Well time flies and today 13 March 2017 I have been a blogger for 4 years. I’m still using the blog quite a lot for my own documentation purposes and focusing on the architectural and technical challenges I’m facing during my daily work. I published 84 new blog posts last year meaning there are now a …
Send F Key to VMware Fusion Via MacBook Keyboard
So I figure I’ll finally write this down. Since i start using a MacBook back in 2010 i also switched from VMware Workstation to VMware Fusion. What I’m constantly forgetting since I’m not using it that much is how to press F keys in Fusion based VMs. I can say that 90% of the cases when I …
Win A Trip To VeeamON 2017
A while back I wrote about the Veeam user conference VeeamON which you can read more about here. For those of you who have not yet got the information I just wanted to let you know that Veeam has decided to give away a free trip to the VeeamON conference. The prize includes the following: Round-trip Flight to New Orleans …
VMware vCenter Server 6.0 U3 & ESXi 6.0 U3 released
A few days ago, 2017/02/24, VMware released vCenter Server 6.0 Update 3 and ESXi 6.0 Update 3. Both vCenter Server 6.0 U3 and ESXi 6.0 U3 now includes upport for TLS v 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. For ESXi it is enabled by default and can be configurable with 6.0 U3. For vCenter Server 6.0 U3 the …
Change AHV Based Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) RAM
A few days ago i changed Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) Memory configuration for a customer. There is a Nutanix KB about this which can be found here here but since it includes manual steps i figure i create a script which you can run from the AHV host. This blog post is divided into the following sections: …
Set Nutanix AHV Timezone
——————————————————————————————– Updated 2019-09-18 Important – This blog post is obsolete if you’re using an AOS version newer than 5.0 meaning pretty much everyone these days. Do not set AHV time zone anymore. ——————————————————————————————– Orginal blog post: A question I have received multiple times since Nutanix released their hypervisor AHV, formerly known as Acropolis Hypervisor, is …
VMware vCloud Director 8.20 Released
Yesterday, 2017-02-21, VMware released a new version of vCloud Director (vCD) which is now version 8.20. As you all know vCD has been focusing on service providers since a few years back but since I still work with a few service providers I’m using it from time to time. There are quite a few changes/improvements …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting
While I was visiting a customer the other week we started to talk about VM reporting for Nutanix AHV and what we can do. There are several options to get the information required e.g. via REST API, ncli, acli, PowerShell and so on. Since this customer runs no Windows based VMs or physical workstations we …
Vembu BDR Suite v3.7.0 Released – Free Version Included
Vembu just released Vembu BDR Suite v3.7.0 and it comes with quite a few enhancements including e.g.: Multitenancy for both Vembu BDR and Vembu OffsiteDR servers. Good enhancement for e.g. service providers and based on role based access control the separate customers can manage and monitor their backup jobs. New backend database. PostgreSQL has replaced MongoDB and …
Need a Nutanix .Next Washington 2017 Blogger Pass
Updated 2018-09-09: Now you can win a blogger pass for the .Next event in Nice November 7-9 2017. Read more about that here. Unless you haven’t already seen and/or applied I wanted to let my fellow blogger friends out there know that it is possible to apply for a Nutanix .Next user conference in Washington blogger pass. Nutanix …
Nutanix AOS 5.0.1 & more updates released
Today, 2017-02-14, Nutanix released an AOS (Acropolis Operating System), formerly known as NOS (Nutanix Operating System) update meaning it is now at level 5.0.1. In addition to the AOS release there has been a few additional releases for PRISM Central 5.0.1 and Metro Witness 5.0.1. AOS 5.0.1 Its a maintenance release and include fixes in …
Nutanix OpenStack Virtual Machine Version 2.1.4 Released
A few days ago, 2017-02-02, Nutanix released a new version of their OpenStack Virtual Machine (OVM) so the current version is now 2.1.4. There are quite a few enhancements but one specifically I wanted to let you know. It is now possible to to configure the OVM in a High Availability mode This is excellent news …
Nutanix Prism Element, Prism Central & Prism PRO
Just wanted to share an excellent Nutanix Prism Element (also known as Prism), Prism Central & Prism Pro video presentation by my Nutanix colleague Marc Malotke. A few words from Marc about the video: Prism not only allows you to manage your datacenter from a single pane of glass, it also removes risk from your future …
VMware vExpert 2017
Just received a notification that i have been awarded with the VMware vExpert title for 2017. The current vExpert count is 1 472 people and it was the fifth year (2013-2017) I was awarded with the title. Read more about the VMware vExpert 2017 Announcement on the VMware official blog All VMware vExperts are listed in …
VMware vCenter Server & ESXi 6.5.0a released
Just a short blog post for you who might have missed that a few days ago, 2017-02-02, same time as VMware released NSX version 6.3.0 they also released: vCenter Server 6.5.0a ESXi 6.5.0a The only purpose of this A release for vCenter Server was to add support for NSX 6.3 and the same goes for ESXi …