A quick blog post about how to change the Nutanix PRISM UI login screen look and feel. Another setting is the UI contrast which I tell you how to change in blog post Quick Tip – Adjust/Change Prism UI Contrast. Backup to the login screen, based on the cluster purpose I have some different configurations and …
It’s my pleasure to let you know that Turbonomic Cloud Burst Sweepstakes series will give you a chance to win prizes three months in a row starting September 2017. The first one, drawing held 1 September, Turbonomic gives you a chance to win a Microsoft Ignite® full conference pass. Microsoft Ignite® is taking place September 25 – …
Updated 2019-05-13: Including updated links for AOS 5.10.x including supported switches. —————————————————————- This blog post will cover Nutanix Network Visualization which is pretty handy when you need to further increase visibility into your datacenter infrastructure. The network visualization provides e.g. the logical to physical network mapping in Prism including VMs, AHV Hosts and physical switches and …
Yesterday, 2017-07-27, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 1. The release includes quite a few driver updates for ESXi and vCenter Server got a few new enhancements & features which I know a few of my customers have been waiting for such as: External database …
Updated 9/8 – New Metadata JSON file available via Nutanix Portal Two days ago, 2017-07-18, Nutanix released a new version of its hypervisor AHV. The latest and greatest version is now 20160925.71. Acropolis Operating System (AOS) formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 5.1.1.1 is required to run AHV 20160925.71. There are quite a few …
A few days ago, (2017-07-18) Nutanix released a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-In for Nutanix Acropolis File Services (AFS). This means you can now perform top level directories (TLD) actions such as the below once via a Microsoft MMC which you have pointed to the AFS name space: Create top-level directories Delete top-level directories Change …
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Just a quick post to let you know that Nakivo v7.2 beta program will be announced tomorrow Tuesday 18:th July. Version 7.2 will include quite a lot of new features including e.g.: VM Backup Appliance Based on Asustor NAS Improvements to the Job Scheduler Calendar Dashboard Instant Object Recovery for Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL Log …
A while back during a troubleshooting exercise I created a script to list ESXi host VMKernel Interfaces (vmk) with vMotion enabled since some of the ESXi hosts had vMotion enabled on multiple interfaces. The below information is included per ESXi hosts in the script output CSV file: VMHost – ESXi host Name IP – IP …
A few days back I created a vSphere cluster with 32 ESXi hosts and I really didn’t want to add all these hosts using the UI so I decided to put together a short powercli script to manage this. The script that was tested using the following software versions: VMware vCenter Server 6.5 VMware ESXi 6.5 build 5146846 …
Name: Samuel Rothenbühler NPX Number:011 Employer: Amanox Solutions Blog URL: Twitter: @bancswissunique Virtualisation background: Started working with VMware VI 3.5 in 2008 at a VMware customer. Today I work as an architect mainly with VMware vSphere and Nutanix AHV and to a smaller extend with Hyper-V. Storage Background:Storage was my main focus when working for EMC …
So we are 14 hours away from this years US based Nutanix .Next event which will take place June 28 – 30, 2017 at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. I have been in Washington for a few days already and have had some time to catch …
Updated 2020-10-02: Seems to be working for ESXi 7.0 as per blog post comment. Thanks for heads up Jack. ——————————————————————————————————————– A few days back i had problem with the VMware ESXi service sfcbd-watchdog which wouldn’t start on my newly deployed ESX 6.5a (build number 4887370) servers and since the service is used for hardware monitoring …
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A while back i had to change the Nutanix PRISM login screen behaviour to not include the animation of background particles. There are quite a few ways of doing this as described in Nutanix knowledgeable article 1308 This blog post will cover 4 different ways of managing the animation and the reason for this blog …