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 […]
The importance of facetime (workshopping)
The global pandemic taught us (some of us already knew) that we could work collaboratively without being in the same room. Normally this is a decision taken through choice be it for logistics, timezone convenience, or doing our bit to save the planet but the pandemic effectively made it impossible to be in the same […]
One day an update will just work…
A quick post to acknowledge how annoying it is when the ‘pre check’ ahead of a simple upgrade passes – yet the upgrade itself fails and leaves the SDDC Manager broken and lonely. Todays issue was caused by the expiry of the root password on the management workload domain vCenter (PSC). You’d have thought a […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade/relaunch (Part 1)
One of my favourite customers are in Sweden and we were introduced to them around 5 years ago by a hardware vendor to help them with day 2+ services around developing their Horizon VDI environment that was deployed during the VCF bring up (VCF 2!). In those 5 years we’ve worked together we’ve completely rebuilt […]
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 […]
Finally… a blog
For what feels like years of saying ‘I really should write a blog’ and ‘I don’t have time to curate material that would be interesting for others’, I have realised that at least once a week I search my mailbox, or previous support tickets to find something I have done in the past and need […]