Updated 2019-11-01 – This blog post is obsolete, please see Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine High Availability for most recent information. ————————————————————————————————————————————— This is the first blog in a series of blog posts for the Nutanix Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) feature. This feature only comes into play when you run Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) on …
The blog post title should almost include a heads up because this is not something you want to miss unless you don’t have any space available for a really cool home lab:) VMTurbo has decided to give you a chance to win an OpenStack based home lab including the following: OpenStack Juno build VMTurbo 5.2 including …
Last year Nutanix accounted the Nutanix Technical Champion (NTC) program which i blogged about here. Today i received a message that the applications for 2016 are open so if you’re a Nutanix expert that constantly contribute to the community you should apply via this link for NTC before October 26 2015. The following are some …
Updated 2015-10-06 VMware released a patch today that will fix this problem, KB available here ————————— Updated 2015-10-01 Today VMware leased a KB 2133118 for the below described issue. No resolution included but a workaround. ———————— Original post ———————– Today i came across this VMware Communities thread that explains different scenarios where vSphere ESXi 5.5 Update 3 …
So the past weeks i have been involved in design and implementation of VMware Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA) for a customer. I will put toghter a blog post about the solution and the steps taken to implement CPA another time. This very short blog post will only cover one specific scenario we had to …
Name: Michael Webster NPX Number: 007 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://longwhiteclouds.com Twitter: @vcdxnz001 and @WebScale007 Virtualisation background: 15 years of virtualizing business critical applications and Unix to x86 migrations. VMware since workstation beta. Specialty in Monster VM’s. Mainly in large enterprise environments. Storage Background: I’ve designed and implemented storage solutions from most of the main vendors including IBM, …
So this issues was brought to me by my former colleague Toni Lindberg meaning i have not seen this myself. However, i thought it was kind of critical so i wanted to share it with you. So Toni’s customer runs vSphere 6.0 U1 (upgraded from ESXi 6.0 GA with latest patches), Horizon View 6.1.1 and the …
I’m happy to announce that Zerto has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. Short Zerto presentation: Zerto is committed to keeping enterprise and cloud IT running 24/7 by providing innovative, simple, reliable and scalable business continuity software solutions. Through the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform, organizations can seamlessly move and protect virtualized workloads between public, …
Yesterday, 2015-09-16, VMware released vSphere 5.5. Update 3 which includes new versions for: vCenter Server ESXi I have identified at least two problems i have seen that are now resolved in vCenter Server Defined permissions behave differently in vSphere Client and Web Client Moving VMs between the folders is disabled in the Web Client when permission …
So after running Horizon View Linked Clone desktops in a customer environment for the past 12 months we ran into a problem the other day. For several reasons we are still running Horizon View 6.0.1 build 2088845 The error we received was the following: Error during provisioning: View Composer AD Fault: Administrator account used for QuickPre …
Yesterday, 2015-09-10, VMware released vSphere 6 Update 1 (U1) and it contains quite a few enhancements and a lot of resolved issues in the following areas: ESXi API Backup CIM Installation Guest Operating System Security Storage Network Upgrade vCenter Server Upgrade Issues vCenter Single Sign-On Issues Security Issues Storage Issues vCenter Server, vSphere Web Client, …
Name: Bas Raayman NPX Number: 006 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://basraayman.com Twitter: @basraayman Virtualisation background: Started with virtualization while still working at SAP. Worked with VMware, Solaris Zones and the likes, then kicked the VMware stuff into a different gear when I started my job as a vSpecialist at EMC, and obviously while working at Nutanix. Storage …
Yesterday, 2015-09-03, VMware release a new version of Horizon View, version 6.2. There are quite a few enhancements and i know at least a few of them that i can take advantage of more or less immediately e.g.: Windows 10 Windows 10 is supported as a desktop guest operating system Horizon Client runs on Windows …