The ability to perform day-2 operations from a single management pane can make life’s of IT administrators easier, especially with a platform that adapts an API First architecture strategy.

VMware vRO has a built-in REST plugin that allows you to perform REST operations and workflows that you can run directly from your vCenter.

In this quick post, we cover the integration between vRO and the Nutanix platform in order to automate the following actions:

Add a VM to an existing

This is a really short blogpost showing the integration between Nutanix Calm and HYCU.

What is Nutanix CALM?

• • Application lifecycle management: Allows you to provision and manage business applications across your infrastructure for both the private and public clouds, including Nutanix, VMware, AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • For more information about Nutanix CALM: NUTANIX-CALM 

What is Nutanix HYCU?

• • Solution that provides backup and recovery capabilities. 
  • Focused on Hyperconverged platforms such as Nutanix.
  • Multi-cloud Data Protection: Nutanix, VMware, GCP, AWS,

Nutanix has announced a couple of new releases in April:

• Move 3.5.0 – move 3.5.0 release notes
• Foundation 4.5.3 – foundation 4.5.3 release notes
• Files 3.6.3 – files 3.6.3 release notes
• AOS 5.10.10 – aos 5.10.10 release notes
• LCM 2.3.1.15590 – lcm release notes
• ERA 1.2.1.1 – era 1.2.1.1 release notes
• Objects 2.0.1 – object 2.0.1 release notes

All new announcements can be found here: Announcements

Regarding Nutanix Move, there are a few new interesting features with the 3.5.0 release…

Life Cycle Manager (LCM) is a feature on AOS that tracks software and firmware versions of all entities in the cluster.

From Prism Element (PE) you can use LCM to update AHV, NCC, Foundation, BIOS, BMC, DATA Drives, HBA Controllers, SATADOMs and M.2 Drives, and for Prism Central, you can update Calm, Epsilon, Karbon, and Objects.

Today with LCM Version: 2.3.1.15590, we cannot do central inventory or upgrades PE components from Prism Central (PC), and to do that we need to connect on each PE.

So if you …

One of the reasons engineers tend to prefer automation over clicks is efficiency, especially if there are many days 2 operations and tasks that can be automated.

Through Prism Pro (PC pro), you can use the X-play feature to automate many routine tasks which can be achieved by creating Playbooks.

You can create playbooks based on the following triggers:

• Alert Trigger: Automatic playbook trigger when an alert is generated
• Manual Trigger: Manual trigger playbook with select an

NUTANIX CLUSTER CHECK (NCC) is a powerful tool that performs full cluster verification by executing many cheeks.  NCC can be run from the Prism console and for each execution, the ncc-output-lastest log will be generated and located on /home/nutanix/data/.

In this blog post, we will share a few quick tips on how to run the NCC Health Check on your CVM and collect the output directly on your desktop using PuTTY as the terminal.

STEP1: Change the Logging …

One of the Veeam Backup & Replication v10 and AHV Backup Proxy v2 features is VeeamZIP for AHV VMs that allows you to quickly performing backup of  if needed.

To create a VeeamZIP backup, you need to open the Inventory view on the VBR console and select Nutanix AHV at the inventory pane, right-click on the required VM and select VeeamZIP.

The VeeamZIP job  produces a full backup file (.VBK) as an independent restore point for the VM.

As you may know …

a priori, rendre le backup invisible est le prochain challenge de Nutanix, avec la plateforme Nutanix Mine annoncée lors du .Next 2019 à Anaheim.

Il s’agit d’une plate-forme qui permet à Nutanix d’ajouter la protection et l’archivage des données à son catalogue avec un produit facile à déployer et à administrer.

La solution est présentée sous forme d’une Appliance Hardware Nutanix avec la partie software AOS et un logiciel de sauvegarde dont le partenariat semble très bien avancé avec …

Un blog post rapide pour vous expliquer sur la façon de réparer une mise à niveau NCC qui bloque

Connectez-vous sur la CVM en question et lancez la commande « progress_monitor_cli fetchall qui vous donne plus d’informations sur la tâche bloquée telles que son id, le type d’opération et le nom de l’opération.

Ces infos vous seront nécessaire pour annuler la tâche bloquée, récupérer l’id de la tâche, l’opération et le type et utiliser la commande :

progress_monitor_cli –entity_id= «xxxx » –operation=upgrade_ncc –entity_type= …

Nutanix a publié Move version 3.0 anciennement connue sous le nom de xTRACT VM, une solution de migration entre hyperviseurs multiples pour migrer les VMs avec un temps d’indisponibilité minimal. 

Cette version  prend en charge trois types de sources pour la migration: la migration des VMs s’exécutant sur un hyperviseur ESXi géré par vCenter; migration d’instances EC2 basées sur EBS et exécutées sur AWS et la migration de machines virtuelles s’exécutant sur un hyperviseur Hyper-V.