As you know, my blog sponsor, VMturbo gave you the chance to win 2 free VMworld San Francisco tickets three times in July. This made a lot of noice in the community and i think that was really awesome. Once again VMturbo has decided to give back to the community and you’ll have three chances of winning a pair …
The August VCDX56 blog sponsor post is published by VMturbo. The blog post includes e.g. information about the newly launched Green Circle Community, VMturbo products and also links to VMturbo resources. Happy reading. —————————————————————————————————— VMTurbo Opens “The Green Circle” The Green Circle VMTurbo is pleased to announce the launch of the Green Circle Community, an …
In a few (two) months time Veeam, founded back in 2006, will arrange their first big multiple day event, VeeamOn. The event will of course be focusing on data center availability and protection. This event will take place 6-8 October at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and includes: Product deep dives Executive keynotes Solutions center Customer showcases A short overview …
A few days ago i received an error in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6 i haven’t seen before. I was trying to deploy virtual machines (VMs) from a vCAC blueprint using the Linked Clone feature. When i requested 1 or 2 VMs everything worked just fine but when increasing the number of VMs per request to …
Today, 2014-07-22, VMware released vCenter Server Update 1c and this version focus a lot focus on resolving problems related to vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) e.g:. Attempts to use the Windows Session Authentication feature might fail with the error: “Windows Session Authentication login has failed as a result of an error caused …
Before i start an upgrade i usually run two commands just to verify what build number my ESXi host currently uses and what image my ESXi host currently uses: vmware -v – shows the build number esxcli software profile get – shows the image name and in my case the result before the upgrade was: …
While upgrading a VMware vCenter Server to the latest release, 5.5 Update 1b which can be downloaded here, i ran into two issues while trying to connect the ESXi hosts when the upgrade was completed. The ESXi hosts were all disconnected after the vCenter Server upgrade. The solution/s to my problem/s are documented in different VMware knowledge …
Today, 2014-07-14, VMware made the VMworld US session builder available. There are more than 375 unique sessions you can select from and some will be repeated during the event as usual. This will give you an excellent chance to create just the schedule you want and maximize your VMworld experience. Head out to the schedule builder here …
There is a great opportunity for all of you interested in learning more about how to successfully deploy a Citrix based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution on top of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform. Technical experts from both Citrix and Nutanix have discussed the joint solution for desktop and application virtualization in a webinar you can watch via this …
Yesterday, 2014-07-07, it came to my knowledge that one more of my blog sponsors, Infinio, gives you a chance to win a free VMworld pass. You might already have seen this via the blog sponsor section of my blog, on Twitter or via the Infinio home page. This is really great initiative by Infinio and one lucky winner has …
Yesterday, 2014-07-02, Nutanix released version 4.0.1 of the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) and at least two of the new features will be much appreciated among IT architects and customers: Availability Domains – This is about “data placement” and the idea is to place the virtual machine data copies in different fault domains. This current release treats a Nutanix …
A few days ago i did a Nutanix Operating System (NOS) upgrade from version 3.5.4 to version 4.0. This blog post will describe the steps i took during the upgrade of a Nutanix 1350 Block just to outline how easy it actually is to upgrade the distributed Nutanix storage system. There are a few steps you manually need …
A few days ago i received a call from one of my old customers who asked for advice regarding a VMware ESXi 5.5 Purple Screen Of Death (PSOD) situation. He had already created a VMware service request but wanted a chat while waiting for a reply. I quickly searched the HP support center web site …
June 24:th Nutanix announced they has signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Dell. This will give new and existing Nutanix customers even more flexibility in terms of the underlying hardware chosen for the Nutanix software. Dell will, just like Nutanix, release Appliances in multiple variants to meet different performance and price requirements. The Nutanix …
A couple of months ago i did a vSphere implementation where the back end storage system were presented to the vSphere environment via NFS. Since my move to Nutanix this will be more common and basically the only option today when performing vSphere implementations. Nutanix presents storage to Hyper-V via SMB and to KVM via iSCSI so …
As most of you already know the VMware VMworld event, held in both USA and Europe every year, is one of the major IT events and brings a lot of attendees (approximately 25 000), vendors and partners. I have attend both the USA and or Europe VMworld event on a regular basis since 2008 and …