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Metro Availability for AHV – Part 1 (Setup)

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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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Nesting ESXi on Nutanix AHV

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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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P2V Windows to Nutanix AHV with HYCU Data Protection

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In this article we will walk through a physical to virtual migration of a Windows 2012+ physical system to Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). To perform this we are using HYCU Data Protection which is a complete backup and recovery solution for Nutanix (AHV, ESXi, Physical Windows). By the end of this blog you should have …

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