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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
Trunking VMs in the GUI with Nutanix
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
Posted in Computing, Network, Nutanix, Virtualization Tagged networking, Nutanix, virtual machines Leave a 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
Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6.10 Prism Element
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Disaster Recovery, Nutanix, Virtualization, VMware Tagged Asynchronous, disaster recovery, Nutanix, Prism Element Leave a comment
Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6.10 and Prism Central 2024.2 (Overview)
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Disaster Recovery, Nutanix, Virtualization Tagged AOS, Asynchronous, disaster recovery, ESXi, Hyper-V, Metro, Nutanix, Prism Central Leave a comment
Learn from home
<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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Upgrading to 6.7: A problem occurred
Ran into an issue while updating one of my 6.5 vCenter servers, where it inexplicably reported: A problem occurred while getting data from the source vCenter Server. A quick peek at the installer log showed : 2019-11-23T21:32:47.402Z – info: Stream … Continue reading
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VCAP Exam links
As referred to in my VMUG talk “Taking and Passing VMware Advanced Certifications” Let me know if you find any other good links or if any of these quit working. Join the conversation in the VCP group on LinkedIn Covering … Continue reading
Posted in Certification, Virtualization, VMware Tagged badges, certification, CIA, CMA, DCA, DCV, DTM, exams, vcap, VCIX Leave a comment
vRealize Network Insight with E/W or N/S
tl/dr: RFC1918 (private) addresses are categorized as E/W by VRNI by default, non-RFC1918 (public) addresses are categorized as N/S by default. You can flag private as N/S or public as E/W to ensure the reports reflect your environment. Looking over the … Continue reading
VCAP DCV 6.5 Deploy a.k.a VMware Certified Advanced Professional — Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2018 a.k.a 3V0-21.18
<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
Posted in Certification, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged 6.5, DCV, vcap, VCAP-DCV, VSAN, vSphere 38 Comments
