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Taking and Restoring a Snapshot on a Nutanix AHV VM

Alexander Ervik Johnsen AHV, AHV VM, Nutanix, Restore, snapshot, VM May 4, 2020

In this TechTopX video demo you will see how to take and restore a snapshot on a Nutanix AHV VM.

Nutanix recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Vendor for Hyperconverged Infrastructure for the second year in a row

Alexander Ervik Johnsen AHV, AOS, Gartner, HCI, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Nutanix, Virtualization, VM April 6, 2020

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 Software

Veeam ensures that Canadien mental health and addiction hospital is an always-On Enterprise

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Hyper-V, Microsoft, Veeam, Virtual Machines, VM September 27, 2016

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 […]

Nutanix

Virtual Networks for Virtual Machines in Acropolis Hypervisor

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Acropolis Hypervisor, AHV, hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Nutanix, Virtual Networks, VM, Webscale December 22, 2015

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 […]

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StarWind Software enters into an OEM Agreement with WD

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Starwind, storage virtualization, VM, WD, Western Digital April 17, 2013

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.

XenClient

Citrix updates XenClient XT to version 3.1

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Citrix, Hypervisor, VDI, Virtualization, VM, Windows 8, XenClient January 31, 2013

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 […]

Citrix Hypervisor ( XenServer )

Force shutdown of Linux guest vms in XenServer 6.1

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Citrix, force shutdown, Linux guest VMs, Virtual Machine, Virtualization, VM, XenServer October 9, 2012

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 […]