May 2024 – en.vmik.net

Nutanix .NEXT 2024 the first-day Announcements

A bunch of links with announcements happened during the first day at Nutanix .NEXT 2024 in Barcelona.

Nutanix and Dell Technologies Collaborate on New Joint Solutions for Hybrid Multicloud

Nutanix and NVIDIA Team Up to Accelerate Enterprise AI

Nutanix Accelerates Hypervisor Innovation to Drive Enterprise Modernization

Nutanix Announces Nutanix Kubernetes® Platform to Remove Cloud Native Complexity to Speed Innovation Across the Enterprise

GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 is Here With Four Ways to Get Started with GenAI

Empowering Sustainability with a Modernized Infrastructure

Accelerate your Gen AI journey with Nutanix Unified Storage

Nutanix Widens Coverage for Cloud Native Users With Expanded Project Beacon

Nutanix and EDB Partner to Deliver a Modern Data Platform

Nutanix and Red Hat Expand Collaboration to Power the Next-Generation of Virtualized and Cloud-Native Workloads

Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1.2 Release

On May 21, Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1.2 has been released.

This update contains important security bug fixes for the Enterprise Manager, including CVE-2024-29849 with a score of 9.8 and CVE-2024-29850 with a score of 8.8.

Please note, that CVE-2024-29849 allows an unauthenticated attacker to log in to the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager web interface as any user. So, consider to update ASAP.

In addition to the security bug fixes, there are many new improvements and features. I won’t post all of them here, but a few are interesting for me:

Improved VMware NBD (Network Transport Mode) transport mode performance by up to 2x;

AlmaLinux 9.3 and Rocky 9.3 are supported for use as Linux-based backup repositories and backup proxies;

VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 and 10.4.1.1 support;

Veeam Agent for Linux 6.1.2.1781 – AlmaLinux 9.3 & 9.4, RHEL 9.4, Rocky 9.3 & 9.4, and Ubuntu 24.04 Linux distributions support.

In total, there are about 100 improvements and fixes. So even if you don’t use the Enterprise Manager, consider installing this update to add support for new systems’ versions and bug fixes.

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE): Day-two operations. Scaling up and Shrinking Kubernetes Clusters.

Previously, I wrote about deploying Kubernetes clusters using the Nutanix Kubernetes Engine.

The next few articles will cover the day-two operations that make managing Kubernetes clusters easier.

Today we will look at how to expand a Kubernetes cluster or how to shrink it using NKE.

Deploying Kubernetes clusters using Nutanix Kubernetes Engine on Nutanix Community Edition

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine, or NKE (formerly Karbon), is a solution to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in a Nutanix infrastructure.

With NKE, we can deploy Kubernetes clusters, upgrade them, add or remove workers, configure RBAC based on Prism Central, and more in a pretty simple way.

The purpose of this article is to provide a walkthrough on how to prepare a Nutanix cluster for use with NKE and how to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.