5 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Nutanix Files 5.3

Magnus Andersson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:24:40 +0000

Today, 2026-01-27, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Files meaning the latest and greatest version is now 5.3. Files is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution which provides the services to consumers via Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) protocols. Picture borrowed from Nutanix web page. Version 5.0 comes with the …

Nutanix Files 5.0

Magnus Andersson — Tue, 21 May 2024 06:02:47 +0000

Yesterday, 2024-05-20, Nutanix released a major version of Nutanix Files meaning the latest and greatest version is now 5.0. Files is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution which provides the services to consumers via Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) protocols. Picture borrowed from Nutanix web page. Version 5.0 comes with the …

Nutanix Objects Version 5.0

Magnus Andersson — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:00:02 +0000

One day before Nutanix .next conference in Barcelona 21-23 May 2024 Nutanix releases a new major version of Nutanix Objects (Objects) meaning the latest version is now 5.0. Nutanix Objects is a software-defined Object Store Service and that you can consume & managed via both standard S3 APIs and Prism Central. Picture borrowed from Nutanix …

Runecast Analyzer v5.1 Released

Magnus Andersson — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:58:57 +0000

Been a little bit over three months since Runecast released its 5.0 version and a few days ago the first corresponding dot release was made available meaning the latest Runecast version is now 5.1. This is really good news for all of you out there running VMware vSphere on Nutanix since best practices validation for …

vMotion – A general system error occurred

magander — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:57:30 +0000

Updated 20170127 Apparently this applies to vSphere 6.5 as well according to a comment below. Thanks Joe for letting us know ———————————————————————– The other day i had an issue with vMotion migrations in my vSphere environment running the following versions: vCenter Server 5.5.0 build 2183111 ESXi 5.5.0 build 2143827 The error i was seeing happened at …

VMware stretched cluster and VM swap file placement

magander — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:53:47 +0000

A few days ago i came across a VMware vSphere, version 5.5, stretched cluster implementation that caught my attention. Background My customer uses the following setup: 8 ESXi version 5.5 hosts. 4 placed in Datacenter01 and 4 placed in Datacenter02 2 Storage systems. 1 storage node placed in Datacenter01 and 1 storage node placed in Datacenter02 …