Tag Archive: Dell

Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.8 Released

A short note to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.8 was released today 2019-07-12 and it comes with 20 new or updated checks plus improvements to pre-upgrade checks (including time to execute the pre-upgrade checks) which your environment will benefit from. NCC 3.8 requires minimum AOS version 5.5, meaning same requirements …

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Nutanix & HPE Global Partnership Announcement

As you might know Nutanix has been supporting a variety of HPE, both Gen9 and Gen10, servers running Nutanix software meaning even before todays announcement there has been Nutanix customers using HPE hardware. But now it’s a true partnership between HPE & Nutanix. This changes today, 2019-04-09, since Nutanix and HPE announced a global partnership …

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Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.7 Released

A short note to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.7 has been release just a few days ago. This release comes with 12 new plugins including 17 new checks which your environment will benefit from. NCC 3.7 requires minimum AOS version 4.7, which you can see here and supports AHV, ESXi, Hyper-V and …

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Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.6.1 Released

Quick blog post to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.6.1 was released today 2018-08-22 which is exactly 20 days after previous release. Very good development pace here. You can still run ncc same way as before meaning via: CVM command line by using command ncc health_checks run_all Via PRISM UI -> …

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Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.6.0 Released

Quick blog post to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.6.0 was released today 2018-08-02. You can run ncc same way as before meaning via: CVM command line by using command ncc health_checks run_all Via PRISM UI -> Health -> Actions -> Run Checks There are a few new checks included in …

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Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) Version 3.1 Released

Quick blog post to let you know that Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 3.1 has been released. You can run NCC via: CVM command line by using command bcc health_checks run_all Via PRISM UI -> Health -> Actions -> Run Checks There are eight new checks, according to the below list, in this release and there …

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Nutanix and Dell global agreement

June 24:th Nutanix announced they has signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Dell. This will give new and existing Nutanix customers even more flexibility in terms of the underlying hardware chosen for the Nutanix software. Dell will, just like Nutanix, release Appliances in multiple variants to meet different performance and price requirements. The Nutanix …

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Using Dell Foglight for Virtualization to reclaim vSphere resources

Last week i was asked by a customer to help him reclaim CPU, Memory and Storage resources from over sized virtual machines (VM) in his vSphere 5.1 environment since the overall utilization has increased more than expected over the past 2 months. The customer request was very simple: Free up as much resources as possible …

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