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 …
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 …
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 …
