If you are a Nutanix customer, and using Zerto, Zerto has release a very critical patch. Unpatched, the bug could result in data integrity issues. This has been seen in the field, particularly with Microsoft SQL. So it's very imperative that you review the Zerto release notes and upgrade to...
Earlier this year Nutanix released AOS 5.0, which contained dozens and dozens of new features and enhancements. As Nutanix customers know, we have 1-click upgrades for AOS. Prism will automatically notify you when there is an updated AOS version available. While customers can immediately download new releases from the portal...
Nutanix has released an updated version of the AOS 4.7 family, which is now bumped up to AOS 4.7.5Â If you have already upgraded to AOS 5.0.x, which came out earlier this year, you can ignore this post. Those of you with Nutanix support portal access can download the 4.7.5...
Continuing my 2017 series on unattended Microsoft SQL installs, this post will cover SQL 2016 on Windows Server 2012 R2. If you want the unattended install for SQL 2012, check out my post here or for SQL 2014, go here. I’m using the same drive configuration for SQL 2016, as...
Continuing my 2017 series on unattended Microsoft SQL installs, this post will cover SQL 2014 on Windows Server 2012 R2. If you want the unattended install for SQL 2012, check out my post here. I'm using the same drive configuration for SQL 2014, as I did for 2012. These drives...
A few years ago I wrote a blog post detailing an unattended SQL 2012 installation process. That article needs a bit of updating, so I'm creating a fresh post. I will also follow up on this post with SQL 2014 and SQL 2016. This time around I'm using Windows Server...
Session: INF8108 Teaser: 5.5 to 6.0 is 300% faster for vCenter operations From 6.0 to 6.5(?) is another 100% higher. HTML5 vs. Flex client: Shows a chart with dramatically faster HtML5 performance over Flash client. VCSA vs. windows - When you have a datacenter with heavy load the VCSA far...
Session: INF8375 What happened since VMworld 2015? End of availability of C# client in next major release HTML5 web client fling 6.0 U2 - Q1 2016 Pricing and packaging changes - No more vSphere "enterprise" edition, or vSOM standard and enterprise. End of sale of vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 (August...
Session: INF8939 4 Step Program for Success Define - Gather requirements - RPO/RTO Research and design - look at various technologies Acquire and implement - Document Test and operate - Continuous testing, continuous research Disaster recovery and business continuity DR is recovery of data BC is the full business process...
Session INF8959 300,000 vCenter deployments, 94% with DRS enabled Quick Facts Faster power on for large clusters: 6.5 is 3x faster than 5.5 and 6.0. 5x lower CPU utilization in 6.5 than previous versions 6.5 has better VM placements DRS ensures resource availability - DRS does this in two ways...
External Threats Nation states, profit motive, highly skilled, social engineering Internal Threats Snowden. Admins who abuse privileges Physical access to data VMware's Vision for security - Secure Access, Secure Infrastructure, Secure Data VM Encryption Preview Encryption managed via storage policies - Encryption done in ESXi kernel, uses AES-NI, and uses...
Session INF8092 Note: If you missed it, Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and will release it for MacOS and Linux. VMware will release PowerCLI modules for Linux and MacOS, so you can run the same scripts on all three platforms. PowerCLI Technical Preview No more snap-ins - Much more simple to...