Hot off the software press is Nutanix AOS 5.20 LTS (Long Term Support). This is a major new release, that rolls ups new features and bug fixes from AOS STS (short term support) releases 5.16, 5.17, 5.18, and 5.19. AOS 5.20 is a maintenance branch from 5.19. You can directly...
Nutanix has finished all of the qualification processes to certify VMware ESXi 7.0U2 and ESXi 7.0u2a for Nutanix NX G4, G5, G6 and G7 platforms. Both ESXi versions are supported with Foundation 5.0+ and LCM 2.4.1.1+. For ESXi 7.0U2 (fresh installs only), you need AOS 5.15.5 LTS or AOS 5.19.1+...
Hot off the press is version 3 of the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture. What is the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture? It's a comprehensive document which walks a customer through over 100 design decisions they should consider when deploying their Nutanix hybrid (or private) cloud. Yes, the document covers...
If you are looking for a tool to export inventory information from Nutanix AHV, look no further than the NIACTool. It is basically the AHV equivalent of RVtools for vSphere. Hot off the press is v2.9.4, which has a laundry list of improvements: GUI optimization Improved cli. (securepass) Timeout set...
What has been literally years in the making, Microsoft has just now enabled Microsoft 365 users to send email as a proxy (alias) address. Why is this news? Well Gmail Suite and other business email services have had this feature forever, and some businesses have a hard requirement for such...
Hot off the press is Nutanix Move 4.0. What is Nutanix Move? Move is our free VM mobility tool that allows you to migrate VMs between various hypervisors and hyperscaler clouds. And you can run the Move appliance on either AHV or ESXi hypervisors. What's new in Move 4.0? Supports...
If you enable SSH access on your OPNsense firewall, for the best security you should use SSH keys and disable username/password logins. This blog post will guide you through the quick and easy process of creating SSH keys, installing them, and then configuring OPNsense to only allow SSH key logins....
In a previous post a while back I wrote how to capture outbound DNS queries with your Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and forward them to Pi-Hole. Now that I've transitioned to OPNsense + NextDNS (replacing my EdgeRouter and Pi-Hole), I wanted to post how to do the same thing in OPNsense. Why...
Recently I've been re-doing my home network, and I'm now using the OPNsense firewall, replacing my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 12 with a more robust solution. For OPNsense I selected the PROTECTLI FW6D platform, which has 6 ports and an Intel i5-8250U CPU. I've also been running Pi-Hole on my network for...
For a number of years now Nutanix has offered a 'community edition' of our AOS and Prism Central software suite. The community edition closely resembles the enterprise versions, but is packaged in a way to allow it to install on commodity hardware, or in a nested virtualization environment. It's also...
I was doing some testing in my lab with vCenter 7 (VCSA), using snapshots. I rolled back a test vCenter instance and was unable to subsequently login. The error I got was: User name and password are required. I also noticed that the windows session authentication was also check-able, even...
Over the years I've written a number of blog posts about replacing the SSL certificates for vSphere. Back in the day it was exceedingly difficult and was very error prone (think 5.x and 6.x). However, VMware has made great strides with vSphere 7 in how you manage certificates. Yippee!For enterprises...