I recently wrote about ‘Nutanix on Cisco‘ exploring the navigating of Cisco Intersight Standard Mode (ISM), vs Cisco Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) and where depending upon which Cisco server nodes you had, and which switches you had led you to a decision. Foundation Central 1.7.1 and some magnificent joint engineering with Cisco has helped close […]
Prism Central (hosted externally to Nutanix)
As Prism Central has continued to mature, and increase in complexity (microservices, external storage groups, etc) there has been an increased focus on folks hosting it within a Prism Element cluster. Makes sense right? That’s how we often did it with vCenter, we’d plonk it onto the vSphere/ESXi cluster it was managing. But there may […]
After crashcart foundation_url error?
A weird one we’ve seen a couple of times recently on OEM equipment being shipped from the factory built on AOS 6.8.1. When you run Crashcart to configure IPs the task fails to complete, citing an inability to contact a Foundation url. We’re not using Foundation at this point. We believed this was where the […]
Crashcart ‘node may be in a cluster’ error
From time to time we have to run the Nutanix crashcart /usr/local/bin/network-crashcart to configure the AHV+CVM network IPs. This command has some guard rails in place to stop it working when the host is already in a cluster (very sensible!) but sometimes those guard rails are a little too tight and it doesn’t work even […]
Flow Next Generation Security (FNS NG) 5.1 Upgrade
Following on from a post outlining easier release vehicles we recently completed an AOS 7.0 upgrade for a customer, splitting the upgrades over maintenance windows – the last piece of the puzzle being the upgrade of Flow Network Security Next Generation 5.0 to 5.1. Flow Network Security ‘Next Generation’ (FNS NG) is deployed in a […]
IGMP snooping on Nutanix AHV
Had an escalation this week where a customer was moving from ESXi on AHV on self-built new clusters. All built and tested (shifting from ESXi on 10GbE, to AHV on 25GbE and moving from leaf switches to TOR switches) – all OK in NCC and smoke tested fine. But… problems occurred quickly when loaded up […]
‘All in’ on the Microsoft licensing – Hello Teams Telephony!
We’ve touched before on a trend where we’re seeing customers doubling down or going all in on their Microsoft licensing by using using more of the products within it than ever before. This, whilst driving down technical debt, trying to reduce the sprawl of vendor solutions – and ultimately reducing moving parts through integrations is […]
VMware VCP-VCF Certification
Something I do like about Broadcom is the ease of accessing their training resources, and free of charge if you’re able to work with the self-paced online materials, and then just pay for the exam though the nearest test centre is a bit further away than my kitchen where I normally take my proctored exams. […]
VDI Sync (improved in Files 5.1)
If you’ve ever designed a multi-site VDI implementation you’ve likely faced the conundrum of how to handle user profiles for your users, or rather, how to avoid their wrath when something is out of sync when you make the fact they’re connecting to multiple resource locations transparent to them. For years we’ve worked through the […]
Nutanix on Cisco
(this has updated in March where Cisco C Series Rack + Intersight Managed Mode IMM is supported – https://itskimpossible.blog/foundation-central-1-7-1-cisco-imm-ahv-10-0-1/ ) As vendor agnostic picture painters, we at Cutter have deployed many vendor cloud infrastructure platforms on top of various server hardware vendors integrating with a plethora of network vendors. Whether it was blue, green, red […]