Taking and Restoring a Snapshot on a Nutanix AHV VM
In this TechTopX video demo you will see how to take and restore a snapshot on a Nutanix AHV VM.
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Nutanix recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Vendor for Hyperconverged Infrastructure for the second year in a row
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced that it has been named by Gartner, Inc. as a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. This is the second year that Nutanix has been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice. “At a time when many organizations are struggling with the day-to-day […]
Veeam ensures that Canadien mental health and addiction hospital is an always-On Enterprise
Veeam Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise, today announced that Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has deployed Veeam to ensure 24.7.365 Availability of the critical applications and data used by physicians and staff to deliver the right care at the right time in the right place. With 3,000 […]
Virtual Networks for Virtual Machines in Acropolis Hypervisor
Networking virtual machines in the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor, and demos setting up a managed network using Prism and an unmanaged network from the Acropolis command line.AHV makes network management for VMs incredibly simple, connecting VMs with just a few clicks. Check out the following YouTube video for a light board walkthrough of AHV VM networking […]
StarWind Software enters into an OEM Agreement with WD
StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of storage virtualization software and VM backup technology, announced today that it has signed a strategic Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partnership agreement with WD, a world leader in external storage and connected home solutions.
Citrix updates XenClient XT to version 3.1
XenClient XT is a secure client hypervisor with management support. XenClient XT 3.1.0 includes a number of new features, security and isolation enhancements, and robustness improvements. What’s new in this release This release features a number of general reliability and robustness improvements in a number of areas, as well as new XenClient and Synchronizer functionality. Some […]
Force shutdown of Linux guest vms in XenServer 6.1
I’ve seen this with both the Access Gateway and other Virtual Machines running in XenServer 6.x from time to time. Here is a resolution that worked for me. 1 – “xe vm-list” to get the uuid of the VM that is hung 2 – “list_domains” to list the domain uuid’s so you can determine the […]
Virtual Machine stuck in amber state on XenServer 6.0.2
Sometimes a VM will get stucked, and you can see errors when trying to Force ShutDown or Restart like this: 08.08.2012 13:45:25 Error: Shutting down VM ‘NAME OF VIRTUAL MACHINE’ on ‘xenserver02’ – Another operation involving the object is currently in progress This can happen to be a virtual machine. Typically you will not get […]
Citrix XenDesktop with Personal vDisk Implementation Guide
This document provides the installation steps required to setup the personal vDisk feature of XenDesktop 5.6 with either Machine Creation Services (MCS) or Provisioning Services (PVS) running on the Citrix XenServer virtualization platform. This guide assumes the infrastructure aspects for Citrix products have been installed, including Citrix Licensing Server 11.9, Citrix XenDesktop 5.6, Provisioning Services 6.1, etc. […]
Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack) version 3.0.3 released
Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack) version 3.0.3 is now available. This minor release includes advances in Amazon Compatibility, High Availability, XenServer Management, support for Cisco Nexus 1000v and more.