Yesterday, 2018-03-08, VMware released a new version of VMware vCloud (vCD) meaning the latest and greatest version is now 9.1. Below are some of the new features and functionality included in the new release: Dedicated HTML 5 Provider Portal – No more Flex unless you want to use it since it is still available. Improved …
Install Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0.1 and VMware PowerCLI 10.0.0 On macOS
Really good news for all Linux & MacBook users out there. A while back Microsoft released Microsoft PowerShell for Linux and MacOS and yesterday, 2018.02.28, VMware released VMware PowerCLI 10.0.0, formerly known as vSphere PowerCLI, and it also supports both platforms. To be able to run VMware PowerCLI on your MacBook you first need to …
Nutanix Community Edition Installation On Intel NUC
Finally it’s time to install my Intel NUC which I received by Intel and Nutanix a while ago. This is very much appreciated so big thank you Intel & Nutanix. It is an Intel NUC model NUC6i7KY with: Intel i7-6770HQ CPU with 4 Cores a 2.60GHz 32 GB Memory 2 x Crucial MX300 525GB SSDs If …
Runecast – new VCDX56 blog sponsor
I’m happy to announce Runecast as a new VCDX56 blog sponsor. Runecast was founded back in 2014 and they exposes latent issues within your VMware vSphere based virtual environment to prevent system impact. The Runecast analyzer connects to VMware vCenter Server and correlates the configuration and log files with: Best Practices Known issues Security auditing rules. The system …
List Nutanix AHV Physical Memory Configuration
A question I have received quite a few times when Nutanix customers wants to add memory to their AHV hosts is how they can see the following: DIMM Size in use DIMM Locator in use DIMMs Bank Locator in use You can get some of this information from the out of band management interface (IPMI, …
VMware vSphere 5.5 End Of General Support
Just a quick blog post for those of you who might have missed it and are still running VMware vSphere 5.5 that it will be end of general support September 19, 2018. vSphere 5.5 was released September 22, 2013 so it has been around for almost 5 years when the general support ends. The same end …
Pivotal Container Service (PKS) General Available
During VMworld 2017 VMware and Pivotal announced Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which I wrote about here.Just wanted to let you know that VMware PKS 1.0 is now general available. PKS is Kubernetes, which is the most common/used open-source systems for orchestrating containers offering to my knowledge, plus day 1 & day 2 operations combined together. PKS initially …
Nutanix .Next 2018 New Orleans Blogger Pass Available
The Nutanix .Next Community continues to giving you a chance to get a free blogger pass for its user conferences. The blogger pass provides you with a complimentary conference pass which is all you need to get access to the cool stuff happening during the event. This year, the annual US based .Next Conferenc will …
Nutanix AHV & Promiscuous Mode
A question I have received a few times is if AHV supports promiscuous mode or not. The easy answer is YES it does. However there is a huge difference in how promiscuous mode works for AHV compared to another well known hypervisor VMware ESXi. AHV uses Open vSwitch for network communication in most cases, there …
Nutanix Xtract For VM Version 1.1.2 Released
In October 2017 I wrote a blog post about Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines which provides almost no VM downtime during the migration from vSphere ESXi to Nutanix AHV. Now, 2018-01-30, version 1.1.2 has been released and it comes with a few enhancements which can/will make your even life easier when migrating VMs to Nutanix …
Migrate Nutanix AHV Network Traffic From 2×1 Gbps NICs To 2×10 Gbps NICs
A while back a Nutanix AHV customer implemented 10 Gbps at their remote office so we had to change the 2×1 Gbps NICs used by their Nutanix cluster to 2×10 Gbps NICs. This blog post will cover the steps taken to achieve that and it will include Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) and Prism configuration and …
Nutanix Xtract For Database Version 1.5 Released
In October 2017 I wrote a blog post about Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines. In addition to migrate virtual machines to the Nutanix hypervisor AHV there is also an option to perform database migrations using Nutanix Xtract for DBs which was also GA back in 2017. Xtract for DBs discovers all instances in an infrastructure, …
Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 Released
Vembu just released a new version of their Vembu BDR Suite meaning the latest release is version v3.9.0. Focus in this version has been in the following areas: Data Restore Security Storage In addition to these enhancements it is now also possible to schedule and run Pre and Post backup scrips via a wizard available …