The following blog post will cover the steps taken when I migrated a Hyper-V 2012 R2 VM running Windows Server 2008, called VM01 below, to Nutanix AHV version 20170830.115 and Nutanix AOS version 5.6. Yeah I know that Windows 2008 R2 is not the most modern OS but that was the constraint in this case …
Name: Tim Buckholz NPX Number:012 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: tbuckholz.wordpress.com Twitter: @tbuckholz Virtualisation background: I first got into virtualization back in the mid 2000s, working with GSX, workstation, and ESX 2 as my company virtualized a large chunk of our existing environment. Over the years I’ve worked with most versions of esx and hyper-v, a fair amount …
As you might know there are a few new AOS and AHV versions released since the last AHV Best Practices Guide (BPG) were released. Newest AOS releases are 5.6 and 5.5.2 depending on what release track you have chosen. The Updated AHV BPG still covers the following areas: Nutanix Acropolis Architecture AHV Networking Overview Networking …
Beginning of this year, late January Vembu released a new version of their BDR suite which you can read more about here and now a new minor update, BDR 3.9.1, is available since 2018-05-15.. Even though it is a dot dot release it comes with one major improvement and that is the release of a Standard …
Updated 20180615: The lucky winner of the SmartHalo Cykelnavigator is Håkan Hedman from Visby. Original post: 20180517 Right now, the VeeamON conference is taking place in Chicago, US. and if you can’t be present there is an option to watch the Live stream here. No matter if you attend the VeeamON conference in Chicago, watch the live stream or none …
Name: Bruno Sousa NPX Number:015 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @bsousapt Virtualisation background: My very first exposure to an “enterprise ready” virtualization was with ESX 3.5 on HP servers to virtualize nothing else then…Oracle 8 and Oracle 9 workloads for a medical research center in Porto (my hometown) , Portugal. After this experience I had the …
Name: Crescenzo Oliviero NPX Number:016 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @CrexOliviero Virtualisation background: started to play with VMware in 2008 for backing it up through proxies… then to architect sizing. I started also playing with Solaris zones in late 2003 that could be considered a virtualisation approach or latest docker ancestor. Storage Background:use to work as …
Name: David Quinney NPX Number:017 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: www.cloudypolitics.com Twitter: @quinney_david Virtualisation background: I started out with with Microsoft virtualization before VMware, first with Virtual Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003 and then Hyper-V around 2009 when I was working for a large managed service provider based in New Zealand. I then switched to the …
This blog post will be an updated version of 2017 Nutanix Self Service Portal Part I – Preparation & Initial Configuration which was created before Calm got integrated in Prism Central which happened with the release of Prism Central and AOS 5.5. Follow the below steps to enable the Self Service and Apps (Calm) functionality in …
There are many ways to deploy your Nutanix Prism Central (PC) VM and this blog post will cover, in my opinion, the easiest one. Follow the below steps to deploy your PC from a Prism Element (PE) meaning an existing Nutanix Cluster. In my case it is an AHV based Nutanix cluster. Log in to …
Yesterday, 2018-05-03, Nutanix released a new version of its Long Term Supported (LTS) Release 5.5 family meaning the latest and greatest is now 5.5.2. Don’t mix this with the Short Term Supported (STS) version 5.6 release I blogged about here. In addition Prism Central 5.5.2 and AHV 20170830.120 were also released There are improvements in …
Yesterday, 2018-05-03, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 2. This is little more than two weeks since the vSphere 6.7 release and some features from vSphere 6.7 are backported to 6.5 U2. The most important things is vCenter Server single instance solution meaning no more …
Yesterday, 2018-05-01, Nutanix released a new version of Prism Central (PC) meaning the latest and greatest version is now PC 5.7. This release is target for organisations using Calm since development focus for this release has been the Calm component. Two really great new features in this 5.7 are: Nutanix Calm supports GCP. Nutanix Calm …
Updated 2018-04-27: Updated Set new Nutanix Cluster Admin Password Updated 2018-01-18: Updated Directory Authentication section to match AOS 5.5 requirements. Updated 2017-09-06: Updated to include local PRISM users Updated 2017-05-31: Updated to include Network Visualization Updated 2017-05-31: Updated to include configure External Data Services IP address Updated 2017-05-31: Updated the section where a new container is created and …
Yesterday, 2018-04-26, about five months after the previous release Nakivo Backup & Replication version 7.4 has been released. This release add no more than 11 new features or enhancements including: This release adds no more than 11 new features or enhancements to VMware backup and Hyper-V backup solution including Enhanced AWS EC2 Instance Backup plus: Instant File Recovery …