5.5 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.5.0.6 & More Released

magander — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:21:43 +0000

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 …

List Nutanix AHV Physical Memory Configuration

magander — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:13:54 +0000

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, …

Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.5.0.5 & More Released

magander — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:20:22 +0000

Yesterday, 2018-01-30, Nutanix release a new minor update to their 5.5 version meaning latest AOS and Prism Central version is now 5.5.0.5. AOS 5.5.0.5 adds support for additional HW platforms compared to 5.5.0.4 and the complete list of supported HW platforms for 5.5.0.5 now includes: Nutanix NX and SX Series Cisco UCS C-Series Dell EMC …

Nutanix AOS & Prism Central Version 5.5.0.4 & More Released

magander — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:32:31 +0000

A few days ago Nutanix released a minor update to the 5.5 released which was GA 4 December 2018. Read more about the 5.5 release This means the most current version of AOS is now AOS 5.5.0.4. As the previous dot dot dot release 5.5.0.2 the 5.5.0.4 is just a minor update which includes a Nested VM feature …

Nutanix AOS Version 5.5.0.2 & More Released

magander — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 08:18:16 +0000

A few days back Nutanix released a minor update to their 5.5 released which was GA 4 December 2018. Read more about the 5.5 release This means the most current version of AOS is now AOS 5.5.0.2. The 0.0.0.2 is obviously just a minor update which fixes a potential upgrade issue so as usual read the …

Nutanix AOS Version 5.5 & More Released

magander — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 04:35:03 +0000

Yesterday, 2017-12-04, Nutanix has released new versions for a bunch of their products including: Acropolis Operating System (AOS) formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 5.5 AHV version 20170830.58 Prism Central version 5.5 Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.5 Foundation version 3.11.2 LifeCycle manager (LCM) 1.3 There are a ton of new features and enhancements so …

Can’t connect to vCenter Server – connection timeout

magander — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:07:38 +0000

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

magander — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:54:22 +0000

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

magander — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:48:56 +0000

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

magander — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:43:59 +0000

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

magander — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:51:58 +0000

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

magander — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:53:09 +0000

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

magander — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:06:33 +0000

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 …