Approximately one month ago i wrote a blog post about the Nutanix Community Edition announcement which can be read here. By that time you could sign up for the public bete and i’m now happy to announce that the public beta is available. Get your own CE code by making a comment on this blog …
A few days back, 2015-06-09, VMware released an updated version, 6.2.2 to vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). Yes i totally understand this is a very small update but there are two things i like to point out that i know some of my customer has asked for. The first one is …
I guess many of you are aware of that Nutanix announced Acropolis today and immediately there were a lot of questions about what it is, what features it includes and how you use it. This blog post will focus on just one of the features available in Nutanix Acropolis which is build upon the KVM hypervisor and completely …
A few months ago i wrote a blog post about the announcement of the Nutanix Platform Expert certification (NPX) which can be found here. For those of you following my blog and knows me are aware of that i have been focusing on one single hypervisor and solutions related to that software vendor the past …
Just wanted to let you know that i will do a public speaking session on Nutanix. This will be a two hour event June 17 in Stockholm Sweden. I’ll be covering a limited number for topics so we have the time for deep dive and questions. This session will not be a sales presentation, it …
So a few weeks back i wrote an article about how you can backup your Realize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) embedded PostgreSQL database. You can read the blog post here. I have received a few questions regarding the blog post and most of they has been around securing the PostgreSQL …
This blog post is mostly for myself so i can remember how to do this next time so i don’t have to spend 2 hours trying to find the information needed once more. If i just did more Horizon View implementations i guess i would know this by heart but honestly and as you might understand if …
Last week, Unitrends released a new product — Unitrends Free. The product, which is unlimited in terms of VMs and sockets, gives you the opportunity to protect 1TB of VM data for free, forever. When downloading your Unitrends Free copy, which you can do via this link, you also get a chance to participate in the “Recover Your …
Great news, yesterday 2015-05-14, VMware released the patch for the ESXi 6.0 Change Block Tracking (CBT) patch that affected all customers running ESXi 6.0 no matter if you upgraded to ESXi 6.0 or did a fresh install of ESXi 6.0. The patch will make it possible to backup your virtual machines (VMs) when CBT is turned …
A really short blog post but the content is really awesome. A lot of my readers have asked me about how to run the Nutanix software based hyper converged solution in a home lab. Today i got the answer and it is spelled Nutanix Community Edition (CE). The CE was announced by Nutanix today and will be released as …
Today i received some were good news from VMTurbo. They are actually giving away free VMworld 2015 tickets this year as well. They did the same last year which you can read about here. VMworld will be held August 30TH, 2015 – September 3RD, 2015 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. If you haven’t done so already sign …
In a vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) there are quite a few components to keep in sync so you can successfully restore the environment in case of a disaster. I mentioned backup and restore as a critical piece of a vRA implementation during the podcast i joined the other week. Click here …
Just realised that the blog post i put together after the Nutanix vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) reference architecture was published earlier this year was still unpublished. Received quite a few questions about it since the podcast, that can be found here, i did a few weeks back was released. During the past years i …
So the other day i ran in to a problem where i couldn’t connect to my vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) version 5.5.2 server using the vCO client. It was working perfectly fine before a restart of the Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine (VM), required because of Windows patching. When …
A few days ago i had to create a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflow that reads a file. For that you can use the MimeAttachement type. What i didn’t know was that once you read the file its content will be cached internally in vRO and since i need to run the vRO …
Must be a first time for everything, right? Last week was my first time i participated in a company lead podcast recording and yesterday it was released. The topic that we covered was automation and orchestration with focus on Nutanix, vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as …