Today, 2018-03-06, Nutanix release a new minor update to their AOS version 5.5 meaning latest AOS and Prism Central version is now 5.5.0.6. Latest update, 5.5.0.5, was released about a month ago which you could read about here. AOS 5.5.0.6 includes fixes in the following areas: Calm Infrastructure / Services Prism Gateway Prism UI Stargate …
Tag Archive: 5.5
List Nutanix AHV Physical Memory Configuration
A question I have received quite a few times when Nutanix customers wants to add memory to their AHV hosts is how they can see the following: DIMM Size in use DIMM Locator in use DIMMs Bank Locator in use You can get some of this information from the out of band management interface (IPMI, …
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 …
Update vCenter Server Appliance without internet connection
Last week i published a blog post where i outlined how to install an Apache web server on a CentOS virtual machine (VM). The web server was required to install, update and upgrade a few other applications and one of them was the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) from version 5.5.0 Update 1c to the latest available version 5.5.0 …
Missing library content in vCenter Orchestrator
Every once in a while when i login to my vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 5.5 appliance, soon to be called vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), i find a lot of the the library content missing so a while back i decided to create a blog post about it when it happens next time. While logging in to my development vCO …
ESXi hosts disconnected in vCenter Server
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 …
ESXi host VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL configuration using PowerCLI
I have already written a blog post about how you can configure the ESXi host setting disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault in vSphere version 5.1. You can find that blog post here. I have received a couple of questions about how to configure the setting, called VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL, in ESXi 5.5 so i decided to put together a blog post about it. …
ESXi host advanced settings
During every vSphere design and Health Check the vSphere advanced settings are being discussed and every once in a while i receive an email asking me what vSphere advanced settings i normally use and recommends. I know Duncan Epping wrote a blog post about when to use the vSphere advanced settings a while ago. In general i agree …
ESXi host disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault configuration using PowerCLI
This section is updated since vSphere 5.5 was GA during VMworld 2013. From now on the configuration option has changed regarding two things: Name – It is now called VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL and not Disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault Configuration – It is now an advanced ESXi configuration parameter and not a text string in the ESXi host file /etc/vmware/settings Continue reading if …