This will be the forth part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series and it will cover the OpenStack Glance Image service. The following blog posts has been released so far: Nutanix OpenStack Part I – Deployment Nutanix OpenStack Part II – Project & User Management Nutanix OpenStack part III – Network Management It’s now time to …
This will be the second part of my Nutanix OpenStack blog series. The first one was about the Deployment and can be found here. Now when we have the solution up and running it’s time to create the Projects needed and for those of you who have never worked with OpenStack a project can be …
A while back i had to manually clean up some Horizon View (version 6.2) Desktop pools that were stuck in the delete state. Reasons for this was failed attempts to delete Horizon View VDIs even though their corresponding vCenter Server VMs were successfully deleted. Below is a print screen from the Horizon View UI showing the state …
This will be the first blog post in a series that will cover the Nutanix OpenStack solution and what could be better than starting with the deployment. I will not spend much time explaining the architecture but i’ll mention the three main components in the Nutanix OpenStack solution: Acropolis OpenStack Services VM (OVM) – This …
Updated 2018-06-25: Link to blog post to Manage Nutanix Guest Tools For Cloned VMs Updated 2017-11-15:Information about how to check NGT status in Linux based VMs ————————————————————————————— In the Nutanix Guest Tools blog post i explained what Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is and what features it provides. This blog post will focusing on the installation of NGT in …
As mentioned in the blog post Acropolis Base Software 4.6 released the Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is now general available for virtual machines (VMs) and no longer a tech preview as in Acropolis Base Software 4.5. NGT is a software package distributed and maintained by Nutanix and its purpose is to provide advanced VM management functionality. …
A few months back Mark Brunstad, former Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Program manager moved on to another role at Nutanix and the Chris Skinner is now the the new NPX Program Manager. I’m very glad Chris had the time to answer almost the same questions as Mark and below you’ll find the answers. Name: Chris Skinner Employer: Nutanix …
Just a quick post if you haven’t seen already. The Nutanix Support app version 1.0.1 is available for download via iTunes here or for Android here. You can use the app for various purposes e.g. Manage support cases View Create Update Get push notifications for your support cases Check documentation including knowledge base articles Check support contract …
Just wanted to mention that Acropolis Base Software, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.5.2 was released 2016-02-03. In this dot dot release update there is a really useful update included meaning that you can use the Nutanix 1-Click upgrade for BIOS and BMC firmware. This is really cool and will make operation even more …
Yesterday, 2016-01-07, VMware release vSphere vCenter Server and ESXi 6.0 Update 1b. A few updates and fixes i think will be useful for at least some of my readers are listed below: VMware now supports Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual machines protected by VMware vShield App lose network connectivity on the ESXi 6.0 hosts Windows 10 …
This is just a very short blog post to let you know that VMTurbo gives you the opportunity to download a free vColoring book. Yeah i know this is a very non technical blog post but it is for two good reasons: For every download between December 17th and December 30th VMTurbo will donate $1 …
It has been a while but now it’s time for another VCDX56 blog sponsor blog post. This time its Login VSI that will describe their product/offering and it will include the following: What it is What are the usage areas How it works The main components in a test Potential pre-reqs So here we go, from no …
I have had numerous questions over the 18 months since i joined Nutanix about my home lab/working environment setup and this blog post will describe the setup and what i have been using my environment for. To give you a short summary it is built on a Nutanix Block and a Nutanix technology partner Arista …
One of the new functionalities in Acropolis Operating System, formerly known as both Acropolis Base Software and Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.5, is the ability to enable both compression and deduplication on the same Nutanix Container. This blog post explains existing Nutanix nomenclature. The purpose of this blog post is to give you a …
