As a permanent remote IT professional I've had a dual 27" 4K monitor setup for Intel based Macs for a number of years. A few weeks ago I upgraded my personal Mac to a new 14" M1 Pro, and wanted to keep using my dual monitor setup. However, I ran...
Update: Dec 12, 2021: I discovered a new must-have app called OpenIn. I've added it to the list below.--Very recently I purchased a new Mac, a 14" M1 Pro running Monterey. I did a clean install of all my apps and data, and thought it would be a good time...
For many years home labs, and even in some production environments, booting VMware ESXi from a SD card or USB stick was an easy and simple way to deploy ESXi. For example, up until today I booted my Dell Precision 7920 ESXi 7 host from a high endurance SD card...
Hot off the press is Nutanix Collector, v3.4. What is Nutanix Collector? Nutanix Collector collects the cluster statistics such as usage data of the allocated resources from AHV, ESXi, and Hyper-V clusters. Nutanix Collector provides a simple method to quickly capture configuration and performance metrics of your virtualized environments and...
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...