Sending logs to an external syslog server is very common practice across many industries. The main reason to send logs to the external location is security or industry compliance. It helps to find out...
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is on the market for a few months. Some customers already started deploying Windows Server 2019 on Nutanix AHV. As of today (January 9’th 2019) Nutanix has not released official...
For those using Windows Server 2016 on Nutanix AHV, the device manager shows a non-functioning device called “HID Button over Interrupt Driver”. This is apparently an issue with Windows (details in this thread: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377155)....
Nutanix Acropolis (AOS) supports Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2 since AOS 3.5 version (soon will be 4 years anniversary) and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 is supported on AOS 5.5. Nutanix AOS can work on Hyper-V clusters connected...
Yesterday, I had to do some Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2 to Nutanix AHV migration testing and when I tried to log in to SCVMM I got an error: The evaluation copy of System Center Virtual...
Few days back Nutanix released new version of Microsoft SCOM management pack for Nutanix. new SCOM for Nutanix pack has been completely redesign and re-write. Getting into account customers and partners feedback we have...
Changing SCVMM 2012 R2 database it is not as easy as you would think. It gets even more complicated when you run Microsoft SCVMM as failover cluster. Below is the procedure how to change...
Somewhere, in the dark corner of your virtual datacenter, running little, inconspicuous VM with Windows 2000 Server. You have to keep it, even if it is unsupported for many years by Microsoft. The reason is...
Quick guide how to remove Hyper-V host from Nutanix cluster and from Microsoft failover cluster. Order is very important, as Nutanix AOS is very smart and will not let you remove Hyper-V node if it is...
If for any reason you have to run Windows XP on Nutanix AHV, there is simple trick to speed up install process. When you create VM in Prism, DO NOT create network adapter. Instead,...
