6.0 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Nutanix AOS 6.0, AHV 20201105.2076 & Prism Central 2021.5 Released

Magnus Andersson — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:13:57 +0000

I usually don’t blog about Nutanix AOS Short Term Support (STS) releases but i wanted to make you aware of that a new major version of Nutanix AOS has been released some time ago meaning the latest and greatest AOS STS release is 6.0 As expected it comes with quite a few improvements and new …

Find ESXi installation date

magander — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:29:00 +0000

Last week i received a question about howto find the VMware ESXi installation date. Actually nothing i have thought about before and my initial thought was to verify this via the date you receive when running the following command: esxcli software vib list | grep -i base I ran the above command in my home …

ESXi Change Block Tracking patch released

magander — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 07:18:00 +0000

Yesterday, 2015-11-25, VMware released a patch that will solve the ESXi 6.0 Change Block Tracking (CBT) problem where virtual machines backed up using CBT could experience the following problems: Inconsistent virtual machine backups The CBT API call QueryDiskChangedAreas() API call can sometimes return incorrect changed sectors, which results in inconsistent incremental virtual machine backups. The …

vCloud Automation Center 6.0 SP1 released

magander — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:04:40 +0000

Yesterday, 2014-02-13 very late Swedish time, VMware released vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 SP1. This is really good since i have seen quite a few things that will make my current vCAC projects a little bit easier. Below i have listed a few thing i’ll find very useful immediately. Error during import leads to data …

Smart card authentication does not work with vCloud Automation Center 6.0

magander — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:49:34 +0000

I’m currently in a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 project where all the potential end users must use smart card authentication. This is a company policy and we can not change this requirement. Apparently there is a bug in vCAC and the SSO integration which prevent us from being able to use smart card to …