Tag: AHV

Metro Availability for AHV – Part 1 (Setup)

September 23, 2022August 9, 2023 | by Brandon Scott | Leave a Comment

In the most recent AOS LTS version 6.5 Metro Availability was added to further enhance resiliency against a total site failure by using synchronous replication coupled with witness network failure detection inside Prism Central. This post will explain how to easily setup Metro Availability for AHV. For more details see the link below… https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Leap-Xi-Leap-Admin-Guide-v2022_6:ecd-ecdr-witness-syncrep-pc-c.html Requirements: …

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P2V Migration to Nutanix AHV with vConverter

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 | by Brandon Scott | Leave a Comment

In this blog post I will detail how to use vConverter to migrate a Windows VM to Nutanix AHV in a 1-step data migration process. Note that this migration path is much more complex than a previous blog post about using HYCU Data Protection to perform this migration. Prerequisites: Download and install the Nutanix VirtIO …

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Nesting ESXi on Nutanix AHV

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 | by Brandon Scott | Leave a Comment

In this short blog I will be showing how to nest VMware vSphere ESXi on Nutanix AHV. At this point you may be asking a fairly obvious question…”Ummm, why?”. This will become clearer in a follow up blog post on using nested ESXi as a 1-step migration path to use vConverter for a physical to …

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