this there has been understanding on how to do things meaning keep them as close to each other as possible. …
Nutanix Move 3.0 Released
Yesterday, 2019-03-13, Nutanix released Move version 3.0 and for those of you who never heard about it it’s actually the new name for the good old Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines. One of the most significant improvements in this version is that you can now migrate VMs from Hyper-V to AHV meaning the following sources …
Six years as a blogger
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 …
Nutanix .Next On Tour Stockholm 2019
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 …
WordPress – Change Back To Classic Editor View
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 …
VMware PowerCLI 11.2.0 Released
Just a quick note to let you know that VMware just released VMware PowerCLI 11.2. This dot release comes with quite a few improvements: VMware HCX – New module NSX-T Policy Services support OAuth based connectivity support to vCenter Server – Right now only for GovCloud instances of VMware Cloud on AWS Storage module cmdlets updated …
Nutanix Calm Update Via LCM
Quick blog post that will cover updating Nutanix Calm via the Nutanix component Life Cycle Manager (LCM) which is available in both Prism Element (PE), the Nutanix Cluster, and via Prism Central (PC). Since Calm belongs to Prism Central we can obviously not upgrade it via PE and must use PC which most of the …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.4
Based on some feedback of people actually using the reporting script I have added two more fields in the report for the 2.4 release. The additional reporting metrics are: Categories VM uuid Script still uses either Prism Element (the actual NutanixCluster) as source or both Prism Element and Prism Central. When using Prism Central you’ll …
Nutanix Xtract For VMs Version 2.0.3 Released
Yesterday, 2019-02-04, Nutanix released a new version of its VM migration tool called Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines meaning latest and greatest version is now 2.0.3. For those of you that don’t know, Xtract for VMs is a tool to migrate VMs to Nutanix AHV hypervisor AHV. I know it is a dot dot release but …
Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.7 Released
A short note to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.7 has been release just a few days ago. This release comes with 12 new plugins including 17 new checks which your environment will benefit from. NCC 3.7 requires minimum AOS version 4.7, which you can see here and supports AHV, ESXi, Hyper-V and …