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…
Prism – missing vm storage statistics
When running Acropolis 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…
Prism Central upgrade not allowed !?
According to the documentation it is not allowed to upgrade to version from any earlier version. You can read this in the Prism Central Guide. Knowing that, it is strange to see…
Acropolis 4.6 & Metro Availability
One of the cool new features in Acropolis is Non-disruptive site failover using Metro Availability. This allows the admin to vmotion the virtual machines to another datacenter, and afterwards promote the…
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…
Nutanix releases new (minor) Acropolis release
A few weeks ago Nutanix released the latest major release with lots of new features. Yesterday, a new version was released, version According to the release notes all vulnerabilities in the…
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…
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…
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…
Commvault Intellisnap for Nutanix
With the release of Service Pack 2 for version 11 of the Commvault Simpana software, there is finally Intellisnap support for the Nutanix platform. You can read more about it…