VeeamOn Virtual December 2018

It is once again time to register for the annual VeeamOn Virtual event which will take place same date as last year meaning 5 December (2018). As I have said before this is a an event which you can participate in from your home office and there is no need for any travel which can be …

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vCloud Director 9.5 Released

About one month ago I wrote about the VMware vCloud Director 9.5 announcement here and today, 2018-10-04, it was officially released. Two things I didn’t mentioned in the release announcement, since I didn’t have any information, were: vCloud Director deployment models. I did mention that it will be changes but not what changes. There are …

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Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.9 And More Released

Yesterday, 2018-10-03, Nutanix released a new version of AOS meaning the latest version is 5.9. The 5.9 release is a Short Term Support (STS) release and will follow the previous mentioned rules for STS. The other release train of AOS is Long Term Support (LTS) with AOS 5.5.6 as the most recent release. AOS 5.9 …

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Nutanix AOS Version 5.5.6 & More Released

Today, 2018-09-25, a new Long Term Supported (LTS) version of Nutanix Acropolis Operating System was released meaning we are now at version 5.5.6 The following products and features were also updated: AHV is now version AHV 20170830.170 Metro Availability Witness is now version 5.5.6 As with AOS 5.5.5 there is no corresponding Prism Central release …

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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 7.5 Released

A few days ago, 2018-04-20, VMware released a new version of vRealize Orchestrator Appliance (vRO), formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO), meaning the latest and greatest vRealize Orchestrator version is now 7.5 (7.5.0) There are some really good news in this release and the below once are the most critical from my point of view: …

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VMware vRealize Automation 7.5 Released

Yesterday, 2018-04-20, VMware released a new version of vRealize Automation (vRA), formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) meaning we have reached vRealize Automation version 7.5.0. I wrote a short blog post about the vRealize Automation 7.5 announcement back in August 2018 which you can read here Improvements and or new functionality in all the below …

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Create CentOS based NFS Share for vCloud Director

Updated 2018-09-20: Not creating partitions on the /dev/sdb disk. Original Post Published: 20 November 2014. —————————————————————————————– It was quite a while ago i had to create a Linux based NFS share for a 2 x vCloud Director (vCD) cell setup. For some reason Windows based NFS shares have been used during my latest vCD implementations. Below …

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Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.1

A new release, version 2.1, of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. I have been asked a few times about how to add information about when a VM was created and it is included in this version. However, the information is available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if …

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Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.8.2 And Much More Released

Today, 2018-08-05, Nutanix released this month AOS version for the short term supported version of Acropolis Operating System (AOS) meaning the highest available release out there is AOS 5.8.2. Below is an important statement from the official Nutanix web site which you can find here. Important: 5.8.2 is a new AOS Feature Short term Support (STS) …

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Nutanix AHV Certified for Production SAP HANA

I trust you have already seen this but i just need to do an extremely short blog post about a major achievement by Nutanix. A few days back the Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) together with the Nutanix hypervisor AHV, yes that’s correct, were certified to run production SAP HANA workloads. A while back Nutanix gained …

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Quick Tip – Add TextBox To A Google Sheet

Took me a few minutes and even though I’ll remember it I just wanted to share how to add a textbox in a Google Sheet. Just typing text in the cells and use “new line” when needed might not be enough in some cases. Follow the below very short and quick steps to add a …

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vRealize Automation Version 7.5 Announced

A few days ago VMware announced a new version of vRealize Automation (vRA) and the new release will expand on the release version 7 and provide a version 7.5 Some of the new and updated features Support for NSX-T on-premises that is on pair with NSX-V including Application Isolation Load balancers On-demand NAT networks On-demand Routed …

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Nakivo Version 8.0 Released

Since you all know it was not a long time ago since NAKIVO released version 7.5 of their Backup & Replication product which you can read more about here. Yesterday, 2018-08-27, it was time again and now it was not a .dot release but a complete new version meaning latest and greatest Nakivo Backup & …

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vCloud Director 9.5 Announced

Almost one year ago I wrote about the vCloud Director (vCD) 9.0 announcement here and a few days ago vCloud Director 9.5 was announced. This means VMware announces 9.5 during the VMworld (a few days earlier but anyway) timeframe this year as well. There are some interesting changes and new features coming along with this release. Haven’t …

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Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.6.1 Released

Quick blog post to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.6.1 was released today 2018-08-22 which is exactly 20 days after previous release. Very good development pace here. You can still run ncc same way as before meaning via: CVM command line by using command ncc health_checks run_all Via PRISM UI -> …

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Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.5.5 & More Released

Unless you haven’t seen already Nutanix released, 2018-08-20, a new Long Term Supported (LTS) version of its Acropolis Operating System meaning the latest and greatest LTS version is 5.5.5. The following products and features were also updated: AHV is now version AHV 20170830.155 Metro Availability Witness is now version 5.5.5 From Nutanix official web site: …

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