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…
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…
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…
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…