Yesterday, the national day of Sweden 2017-06-06, Turbonimic released a new version of their Hybrid Cloud Management Platform meaning the latest and greatest version is now 5.9. This could as well has been a full release and not just a dot release based on the new capabilities. Now you got a single pane of glass to control all …
This months blog sponsor blog post is published by my relatively new blog sponsor Praim who you can read more about via the Praim partner page. Below is a summary of a Praim customer success story and if you would like to get more information you should download the case study developed in collaboration with Belfast Trust, Caradigm …
A few months ago Nakivo released version 7 of their Backup & Replication software which you can read more about here. Now version 7.1 has been released and it includes support for Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Cluster. There are multiple options available for protecting the VMs running in a Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Cluster including: Protecting every VM …
Just a quick blog post to let you know that Nutanix released a new version of their VirtIO driver yesterday, 2017-05-31, meaning the latest and greatest driver version is now 1.1.1. The most important update to this driver version compared to the VirtIO 1.1.0 version which you can read more about here, is the digitally …
For the fifth time I have been selected by the VMware vExpert team to get a VMworld blogger pass and I would like to send a big thank you to the team. This makes it possible for me to attend the VMworld event in Las Vegas later this year which will be my first visit …
There are quite a few ways to migrate virtual machine (VM) from existing virtualisation solution to a Nutanix solution depending on e.g.: Source hypervisor Target hypervisor Keeping existing hypervisor or changing existing hypervisor. Moving VMs from non Nutanix system to Nutanix system Moving VMs between Nutanix systems. This blog post will cover a specific …
A few days ago, 2017-05-16, VMware released a new version of vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) meaning the most recent version is now 7.3. There are enhancements in quite a few areas and some new pretty good feature I know people are looking for e.g.: Integration with Puppet High availability: …
In addition to the “Veritas NetBackup with Nutanix & vSphere Best Practices Guide Available” which you can read about here there is now a “Veritas NetBackup with Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide” available. The following topics are included in the guide: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Overview In-Guest VM Backup and Restore Component Overview Component Sizing …
This months blog post is presented by Nakivio who will present a single device backup and restore solution. ————————————————————————————– NAKIVO VM Backup Appliance based on QNAP NAS available NAKIVO VM backup appliances based on QNAP NAS combine the below components into a single device which results in less maintenance and smaller footprint. Backup hardware Backup software …
I have previously written a blog post about this years VeeamOn conference held in New Orleans 16-18 May which you can find here. Just wanted to let you know that you can follow the conference via a live stream that will be broadcasted: Wednesday 17 May 09:00-11:00 CST Thursday 18 May 09:11:00 CST These sessions …
Just wanted to let you know that one of my blog sponsors, Altaro will host a “Migrate Virtual Machine To Hyper-V for VMware Administrators” webinar tomorrow May 16 at: Time for EU attendees: (2pm CEST) Time for US attendees: (10am PDT / 1pm EDT) And yes I know that most of my readers runs VMware ESXi …
Got a question a few days ago about how to list number of virtual machines (VMs) per Nutanix AHV host. From the top of my head I can think of two ways: PRISM Script PRISM It’s really simple to either view VMs per AHV Hosts direct in the UI and even export the information to a …
I’m happy to announce a new blog sponsor, Praim, who provides a complete systems that can be used to create and manage powerful, secure, cost-efficient, cloud-ready software and hardware workstations. Praim was founded back in 1987 so they have been around for quite some time and they are now considered as a leading vendor of …
In most of my deployments I need to place the Nutanix Node (AHV, ESXi, Hyper-V) and the Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) on a non default VLAN. This blog post will cover the CVM part and by following the below steps you can easily place a CVM on a specific VLAN and also verify the …
Just wanted to let you know that Veeam and their Service Provider Partners (VCSP) are giving away up to 1 000 USD, 750 EUR or 7 000 SEK (for my Swedish readers) in Cloud Backup and DRaaS services. Before you can take advantage of this really good offer you need to be an existing customer or …