Name: Jonathan Kohler NPX Number: 003 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: vdoogle.wordpress.com Twitter: @JonKohler Virtualisation background: Health Care – Mission/Life Critical app BCA virtualization, and DC/Infra consulting. Storage Background: Multi-PB EMC environments, NetApp, EqualLogic Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Nutanix XCP Future of HCI and other emerging technologies: Good question, I don’t have a crystal ball, but I …
vCenter Server won’t start
This is actually the second blog post with the same name. I had the same problem, vCenter Server didn’t start, about a year ago and you can read that blog post here. This blog post applies to vCenter Server 5.5.0 build 2442329 and the problem was that the vCenter Server service didn’t start after an unexpected reboot of …
Meet NPX 002 – Lane Leverett
Name: Lane Leverett NPX Number: 002 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @wolfbrthr Virtualisation background: I’ve been doing virtualization solutions since 2006 and ESX 2.5. Primarily focused around server virtualization and VDI solutions and designs with various VARs. Storage Background: Storage has been focused primarily to support virtualization requirements with solutions like EMC, NetApp, …
VMTurbo Operations Manager as SaaS
This is actually really cool, VMTurbo Operations Manager version 5.2 is now available as a Software as a Service offering via Amazon Web Services (AWS). The VMTurbo SaaS is delivered as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is really simple and easy to deploy and the recommended way to monitor your internal data center infrastructure via …
VMware vCenter Server 6.0.0b released
Yesterday, 2015-07-07, VMware released a patch for their vCenter Server 6 and it’s called vCenter Server 6.0.0b. As always, evaluate if the fixes included in a release is required for your environment and if it is the patch can be downloaded here. Some of the issues resolved in this release includes: VPXD SSL certificates might not be migrated after upgrade …
VMware ESXi 6.0.0b released
Yesterday, 2015-07-07, mwMware released a patch for their ESXi 6 and it’s called ESXi 6.0.0b. As always, evaluate if the fixes included in a release is required for your environment and if it is the patch can be downloaded here. Some of the issues resolved in this release includes: NTP package updated Unable to monitor hardware status …
vSphere 6.0 blog – VM Component Protection
During the past weeks i have received a couple of questions about the VM Component Protection (VMCP) feature introduced in vSphere 6.0. The VMCP feature adds another layer of protection for the virtual machines since you can configure different behaviours for different storage related problem such as All Path Down (APD) and Permanent Device Loss (PDL). I know …
Chance to win VMworld 2015 conference pass via Infinio
Today it came to my knowledge that Infinio once more will give away one full VMworld 2015 conference pass. VMworld will be held August 3 – September 3 in Moscone Center San Francisco. Infinio did the same thing last year, which i published a blog post about here, and the promotion is open between July 3, 2015 …
Meet NPX 001 – Josh Odgers
Name: Josh Odgers NPX Number: 001 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://www.joshodgers.com Twitter: @josh_odgers Virtualisation background: Working with VMware as a focus since ~2006 Storage Background: Shared storage experience with a wide range of technologies from EMC, Netapp, IBM, HP since early 2000s with a more NAS focus since 2010. Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Started working with …
vSphere 6.0 – Performance Best Practices Guide Released
This is just a very short blog post but i know that a lot of you have been waiting for the content/topic of this one. VMware recently released an updated version of their popular Performance Best Practices guide and this version addresses vSphere 6.0. You can download the pdf here and by doing so you …
Upgrade to vSphere ESXi 6.0 via Nutanix PRISM
So one of the cool things with the Nutanix PRISM interface is that more and more software components can be managed from this single interface. I created a post a while back where i showed how we can easily upgrade the Nutanix Operating System and you can fint it here. This blog will be about …
Hypervisor resource utilization question
When you determine the amount of resources you need for your virtualised environment you need to include several things such as: Hypervisor CPU requirements Hypervisor RAM requirements Hypervisor disk requirements Hypervisor CPU and or RAM requirement per running VM VM CPU requirements VM RAM requirements On top of this some hypervisors allows for resource oversubscription …
Can’t connect to vCenter Server – connection timeout
So i few days back i ran into a problem while connecting to vCenter Server version 5.5 U2d i have never seen before. Neither the vSphere Web Client or the vSphere Client managed to connect to the vCenter Server. I just received connection timeout messages. I did actually try to login, using the vSphere Client, from the …
vSphere 6.0 Security Hardening Guide
Yesterday, 2015-06-15, VMware released the vSphere 6.0 security hardening guide. I know a lot of you have been waiting for this one so it’s nice that it’s now available. As usual, read through the doc (excel document) and find out the security hardening configuration required for your company and /or your customer. Download the vSphere 6.60 …
Nutanix Erasure Coding
For those of you who runs the Nutanix platform or have seen Nutanix presentations understands that the Nutanix Distributed FileSystem (NDFS) stores data using replication factor (RF) 2 or 3. This means that the file system stores either 2 pieces or 3 pieces of the same data to deliver availability and this is customer decision and configuration. Replication factor …
Nutanix Operating System 4.1.3 released
Updated 2015-07-23: Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.1.4 has been released, read more here. ———————————————————- Yesterday, 2015-06-10, Nutanix released a new version of the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1.3 and even though it’s just a DotDot release from the previous one 4.1.2 i would like to present some of the new things available. If you …