For the second time this year, Nutanix has released a major feature upgrade to AOS and companion software. Now available, is AOS 5.1! Top of the list of new features is vSphere 6.5 support for NX platforms (Nutanix branded gear). vSphere 6.5 support for OEM platforms is coming soon. But...
Fresh off the press, is an updated version of the Nutanix hypervisor, AHV. Today we released AHV-20160925.43. Features include broader support for the AOS 5.0.x family, and a tech preview feature of hot plugging memory and CPU on VMs. A number of bug fixes were also incorporated. Noteworthy, is a...
About a month ago, VMware released news of an updated version of Horizon, version 7.1. As it turns out, the day it was announced I was at a customer site doing a Horizon install and they were all excited about the 7.1 features. They were most interested in Blast Extreme...
Hot off the press, are three updates for VMware products. First, Workstation Pro 12.5.4 was released, which addresses a critical security issue. According to VMware "This vulnerability might allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs VMware Workstation 12 Pro." You can read the full release...
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...