Author: Brandon Scott

Prism Pro X-Play (Codeless datacenter automation)

In this blog post I will show a new feature added to the Prism Pro product within the Prism Central management plane called X-Play or “Cross-play”. This enhancement to the Prism Pro feature set is a major step towards an autonomous or “self-driving” datacenter that was discussed in the .Next 2019 keynotes in Anaheim, CA (check …

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Nutanix per VM QoS (IOps/Throughput throttling)

In this post I will discuss a new feature to AOS 5.11  called Storage QoS. Storage QoS is essentially rate limiting a specific virtual machine so that it does not exceed a certain IOPs or Throughput threshold. Now before we dig in and show how Nutanix has implemented QoS and how it can be enabled we …

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Nutanix Move for AWS (Linux)

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 …

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Linear Performance with Nutanix Architecture

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 …

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Nutanix Full Site Disaster Recovery

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 …

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Restoring Windows Files using Nutanix Self Service Restore

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 …

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Configuring Nutanix Protection Domain

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 …

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Installing Nutanix Guest Tools on Windows (NGT)

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 …

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