Automation – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Nutanix Calm VM 3.6.2

Magnus Andersson — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:22:08 +0000

Back in April 2023 Calm version 3.6.2 was released, read about it here, and as you might already know it runs as a service via Nutanix Prism Central. However, there is an option to also run Calm as a standalone virtual machine and today, 2023-06.-27, version 3,6.2 was released, Useful Links Calm 3.6.2 Release Notes …

Nutanix Calm 3.6.2

Magnus Andersson — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:26:58 +0000

Quick note to let you know that Nutanix Calm, also known as NCM Self Service, version 3.6.2 has been released. The major enhancement with this version is the capability to shortlist Active Directories (AD) and or Identity Providers (IDP) in Projects. This is very useful in multi-tenancy situations and is something that service providers has …

Nutanix Calm Version 3.5

Magnus Andersson — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:21:23 +0000

With the new Calm 3.5 release we are getting a feature requested by more and more Nutanix customers and that is —-Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Support—- This is really great news and brings another layer of flexibility and security to your overall self-service solution driven by Calm. A tunnel virtual machine (VM) is required on …

Nutanix Calm Version 3.4 Released

Magnus Andersson — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:51:41 +0000

Yesterday, 2022-03-08, Nutanix released a new dot version of its multi-cloud application management framework Calm meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.4. As i trust you already know, Calm brings the following key functionalities to the table: IT Agility and Human Error Elimination Unified Multi-Cloud Orchestration Automated Self-Service with Centralized Control Nutanix Marketplace …

Databases on Nutanix – Reference Architecture

Magnus Andersson — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:13:17 +0000

Because organizations store their information, including their most critical data, in databases (DBs), it’s vital that these DBs meet the requirements for availability, manageability, resilience, and performance. To provide the needed database functionality, you must carefully design and maintain both the infrastructure layer and the DB engines, typically following a multistep process for each area: …

Nutanix Calm Version 3.3 Released

Magnus Andersson — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:12:36 +0000

Today, 2021-08-20, Nutanix released a new dot version of its multi-cloud application management framework Calm meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.3. As i trust you already know, Calm brings the following key functionalities to the table: Application Lifecycle Management Native Self-Service Multi-Cloud Orchestration Unified VM & Container Management Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Application-as-Code (AaC) …

Nutanix Calm Update Via LCM

magander — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:18:59 +0000

Quick blog post that will cover updating Nutanix Calm via the Nutanix component Life Cycle Manager (LCM) which is available in both Prism Element (PE), the Nutanix Cluster, and via Prism Central (PC). Since Calm belongs to Prism Central we can obviously not upgrade it via PE and must use PC which most of the …

Nutanix Calm Version 2.6 Released

magander — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:25:05 +0000

Two days ago, 2019-01-30, Nutanix released their latest version, 2.6, of Nutanix Calm which is the built-in automation and orchestration tool available in Nutanix Prism Central. Calm, as I guess you already know, supports application life cycle management, monitoring & remediation and can provision virtual machines and deploy applications to multiple target platforms such as: Nutanix …

The Power of Orchestration – My first guest blogger blog post

magander — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 21:42:06 +0000

A few days ago my first guest blogger blog post was released at the VMTurbo About : Virtualization web page and i touched the area of orchestration. For those of you following my blog, you know that i typically write about stuff i’m working on and a few software release notes so this is a coplmete new area …