Author: Bart Donders
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Visiting .Next2016 in Vegas
When you follow my Twitter timeline, you may notice I am currently in Las Vegas to participate in the yearly event of Nutanix. During the opening keynote several new features were announced, as there are: Acropolis File Services Acropolis Block Services Self Service portal and RBAC Citrix support on AHV This is not an exhausting…
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Nutanix announced Xpress edition!
Recently Nutanix annound the launch of the Xpress edition. With this model, Nutanix wants to serve the SMB customers, so they can enjoy all the benefits of the enterprise cloud platform, as there are: Ease of deployment; as the regular edition, the Xpress edition is deployed and configured very easily. Ease of Management; the whole…
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Prism – missing vm storage statistics
When running Acropolis 4.6.1 with ESXi as the hypervisor, it is possible you will miss some storage statistics about the virtual machines, like in this screenshot. When hovering over the column “Used storage”, a strange message appears… This message is “Data is not available because this cluster’s version is older than the current version of…
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Prism Central upgrade not allowed !?
According to the documentation it is not allowed to upgrade to version 4.6 from any earlier version. You can read this in the Prism Central Guide. Knowing that, it is strange to see the following in Prism Central 4.5.2.2. I take no risk and will deploy a new appliance…
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Acropolis 4.6 & Metro Availability
One of the cool new features in Acropolis 4.6 is Non-disruptive site failover using Metro Availability. This allows the admin to vmotion the virtual machines to another datacenter, and afterwards promote the standby container to redirect IO to the failover cluster. For now, just remember that Metro Availability is only supported for ESXi. Also note that existing…
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Commvault and AHV support
This week Commvault finally released Service Pack 3 for version 11 of their software. I was just wating for this software because finally support for AHV, the hypervisor of Nutanix Acropolis, was added to the software. So, first thing to do was installing the software at customers site. Last week all clusters were installed and…
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Nutanix releases new (minor) Acropolis release
A few weeks ago Nutanix released the latest major release 4.6 with lots of new features. Yesterday, a new version was released, version 4.6.0.1. According to the release notes all vulnerabilities in the latest major release were addressed and resolved. Because of the potential vulnerabilities, Nutanix recommends to update to the latest release. At the same…
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Nutanix Foundation; troubles during installation
Before talking about the problems I experienced lately with Nutanix Foundation to install a few new clusters, I want to emphasize I am quite happy with the Foundation tool. But when things are following the manual, there is no need to write a blog about it. Right now I want to spend a few words…
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Acropolis; Using the Filesystem Whitelist for migrating purposes
Normally, the Nutanix containers can only be mounted to the Nutanix nodes in the cluster. For migrating purposes it can be really helpful to mount a Nutanix container on another Nutanix or non-Nutanix host. To allow this, a filesystem whitelist has to be configured.
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Ignoring the Nutanix Foundation VM
When Nutanix nodes are delivered, they are factory installed with Nutanix OS (NOS) and KVM. Not every organisation will use KVM as the hypervisor, so Vmware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V has to be installed. Prior to Acropolis 4.5 (formerly known as NOS), the Nutanix Foundation VM is used to image the nodes. Normally this is a…