Database as a Service with Nutanix ERA

You might have heard about Nutanix ERA before since it was officially announced back in May 2018 in the Nutanix .Next New Orleans time frame. You can read the press release here. Nutanix ERA is a product providing Database as a Service (DBaaS) management and has now been released. It enables you to easily provision database environments …

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Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.10 And More Released

Today, 2018-11-26, Nutanix released the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of its operating system AOS also known as Acropolis Operating System. So that means we are on version 5.10 and since it is an LTS release we can expect it to be supported until late 2019/early 2020 which is pretty good. As usual check …

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Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load Balancer Configuration

This is the fourth blog post about my work with Citrix ADC VPX which, as mentioned before, will be used as a Web Server Load Balancer. All blog posts in this series includes: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load …

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Top vBlog 2018 voting is now open

It’s again that time of the year when you get a chance to let the people behind the blog posts, you’re hopefully reading :), let them know what you think. During last year there was over 1 600 people putting in their votes which is pretty amazing. The man putting it all together is as …

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Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.2

Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. Two new columns are included in this version: VM Description vNUMA Configuration The VM Description information is available via Prism Element (Nutanix Cluster) but the vNUMA Configuration information is only available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if you want …

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Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration

This is the third blog post about my work with Citrix ADC VPX which, as mentioned before, will be used as a Web Server Load Balancer. All blog posts in this series includes: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load …

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Install Apache On CentOS

This is the second blog post in my blog series about using Citrix ADC as a web server load balancer. To be able to use the web server load balancer it’s also good to have some web servers…. All blog posts in this series: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial …

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Spinbackup – new VCDX56 blog sponsor

I’m happy to announce a Spinbackup as a new VCDX56 blog sponsor. Spinbackup is a cloud cybersecurity and cloud-to-cloud backup solutions provider for SaaS data. The deliver solutions in the following areas: Automated Ransomware Protection Business Risky Apps Audit Blockchain Powered Single Sign-On (in progress now) Cloud-to-Cloud Backup Disaster Recovery Data Migration Picture borrowed from Spinbackup official …

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Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.9.1 And More Released

Yesterday, 2018-10-31, Nutanix released a new Short Term Support (STS) version of AOS meaning the latest version is 5.9.1. The other release train of AOS is Long Term Support (LTS) with AOS 5.5.7 as the most recent release. AOS 5.9.1 comes with enhancements and bug fixes in the following areas AHV-Management Data Protection Flow Infrastructure …

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Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV

In an upcoming project we will use Citrix ADC VPX (formerly known as NetScaler ADC or Citrix NetScaler or … ) appliance as Web Server load balancer. Based on that I deployed Citrix ADC VPX version NS12.1: Build 49.23.nc in my lab today to prepare the auto, via REST API, configuration needed when deploying and decommission …

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Windows Server 2019 in Action Via Altaro

Just a quick note to let you know that Altaro will host a Microsoft Windows Server 2019 webinar November 8:th 2018. The last, WS2019, webinar by Altaro had over 4,500 IT pros registering for the event. Feedback gathered from that webinar and the most popular features will now be discussed and tested live by Microsoft …

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Nutanix Prism Central – Configure Apps (Calm) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Updated 2018-10-23: Added information about GCP Compute Engine API and the GCP account privileges/Role assignment required. ——————————————————————————————— One of the new features included in the Nutanix Prism Central (PC) 5.7 UI is the option to connect the Apps (Calm product) section to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and manage your workload. This blog post will cover the PC …

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Apply for Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2019

It’s this time of the year one again. In case you have missed it you can apply for the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) program until November 9, The announcement of the new members will take place in December 2018. As with any champion program it comes with benefits for the selected members and here are …

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Nutanix AOS Version 5.5.7 Released

Today, 2018-10-18, Nutanix released a new dot dot release of AOS. It’s a Long Term Support (LTS) release meaning the latest and greatest LTS is now 5.5.7. As mentioned before Prism Central and AOS are no longer released same time but e.g. Prism Central version 5.9 can manage the following AOS released: 5.9 through 5.9.0.x 5.8 through …

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VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Released

Yesterday, 2018-10-16, VMware released vSphere 6.7 U1 which includes updates for their two most famous products: ESXi vCenter Server There are a lot of resolved issues in this release and some nice new features as well: New features that are relevant to quite a few of my existing customers are included in number 1-6 below: …

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VMware PowerCLI 11.0.0 Released

Just a quick note to let you know that VMware just released VMware PowerCLI 11.0.0. In my opinion the most valuable updates are support for: Horizon View 7.6 vSphere 6.7 Update 1 vCloud Director 9.5 NSX-T 2.3 There are many more updates and changes in this release such as: New Security module Cmdlets for Host …

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