Tag Archive: Nutanix CALM

Heads Up! – New Nutanix Era Version 2.1 PostgreSQL User and Group Requirements

Quick note to let you know about a PostgreSQL related change that has been implemented in Nutanix Era 2.1. As you know Era comes with a PostgreSQL software profile including VM built on CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 and PostgreSQL version 10.4. This Era software profile is not affected meaning this note is addressing the PostgreSQL …

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Monitor Era Operation Progress – Calm & Era Integration

I’m getting more and more questions about integrations to Nutanix Era from overlying self-service, automation and orchestration services/tools. It’s a perfect match since integrations to Era is one of my responsibilities these days so keep the questions coming:) There is another blog post which covers Era progress monitoring via ServiceNow available here. In this blog …

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Nutanix Calm Plug-in For ServiceNow Released

Over the past 6-12 months I have received numerous questions about how to integrate ServiceNow with Nutanix products meaning using ServiceNow as a front-end portal and call various Nutanix products (Prism, Prism Central, Era, Calm) to perform actions. Unless you haven’t seen it already, Nutanix has released (June 2019) a Calm plug-in for ServiceNow, version …

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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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