Yesterday, 2019-03-13, Nutanix released Move version 3.0 and for those of you who never heard about it it’s actually the new name for the good old Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines. One of the most significant improvements in this version is that you can now migrate VMs from Hyper-V to AHV meaning the following sources …
Tag Archive: ESXi
Nutanix Xtract For VMs Version 2.0.3 Released
Yesterday, 2019-02-04, Nutanix released a new version of its VM migration tool called Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines meaning latest and greatest version is now 2.0.3. For those of you that don’t know, Xtract for VMs is a tool to migrate VMs to Nutanix AHV hypervisor AHV. I know it is a dot dot release but …
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 …
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 7.5 Released
A few days ago, 2018-04-20, VMware released a new version of vRealize Orchestrator Appliance (vRO), formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO), meaning the latest and greatest vRealize Orchestrator version is now 7.5 (7.5.0) There are some really good news in this release and the below once are the most critical from my point of view: …
VMware vRealize Automation 7.5 Released
Yesterday, 2018-04-20, VMware released a new version of vRealize Automation (vRA), formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) meaning we have reached vRealize Automation version 7.5.0. I wrote a short blog post about the vRealize Automation 7.5 announcement back in August 2018 which you can read here Improvements and or new functionality in all the below …
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 -> …
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 …
VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U2 & ESXi 6.5 U2 Released
Yesterday, 2018-05-03, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 2. This is little more than two weeks since the vSphere 6.7 release and some features from vSphere 6.7 are backported to 6.5 U2. The most important things is vCenter Server single instance solution meaning no more …
VMware vSphere 6.7 Released
Two days ago, 2018-04-17, VMware released a new version of vSphere meaning the latest and greatest version is now 6.7. The core of VMware vSphere is and has always been the management tool vCenter Server and the hypervisor ESXi (which was ESX initially). The best enhancement in the VMware vCenter Server 6.7 release is that …
Nutanix AHV & Promiscuous Mode
A question I have received a few times is if AHV supports promiscuous mode or not. The easy answer is YES it does. However there is a huge difference in how promiscuous mode works for AHV compared to another well known hypervisor VMware ESXi. AHV uses Open vSwitch for network communication in most cases, there …
Nutanix Xtract For VM Version 1.1.2 Released
In October 2017 I wrote a blog post about Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines which provides almost no VM downtime during the migration from vSphere ESXi to Nutanix AHV. Now, 2018-01-30, version 1.1.2 has been released and it comes with a few enhancements which can/will make your even life easier when migrating VMs to Nutanix …
VMware ESXi Esxtop Invalid Output Format (CSV)
A few days back I received a question regarding ESXi esxtop output format which looked more like a comma separated values (CSV) file than the normal table view you’re used to. And the CSV like output was constantly updating meaning estop was running but not just displayed correct. See sample output below. I’m running a …
Update ESXi Fails With “DependencyError, Requirement Cannot Be Satisfied Within The ImageProfile”
Was contacted a few days ago by customer who got the following error when trying to upgrade their ESXi hosts. [DependencyError] VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_6.0.0-2.43.4192238 requires vsan >= 6.0.0-2.43, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile. VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_6.0.0-2.43.4192238 requires vsan << 6.0.0-2.44, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile. Please refer to the …
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 …
VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U1 & ESXi 6.5 U1 Released
Yesterday, 2017-07-27, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 1. The release includes quite a few driver updates for ESXi and vCenter Server got a few new enhancements & features which I know a few of my customers have been waiting for such as: External database …
Add Multiple ESXi Hosts To vCenter Server Using PowerCLi
A few days back I created a vSphere cluster with 32 ESXi hosts and I really didn’t want to add all these hosts using the UI so I decided to put together a short powercli script to manage this. The script that was tested using the following software versions: VMware vCenter Server 6.5 VMware ESXi 6.5 build 5146846 …