Tag Archive: Calm

Nutanix Calm Update Via LCM

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 …

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Nutanix Calm Version 2.6 Released

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 …

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Remove GCP Virtual Machine External IP Via Nutanix Calm

A few weeks ago I was in a project that used Nutanix Calm to deploy virtual machines (VMs) on-premises as well as in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Since the customer had a direct network connection to GCP they wanted to remove the VM external IP address to make sure their VMs can only connect to …

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Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration

This is the third blog post about my work with Citrix ADC VPX which, as mentioned before, will be used as a Web Server Load Balancer. All blog posts in this series includes: Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV Install Apache On CentOS Initial Citrix ADC VPX Configuration Citrix ADC VPX Web Server Load …

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Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV

In an upcoming project we will use Citrix ADC VPX (formerly known as NetScaler ADC or Citrix NetScaler or … ) appliance as Web Server load balancer. Based on that I deployed Citrix ADC VPX version NS12.1: Build 49.23.nc in my lab today to prepare the auto, via REST API, configuration needed when deploying and decommission …

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Nutanix Prism Central – Configure Apps (Calm) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Updated 2018-10-23: Added information about GCP Compute Engine API and the GCP account privileges/Role assignment required. ——————————————————————————————— One of the new features included in the Nutanix Prism Central (PC) 5.7 UI is the option to connect the Apps (Calm product) section to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and manage your workload. This blog post will cover the PC …

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Nutanix Prism Central – Enable Self Service & Apps

This blog post will be an updated version of 2017 Nutanix Self Service Portal Part I – Preparation & Initial Configuration which was created before Calm got integrated in Prism Central which happened with the release of Prism Central and AOS 5.5. Follow the below steps to enable the Self Service and Apps (Calm) functionality in …

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Nutanix Prism Central Version 5.7 Released

Yesterday, 2018-05-01, Nutanix released a new version of Prism Central (PC) meaning the latest and greatest version is now PC 5.7. This release is target for organisations using Calm since development focus for this release has been the Calm component. Two really great new features in this 5.7 are: Nutanix Calm supports GCP. Nutanix Calm …

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