The story continues, now Storware with its product vProtect is added to the list of backup & restore solutions with built-in AHV support. Great news for everyone since it give each customer even more freedom of choice. ¨This means the following third-party vendors now support backing up AHV based VMs: Cohesity Commvault Comtrade Software HYCU …
Just a quick blog post about the vCenter Server 6.7 Appliance resource requirements in terms of vCPUs, RAM and Storage per deployment size option. And yes, this is mostly for my personal documentation purposes since the information can also be found in the VMware vSphere 6.7 official documentation, Anyway, the following Deployment Sizes are available: …
Two days ago, 2018-04-17, VMware released a new version of vSphere meaning the latest and greatest version is now 6.7. The core of VMware vSphere is and has always been the management tool vCenter Server and the hypervisor ESXi (which was ESX initially). The best enhancement in the VMware vCenter Server 6.7 release is that …
This blog post will cover the quarantine VM functionality available in Nutanix Flow. This option can be very useful when a VM behaves in a way that it put itself and or other components at risk. Could be virus infected VM, hacked VM and so on. Quarantine configuration Verify quarantine functionality Quarantine Configuration Let’s start …
This is just a quick blog post about how to enable the microsegmentation functionality in the Nutanix Flow framework. Microsegmentation is managed via Prism Central so log in to Prism Central and: Click the Question mark on the right hand side Click New in Prism Central Click Microsegmentation In my case I only got one …
Friday 13:th:) Yesterday, 2018-04-12, meaning almost a year ago since latest version was release VMware released a new version of vRealize Automation. The new vRealize Automation (vRA) 7.4 formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) includes bug fixes, enhancements and new features. My favourite enhancement is: Multitenancy in VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) – Definitely my …
A while back I wrote a blog post about how to Change Nutanix Prism UI Login Screen and this quick tip will be about hos to adjust/change the Prism UI Contrast. This applies to both Prism Element (PE) and Prism Central (PC). Follow the procedure below to manage the Prism UI contrast. Log in to PE …
Last year I wrote a blog post about how to back up the VMware vCenter Server Appliance version 6.5 via PowerShell which you can read here. It somehow slipped my mind to post another important aspect of the backup procedure and that is obviously to delete old backups since you don’t want them to hang …
Name: Derek Seaman NPX Number:014 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: derekseaman.com Twitter: @vDerekS Virtualisation background: I’ve been working with VMware since early 2009, when I was working at Lockheed Martin on a large Government project. A few years later I moved to Qualcomm, where I earned my VMware Certified Design Expert – Datacenter Virtualization (VCDX-DCV #125) certification. …
Yesterday, 2018-03-30, VMware announced a new version of the VMware OS Optimization Tool meaning the latest and greatest version is now b1097. Fixes and enhancements to this version includes: [Template] Issue fix – DELETEVALUE actions do not do anything [Template] Issue fix – DISM commands missing /NoRestart switch [Tool] Issue fix – Switching to another …
Yesterday days ago, 2018-03-29, VMware announced a new version of vRealize Automation (vRA) and the new release will expand on the 7 release meaning the new version will be 7.4. What I have seen so far there is one really nice enhancement that will make life easier for the vRA architects and administrators and that …
Just a quick note to let you know that Nakivo v7.4 beta program is now available. A few of the new features are ( or maybe I should say potential new features since you never knows what reaches GA from a beta, right ) : Automated VM Disaster Recovery Instant File Recovery to Source Self-Backup …
It has already been another year and a few days back, 2018-03-13, I reached five year as a blogger. I published 131 new blog posts last year meaning there are now a total of 576 live blog posts available here. No major changes to the blog layout but I learned how to back out a …
A few days ago Nutanix released a new version of their automated test framework and benchmark application X-Ray meaning the version is now 2.3. X-ray runs on both Nutanix AHV and VMware ESXi and requires Nutanix AOS 4.5 or later.. Version 2.3 brings quite a few enhancements to the table including e.g.: Customized virtual machine …
Very happy to announce I have been awarded with the VMware vExpert title for 2018. This means I have hold the title for six consecutive years 2013-2018. There are quite a few benefits of being a vExpert and some of the most valuable are: 365-day home lab eval licenses for most products for home lab Blogger …