This years VMworld in Barcelona will be my first VMworld visit after joining Nutanix in May earlier this year since i couldn’t attend the VMworld San Francisco event. I’m looking forward to the event as i do every year since it is a great place for learning new things, meeting great people. The following tasks will be included in my …
A few weeks back me and my colleagues Phil Ditzel and Artur Krzywdzinski was asked to create a customer demo including Nutanix and vSphere deployment. We decided to use vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) as the provisioning engine but this can be done via e.g PowerShell as well. The following steps are included in the vCD workflow we …
An extremely short blog post 🙂 A few days ago i was trying to run a vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 5.5.1 built in workflow and received the following error: This error tells you that the workflow didn’t pass the validation check before running and that’s why you can’t run the workflow. The workflow would not have …
While doing customer, partner and event presentations the last couple of weeks i have been asked quite a lot of questions and one question that seems to pup up every time is about Nutanix Data Protection. This blog post (first in a series of blog posts) will outline how to configure Nutanix Data Protection within …
A few week ago i decided to put together a few short videos of how to use vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) to manage the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform (VCP). The video will show you how vCAC, using vCO, can be used to quickly create a new Nutanix Container and send an email …
Last week, before the 9/9 release of new the vCloud Suite software versions, i was asked by a potential Nutanix customer how long it will take from the moment the Nutanix block arrives on-site until a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) environment can be up and running and ready for virtual machine (VM) deployments. ————————————————————————————————————- Short answer: For …
I’d like to share something i think will be quite interesting this week. September 18:th Veeam will arrange a live show where you can catch up on and debate IT trends, with a focus on datacenter technologies from both a business and a technical perspective. Three speakers will discuss/provide answers to some quite interesting topics (e.g. …
VMTurbo has recently released datacenter stencils including about 30 objects which i think you’ll find useful when creating Microsoft Visio or OmniGraffle diagrams. You can never have to many objects when creating your diagrams so grab your free copy here. I really believe you’ll find them useful. The below figure (not the best screen resolution) gives …
Today, 2014-09-09, VMware released new versions of many products included in vCloud Suite: VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2 – release notes here VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2 – release notes here VMware vSphere Replication 5.8 – release notes here VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.8 – release notes here VMware vCenter Orchestrator Appliance 5.5.2 – release notes here VMware vCloud …
A few days ago i was contacted when a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0.1 installation failed with the following error message: vCAC-Server-Custom-Database-Web-ModelManagerData-ConfigTool Installation Failed, Exitcode: 1 See complete log file at the end of the blog post. While investigating the error log file i found the following: System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceQueryException: An error occurred while processing this request. …
A few days ago i was asked to look into a failed vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) installation. The failing part was the Windows Server based vCAC Infrastructure as a Service component. I didn’t have access to the installation log file, which is normally saved in the vCAC IaaS virtual machine directory C:Program Files (x86)VMwarevCACServerConfigToolLog, so i really …
This years VMworld in San Francisco will be my first VMworld visit since i joined Nutanix in May earlier this year and also the first time i’ll actually do something apart from being a regular visitor and or a blogger. Based on the above banner you probably understand where i’m going with this:) I’m really glad …
A VMworld blogger pass is a full conference pass meaning you can register and attend the sessions, visit the solutions exchange, attend the VMware party. This pass is given out to a selected few people in the community and is a really great initiative which makes it possible to attend one of the two (US or …
I received two questions on the same topic last week so i figure i’ll put together a blog post. The subject was “Cannot delete a Nutanix Container for my vSphere environment” !! A Nutanix Container is the logical unit, created from the Nutanix Storage Pool, where you store your virtual machines (VMs) and or files. A …
A new Prism-inspired version of the Nutanix support portal has been released today. The new Nutanix support portal is designed from the ground up with the user in mind, and complements the ease of use of Nutanix solutions. It includes powerful capabilities, such as: Improved user interface that mirrors Nutanix Prism Workflows for issue diagnostics, reporting …