Category: Technology

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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 in the release notes of Service Pack 2. I must add a note that the Intellisnap support Matrix is not updated yet, but that will be…