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    Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster

    Hopefully you will never need the information in this post. Lately, a wrong gateway was entered during the initial setup of a Nutanix cluster. Because the cluster was configured connected to a standalone switch, the typo was found when the cluster was already connected to the customers production network and was unreachable… Luckily you can…

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  • VMware vSphere 6.5 announced!

    Today, October 18th,  with VMworld in Barcelona, Spain, Vmware announced their latest release of their vSphere software. In VMware 6.5 the focus is on simplicity, scalability and security. While reading the Introduction Blog from Charu Chaubal, I noticed a few items, I was waiting for… First of all, the VMware Update Manager is now part of…

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    Nutanix AHV: Multi-Site Distributing reference images

    When you are using Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) in your environment, you will notice some difficulties, which you don’t have using VMware. Of course, this is completely understandable regarding the years of development in VMware, and those years in AHV. Luckily Nutanix provides multiple interfaces you can use to accomplish your tasks. One of my latest…

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    Nutanix & Powershell: Restoring a Protection Domain on a remote site

    Using Nutanix Acropolis in your infrastructure, you have multiple options to protect your virtualized infrastructure. Using Protection Domain and async replication. So, disaster recovery is very good handled in the Nutanix software. For long term retention of the data, a third party tool is most likely needed for protection. For a customer, I am replicating…

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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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