Two days ago, 2019-01-30, Nutanix released their latest version, 2.6, of Nutanix Calm which is the built-in automation and orchestration tool available in Nutanix Prism Central. Calm, as I guess you already know, supports application life cycle management, monitoring & remediation and can provision virtual machines and deploy applications to multiple target platforms such as: Nutanix …
VMware vCenter Server 6.7 U1b Released
Almost exactly 3 months after VMware released vSphere 6.7 U1 an update for vCenter Server, version 6.7 U1b, had been released as of 2019-01-18. This is a bug fix release and includes some critical fixes, including e.g: If you remove a Virtual Machine (VM) folder from the inventory using the vSphere Client, formerly known as the …
Nutanix SCOM Management Pack Version 2.3 Released
A few days back, 2019-01-10, Nutanix released a new version of its Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Pack meaning the latest version is now version 2.3. The latest release now supports SCOM 1807 which is pretty good. In addition to this, there are also some enhancements and bug fixes. Supported Software Windows Server 2016 …
Altaro VM Backup Version 8 & More Released
Altaro which provides backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi based virtual environments has released a new version of their VM Backup software and it’s now version 8. Two major enhancements for this version are: WAN Optimized Replication – This includes replication of Microsoft Hyper-V & VMware ESXi based virtual machine to …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.3
Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. This release includes fixes to runtime output and to VM annotation/description filed including a comma sign. Example of script runtime output. Script still uses either Prism Element (the actual NutanixCluster) as source or both Prism Element and Prism Central. When using Prism Central …
VMware Fusion Keyboard & Mouse Not Working
After upgrading my MacBook to latest macOS (Mojave version 10.14) i encountered a problem with my VMware Fusion (version 10.1.3) VMs. Was about to write a small problem but it’s really a big problem since both the keayboard and mouse stopped working:) I couldn’t do anything within my VMs apart from e.g. sending Ctrl-Alt-Del via …
Application open for VMware vExpert 2019
Yesterday, 2019-01-07, VMware opened up the application for the VMware vExpert program 2019. Same as last year there are four different paths you can select from when applying for your vExpert title. Evangelist Path Customer Path Partner Path VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) For those of you who are new to the VMware vExpert program i …
Meet NPX 019 – Jason Yeo
Name: Jason Yeo NPX Number:019 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: vchips.imutroom.com Twitter: @jasonyzs88 Virtualisation background: VMware practitioner since 2010 (VCP4). Became an EUC specialist and attained VMware VCDX#180 in 2014. Storage Background:Was an enterprise SAN admin circa 2003, handling several HP XP storage with Brocade and McData fabrics Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Designing and Deploying Nutanix since 2015 Future …
Meet NPX 018 – Fouad EL Akkad
Name: Fouad EL Akkad NPX Number: 18 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: www.vRoomBlog.com Twitter: @vRoomblog Virtualisation background: I was working as the main engineer for a large virtualized organization (several thousand VMs) and started from the version of VMware vSphere 4.0 to 6.5, since September 2017 I join Nutanix as Senior System Engineer for Morocco. Storage Background: As the main …
Runecast Analyzer v2.5 Released
Runecast Analyzer version 2.5 has been released and it comes with a strong focus on End User Computing. All of you running VMware Horizon will find this new release very useful since it includes the following capabilities: Scanning against and reporting of known VMware Horizon issues from the VMware knowledge base and shows you how …
Nutanix Support For OpenStack Queens Release
A while back, actually during Nutanix .Next event in London 2018, Nutanix released support for the OpenStack Queens release. When I scheduled the post to be published I for some reason chosed 2019-11-29 and not 2018-11-29 so it’s a bit delayed:) The new release once again proves that Nutanix is taken the OpenStack path seriously …
Remove GCP Virtual Machine External IP Via Nutanix Calm
A few weeks ago I was in a project that used Nutanix Calm to deploy virtual machines (VMs) on-premises as well as in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Since the customer had a direct network connection to GCP they wanted to remove the VM external IP address to make sure their VMs can only connect to …
Vembu BDR Suite v4.0 Released
Vembu Technologies, also known as just Vembu, has released version 4.0 of their flagship product BDR which is a suite of products that provides Backup & Restore plus Disaster Recovery. There are some pretty nice new features in version 4.0, e.g: New Credentials Manager Hyper-V Failover Cluster Support Checksum Based Incremental Tracking for Hyper-V Can …
Nakivo Version 8.1 Released
NAKIVO recently released a new version of their Backup & Replication product meaning the latest version is now 8.1. This is a dot release and it comes with two new features and a bunch of improvements. New features includes: Policy-Based Data Protection Create policies for the data protection processes and have VMs matching the policies protected …
Nutanix Files 3.2 Released
Yesterday, 2018-12-04, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Files, formerly known as Nutanix Acropolis File Services, meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.2.0. As you might already know Nutanix Files is a file server supporting the following protocols: SMB 2.0 SMB 2.1 SMB 3.0 NFS v4 Apart from including bug fixes the …