Note: This week I'll be live blogging from VMworld 2017. As always, this will be live, and so please excuse my typos and grammar issues. Pat Gelsigner walks on stage. This is Pat's 6th VMworld and he became CEO 5 years ago. Pat mentions the disaster in Houston and sends...
Hot off the press is the community edition of Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1, Community Edition (CE) 2017.07.20. For what's new in AOS 5.1.1.1, see my post here. You can find all the direct download links at the end of this post in the Next community. As always, you can perform a...
Hot off the press is Nutanix AFS 2.1.1 (Nutanix File Services). In case you don't know, AFS is a web-scale "NAS" that runs in a highly available configuration on Nutanix clusters. This has several important new features, plus a number of resolved issues. New features include: AFS Sizing workflow at...
Today I am glad to announce the general availability of Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1. This is a patch release, but it also has a few new features. Of interest to you will be the security patches (11 total), and a good sized list of resolved issues. You can find the full...
Normally I don't blog about home PC topics, but I haven't blogged for a bit and came across something today that I thought was worth mentioning. Basically, this is a quick review of Acronis True Image 2017. About 18 months ago I wanted to backup my PC to the cloud,...
If you are a Nutanix customer and using AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor), I have some great news for you. We have released VirtIO 1.1 drivers, and the big deal is that they are now Microsoft WHQL signed. I know the lack of signing was holding back some customers for production workloads....
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...