Traditionally we’ve faced a choice when deploying Nutanix NC2 on Azure when it came to the Flow Gateway. With static routing (User Defined Routes – UDR) within Azure, the route table only supported directing traffic to a single IP address – so a single Flow Gateway. Or with Dynamic Routing within Azure, we could use […]
AVD, Nerdio, & Nutanix AHV all together now
Just a huge wow, I was fortunate enough to attend NerdioCon in Cancun a few years ago where Microsoft then announced support for on-premises extension of Azure Virtual Desktop using Azure Stack HCI (aka Azure Local now). But now, there’s a public preview supporting Nutanix AHV bringing all of that goodness to the Nutanix ecosystem […]
Design, & deploy defensively
Frequently I’m asked why I always recommend building and testing a defensive design, one that has a chance of surviving first contact. The answer is simple, I’ve been burnt, and seen others burned by design decisions that made sense at the time but didn’t stand the test of time or the ‘what if?’ test. A […]
Taming Cloud Chaos: The Nutanix Champions Perspective
A totally shameless plug to join some of us talking NKP, the cloudy future of applications, and how us traditional IT infrastructure people have had to learn some new tricks to innovate and support our developer communities. Taming Cloud Chaos: The Nutanix Champions Perspective
New year faff, same story but different ending…
It all started a week or so ago with the having to restart my Windows workstation each morning before my day started because it was painfully laggy, and showing read latency on the boot disk that only seemed to ease up after a reboot, for a short while. Nothing fun in resource monitor to show […]
Omnissa on Nutanix AHV – a delightful relief
It’s no great surprise that my experience with Horizon (I’m of the age where I remember when it was View) in recent years has me rather excited to see the General Availability (GA) of support for Nutanix AHV. This has been a long time coming with Omnissa spinning out of VMware into its own entity […]
Upgrading old CentOS to new Rocky Linux
Today I was faced with a challenge, I have had an old CentOS 7 machine tucked well behind a secure enclave seeing out its days for a while now and sadly it has surpassed the life expectancy a few times so it was time to do something about it. The machine itself is a simple […]
Horizon – Desktop ‘configuration error’
A very quick post to serve as a memory jogger in the future – we had a desktop pool all of a sudden have desktops show ‘configuration error’ after finishing cloning. Monitoring the reclone process for a test we could see the desktop sit on ‘starting other agent services’ for a few minutes before settling […]
NKP – Moving cluster resources fails
If you’ve deployed NKP in a lab environment you may have come across this common error message during the deployment. Initially I wondered if it was a timing issue with my lab not being very fast – but I could consistently reproduce it even with other resources switched off. bash$ KUBECONFIG=kim-nkp-ntnx01-bootstrap.conf kubectl delete cluster kim-nkp-ntnx01 […]
VyOS – VXLAN Layer 2 Subnet Extension & VRRP
A tip of the hat to the marvellously clever Jonas Werner over at https://jonamiki.com/posts/layer-2-extension-with-vyos/ who gave me some tips for the start of this journey. We recently had a customer who needed to stretch several Layer 2 Subnets up to Microsoft Azure for a Nutanix NC2 deployment – but coming from a non Nutanix on-premises […]