Move (formerly Xtract) from Nutanix has been an ever evolving product. The first two capabilities were “Xtract for DBs” and “Xtract for VMs“. The newest addition to the Move family is the capability to migrate VMs from AWS to a local Nutanix cluster running AHV as the hypervisor! We now have a simple way to …
In this post I will walk through how we would remove a node from an existing Nutanix cluster with a couple of clicks and monitor the progress of the node removal. You may ask, “Why would I want to remove a node from an existing cluster“. Well, one scenario may be if you have …
In this post I will walk through what enables the Nutanix architecture to inherently allow for linear scalability of performance as the virtualization cluster scales out as compared to scaling out the virtualization cluster in a legacy 3-tier environment. Scaling 3-Tier First let’s walk through what scaling a 3-tier environment would look like. For the …
In this post I will walk through how to expand a Nutanix cluster with a new node. As you read through this short blog remember that it is short INTENTIONALLY because this process (as with all other Nutanix processes) is meant to be easy with our 1-click methodology. Think about the steps taken to expand …
In this post I will walk through a full site failover using the intelligence built into the Nutanix Prism Software. The failover will be initiated from the DR location simulating a full site failure and the steps to bring up your VMs/Volume Groups at the remote site. Note: This post makes the following assumptions. The …
In this post I will go through a step by step deployment of configuring and testing Nutanix’s native Self Service Restore utility included in the Professional and Ultimate licenses tiers of the Acropolis software. The topic of discussion will be Windows file-level recovery. General Requirements and Limitations of Self-Service Restore Set disk.enableUUID=true in the .vmx …
In this post I will walk through how to configure VMs in a Nutanix Protection Domain. For General Guidelines and Limitations please refer to the following LINK Configuring Your VM(s) in a Protection Domain In Part 2 I will walk through how to configure a Protection Domain on your Nutanix cluster. A Protection Domain is …
In this post I will walk through installing Nutanix Guest Tools on a Windows VM. General Requirements and Limitations Virtual IP address must be configured on the Nutanix cluster. If the virtual IP address of the cluster changes, it will impact all the NGT instances that are running in your cluster. For more information, see …
“DevOps“, that infamous “word” that has been circling the IT community for many years now. What is it? Why do I care? Most will say DevOps is a fantasy world where developers and operations teams are BFFs, they sing ‘Kumbaya’ at their weekly double rainbow viewing parties while happily playing ping pong during which time …
In this post I will make my case for taking an honest look at HCI versus a 3-tier infrastructure. The aim here is to be objective and to provide a fair and balanced view of each architecture to allow for an honest comparison when reviewing how the future of your datacenter will be architected.Figure 1: …
