I encountered a situation recently I hadn’t come across before where protection policies between two availability zones weren’t placing recovery points in a logical (to me) place on the target site. Initially this was surprising because I could not see the ‘default’ container on the target site growing in usage from the replicated recovery points […]
What’s next? A plague of locusts?
The world we live in it is fair to say, develops and changes at a moments notice, at breakneck speed, in directions nobody predicted until 5 minutes after it happened. Sure, of course some things are predictable, some things do meander along a well-defined path, without being ‘the kind that blindside you at 4 PM […]
Nvidia DLS – Quick deploy with HA on Nutanix AHV
A colleague asked me to peer review a Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD) on Nutanix design that would be across datacentres and leverage Nvidia GPUs. We got onto the decision of the ‘old’ way of providing high-availability for the Nvidia licensing service and looking at which API calls we could use to determine health. […]
Nutanix Move 5.x – Files Sync & Migration
Nutanix Move 5.0 introduced a fantastic new feature that allows us to move away from handwriting robocopy/richcopy scripts to migrate data into Nutanix Files. Whilst it was possible to migrate natively with Nutanix Files using a Files Migration Plan it came with some limitations notably not supporting deduplication which could cause problems. I was thrilled […]
Nutanix X-Ray 4.3.3 release
(shamelessly ripped from Angelo / release notes and stashed here for a quick tweet link!) X-Ray 4.3.3 Release Announcement X-Ray 4.3.3 is now GA! This impact-packed release has 3 new tests, cluster power metrics, test improvements, G9 test data, and more. Highlights: New! Drive Failure and Data Rebuilt test: What better way to demonstrate AOS’s […]
Brain dump on Citrix templates within Nutanix AHV
A colleague from a non Nutanix Citrix background asked me for a quick brain dump of things to pay attention to when it comes to bringing Nutanix AHV to the party. I thought it useful to share (in a very raw format) the brain dump… VMware Tools traditionally provided both VMware proprietary drivers (VMXNET3, Paravirtual […]
Snapshots and recovery points
If you are familiar with VMware vSphere you’ll appreciate the ease of creating a snapshot of a virtual machine and being able to ‘roll back’ to that point in time if something bad happens soon after. Microsoft Hyper-V has a similar concept with checkpoints. Nutanix with AHV on a cluster level (Prism Element) supports the […]
Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2022
Disclaimer: I have always been a staunch supporter of technology, sometimes the underdog (looking at you Sun Microsystems with Sun Ray, & SGD) and sometimes the champion (VMware, Nutanix) but always for the right reasons – the best tool for the job, and the customer. This has often left me (and my wider team) in […]