This will be the second part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series. The first one was about the Deployment and can be found here. Now when we have the solution up and running it’s time to create the Projects needed and for those of you who have never worked with OpenStack a project can be …
The other week i was asked by a customer to change passwords for all service accounts in their environment and this includes but not limited to IPMI admin account, ESXi host root account, Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) nutanix account vCenter Server administrator@vsphere.local account Based on existing customer password requirements for ESXi hosts, 16 characters including only …
A while back i had to manually clean up some Horizon View (version 6.2) Desktop pools that were stuck in the delete state. Reasons for this was failed attempts to delete Horizon View VDIs even though their corresponding vCenter Server VMs were successfully deleted. Below is a print screen from the Horizon View UI showing the state …
This will be the first blog post in a series that will cover the Nutanix OpenStack solution and what could be better than starting with the deployment. I will not spend much time explaining the architecture but i’ll mention the three main components in the Nutanix OpenStack solution: Acropolis OpenStack Services VM (OVM) – This …
Yesterday, 2016-03-15, VMware released a minor patch for vRealize Automation meaning the new version is now 7.0.1. However, even though this is a minor patch it includes quite a lot of fixes and also a few new features and enhancements to existing feature. Three major new enhancements are included: Provides a management agent to automate …
Yesterday, 2016-03-15, VMware released vCenter Server 6.o U2 and ESXi 6.0 U2. There are quite a few good fixes and enhancements and i’ll list a few things i have seen in the field that will be fixed with these releases: Hostd stops responding when esxcli commands are executed using PowerCLI Upgrading vCenter Server from 5.5 …
Today, March 13 2016, it has been three years since i started this blog and it has for sure been a fun ride. The initial idea was to use it as a personal online documentation library or personal usage & share my problems and solutions with anyone interested. I’m still blogging about my day 2 day …
Updated 2018-06-25: Link to blog post to Manage Nutanix Guest Tools For Cloned VMs Updated 2017-11-15:Information about how to check NGT status in Linux based VMs ————————————————————————————— In the Nutanix Guest Tools blog post i explained what Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is and what features it provides. This blog post will focusing on the installation of NGT in …
Time for another guest blog post and this one by my former colleague Johan Blom @ RTSAB who had problem joining a vCenter Server Appliance 6 U1 to a Windows 2012 R2 domain. When trying top join domain from vSphere Web Client the following error was seen: Idm client exception: Error trying to join AD, error code [11], user [XXX\yyy …
As mentioned in the blog post Acropolis Base Software 4.6 released the Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is now general available for virtual machines (VMs) and no longer a tech preview as in Acropolis Base Software 4.5. NGT is a software package distributed and maintained by Nutanix and its purpose is to provide advanced VM management functionality. …
So yesterday, 2016-02-22, Nutanix released Acropolis Base Software version 4.6 formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS). Even though it is just a dot release it contains a lot of feature enhancement, performance enhancements and also new features. This is the next step in the Nutanix journey to make the cloud invisible and it continues to …
I’m happy to announce Systancia as a VCDX56 blog sponsor. Systancia is a software vendor specializing in desktop and application virtualization and secure remote access solutions. Systancia has gradually become a leader on the European market for virtualization solutions and Cloud Computing with a capacity for innovation that has placed it among the global leaders …
A few months back Mark Brunstad, former Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Program manager moved on to another role at Nutanix and the Chris Skinner is now the the new NPX Program Manager. I’m very glad Chris had the time to answer almost the same questions as Mark and below you’ll find the answers. Name: Chris Skinner Employer: Nutanix …
Today i experienced an ESXi host, version 6.0 U1a, being disconnected from vCenter Server. I did try to connect direct to the ESXI host using the ESXi host embedded client, the vSphere Client and SSH without any success. The last attempt was to use the IPMI connection and that screen showed me the following: That is …
The other day after cleaning up Desktop pools and VDIs in Horizon View (version 6.2) and Horizon Composer (version 3.x) i encountered a few items in vCenter Server (version 6) that shouldn’t be there. All Horizon View Desktop Pools and VDI Desktops were deleted but the VMwareViewComposerRelicaFolder created by Horizon View Composer server when using …
Just a quick post if you haven’t seen already. The Nutanix Support app version 1.0.1 is available for download via iTunes here or for Android here. You can use the app for various purposes e.g. Manage support cases View Create Update Get push notifications for your support cases Check documentation including knowledge base articles Check support contract …