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  • Heading over to Nutanix GTS

    What could be just another sunday, might be a special one. It will be a long day with a flight to Las Vegas with a 4-hour stop in Boston. Hopefully it is worth the travel, but honestly I don’t have a doubt about that. Why GTS? I think it is an amazing event with (almost)…

  • Nutanix AHV, don’t mess with the virtual switch!

    In the first releases of AHV, the virtual switch was present on the AHV host, but not integrated within the Prism UI. By then, it was quite obscure what the settings on the host were. Nowadays it is really important to maintain identical settings on your host for the bridge br0 en de bond br0-up.…

  • Note-to-Self: update terraform using CLI

    How to update terraform on Ubuntu using CLI… Why updating? ubuntu@terraform:~$ terraform –versionTerraform v1.3.1on linux_arm64 Your version of Terraform is out of date! The latest versionis 1.3.9. You can update by downloading from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html Downloading and unzipping the update ubuntu@terraform:~$ curl https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.3.9/terraform_1.3.9_linux_arm64.zip –output terraform_1.3.9_linux_arm64.zip% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time CurrentDload…

  • Multipass, virtualization on personal devices

    Virtualization is not a new technology. It has been used for decades and I can’t imagine any organization that doesn’t use virtualization nowadays. IT administrators are even using virtualization on their notebook. Popular virtualization tools Tools that are widely used for virtualization on personal systems are VMware Workstation, Oracle Virtualbox, maybe even Hyper-V virtualization. On…

  • Nutanix Prism: Enter Maintenance mode

    Customers always asked me, why it is not possible to enter maintenance mode for a host using the GUI, instead of the CLI. Well, now we can… Starting with AOS6.5 (LTS) an administrator is able to enter maintenance mode of a host using the Prism web interface. (Not sure, this was introduced in a STS…

  • Hi all

    Welcome on this page… It is just created, so I need some time to modify it… This blog will replace my previous blog sanessentials.nl. The storage area network is not totally replaced by other solutions, but other techniques are arriving soon. Furthermore I noticed already that my own daily focus shifted to other techniques… I…