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Disaster Recovery (Metro / 0 RPO) with Nutanix Prism Central 2024.2
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Disaster Recovery, Nutanix, Storage, Virtualization Tagged disaster recovery, Metro, Nutanix, Prism Central, RPO 1 Comment
Creating a Nutanix VM from a qcow2 image
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Nutanix, Storage, Virtualization Tagged Deploy, image, Nutanix, Prism Central, VM Leave a comment
VMWorld 2018: Monday
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
Posted in CLI, Cloud, Computing, Disaster Recovery, Security, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged AWC, HCX, NSX, VMC Leave a comment
VMWorld 2018: Sunday Funday!
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
Posted in API, Certification, CLI, Cloud, Computing, Scripting, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged vcap, VCIX, vmworld Leave a comment
vSphere 6.5 iSCSI port binding
I was goofing around with my home lab and ran into an interesting tidbit regarding iSCSI port binding in 6.5. The documentation from VMware says: Browse to the host in the vSphere Web Client navigator. Click the Configure tab. Under Networking, click Virtual switches, and select … Continue reading
VCAP6-DCV Deploy Sample Question 9
Sample Question Intro HOL: HOL-1810-01-SDC – Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere Prerequisites: None Lab: Module 3 :Introduction to vSphere Storage : Creating and Configuring vSphere Datastores Question 9 New hosts have been provisioned to the environment and existing storage needs … Continue reading
Miscellaneous 1 (TestTrack Unplugged)
I’ll assume you read the first post in the series or saw the list of all of the scenarios. Miscellaneous 1 Things to note: “Create a file . to set up the new . hosts . configuration matches . existing … Continue reading
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Virtual Machines 2 (TestTrack Unplugged)
I’ll assume you read the first post in the series or saw the list of all of the scenarios. Virtual Machines 2 Things to note: “Ensure RAM can be added to the App virtual machine without downtime.” = Hot Plug. … Continue reading
Posted in Certification, PowerShell, Scripting, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged certification, vcap, VCAP-DCA, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP6-DCV, VCIX Leave a comment
Storage 3 (TestTrack unplugged series)
I’ll assume you read the first post in the series. Storage 3 Things to note: “created on the array in the future” = Don’t change PSP on any current LUN, just change the default for the array so new ones … Continue reading
Posted in Certification, Computing, PowerShell, Scripting, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged certification, vcap, VCAP-DCA, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP6-DCV, VCIX 2 Comments
Storage 2 (TestTrack Unplugged series)
I’ll assume you read the first post in the series. Storage 2 The initial note to delete Payroll is only seen on TestTrack – you won’t want to undo anything on the real exam as no scoring is done until … Continue reading
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