Category Archives: Computing

Changing the default Nutanix Passwords on your cluster from the Prism Central GUI

Posted on January 10, 2025 by josh@sostechblog.com

Last year (starting with Prism Central 2023.4 / AOS 6.71) Nutanix added the ability to centrally manage the local users (admin and nutanix) on AOS clusters and Prism Central itself through the PC GUI. Really useful for getting rid of … Continue reading →

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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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Trunking VMs in the GUI with Nutanix

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

New with Prism Central 2023.x you can now allow trunking to a virtual machine from Prism Central. Where typically the oVS strips the VLAN tag off of incoming network packets (and attaches the tags to out-going packets), if you set … 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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Learn from home

Posted on April 2, 2020 by josh@sostechblog.com

<This was written in the time of the virus, so some resources are likely to be short-lived> I’ve seen lots of links to free training, I’l trying to keep a running list. I’m focusing on formal stuff, especially stuff that … Continue reading →

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VCAP DCV 6.5 Deploy a.k.a VMware Certified Advanced Professional — Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2018 a.k.a 3V0-21.18

Posted on August 29, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

<Edi 2t> PASS! After almost 10 weeks of waiting I finally got my score back.</Edit 2> <Edit> Apparently I was the first to publicly take the exam! Hope the tips help out future candidates! Drop me a line if you … 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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