Category Archives: Cloud

Disaster Recovery (Metro / 0 RPO) with Nutanix Prism Central 2024.2

Posted on December 23, 2024 by josh@sostechblog.com

As always, if your GUI (or docs) don’t match – check your versions! How to!I’m working with PC 2024.2-on-AOS 6.10-on-AHV in a nested environment. One 1 node cluster, one 3-node cluster. Each has its own Prism Central (the main difference … Continue reading →

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Creating a Nutanix VM from a qcow2 image

Posted on December 23, 2024 by josh@sostechblog.com

This assumes you have sourced a qcow2 image (I downloaded SLES15-SP6-Minimal-VM.x86_64-Cloud-GM.qcow2). Process:Upload Image, Create VM (attaching a copy of the qcow2 as a disk), power on the VM. Profit. Step 1:Upload the image to Nutanix. I’m using Prism Central but … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6.10 Prism Element

Posted on December 23, 2024 by josh@sostechblog.com

Also see the DR Overview post How to!I’m working with AOS 6.10-on-AHV in a nested environment. One 1 node cluster, one 3-node. Each with Prism Central. They are all on the same network (so it mimics a stretched network). Since … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6.10 and Prism Central 2024.2 (Overview)

Posted on December 22, 2024 by josh@sostechblog.com

I have a project involving setting up and testing DR with Nutanix so I’ll be making notes about the overall topics and then posting some walk-throughs on setting it up. First off note the versions this blog post about (AOS … Continue reading →

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VMWorld 2018: Monday

Posted on August 27, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Today kicked off with the main keynote featuring Pat Gelsinger.  There were several new announcements including: Amazon RDS database service will now run on your local VMware servers VMware ESXi now fully supports ARM processors VSAN now supports S3 storage … Continue reading →

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VMWorld 2018: Sunday Funday!

Posted on August 27, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Another year another VMworld! I got registered early this morning and headed to the HandOnLabs.  Lots of 19xx labs, but nothing groundbreaking that I noticed – mostly updates.  Hopefully any big announcements will release cool labs. I tried challenge labs … Continue reading →

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NSX-T a.k.a NSX Cloud API tips and tricks

Posted on August 7, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

NSX-T has lots of interesting capabilities, but due to the rapid development and release cycle many are only available via API calls right now. Making a request While the NSX-T documentation has some nice examples such as: Configure an L2VPN … Continue reading →

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VMC on AWS – Sign up for a paid trial

Posted on June 28, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

VMware announced sometime back the availability to rent bare-metal vSphere hosts in an AWS data center, with such perks as the (included) ability to stretch from your existing data center and “local” no-egress-charge access to AWS features like S3. They … Continue reading →

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Day 1: VMware Center for Advanced Learning – Advanced Architecture Course

Posted on May 14, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Every wish there was a 9-day/81-hour course to propel you down the road to being a VMware Architect?   Wish no more. The VMware Center for Advanced Learning has gone live with a course intended to: Strengthen architectural & solution outcome skills in … Continue reading →

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VMware on AWS Quick Hits

Posted on August 31, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

vSphere plus SDDC Manager (VMware Cloud Foundation) plus NSX-V hosted on bare-metal at   AWS. VMware manages hardware account and bills you (separate from any AWS account you have) 4 nodes to start – each 2 socket/36 core, 512GB RAM, … Continue reading →

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