5+ years, two power supplies, and various configurations later the day has come to retire the little faithful EdgeRouter that has served this household well. With a near daily frequency of it just dropping the WAN interface until a reboot, the ‘Dad, the WiFi is down again!‘ cries from the internal customers has forced my […]
Patch Management Engine
Over the holiday break, I have been enrolling devices into our Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) tooling and seeing what quick wins could be realised. One of the first things we do after installing the RMM agent across an environment is to allow the ‘Detect Only‘ patch management task to run. This task runs twice […]
SMB over QUIC – Utter genius
I recently discovered when deploying a new VM for a customer the mention of Azure Edition on Windows Server 2022 and at the time glossed over what it really meant, hotpatch, reducing reboots oh that’s neat. But no, I missed the absolute cracker that is SMB over QUIC, effectively a VPN for SMB letting folks […]
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 […]
Nerdiocon 2023
Reflecting after the second day of networking with and learning from fellow specialists in the EUC arena. The one thought that I can’t escape from is from todays keynote where Vadim (Nerdio) and Kyle (Huntress) chat about just how fast the bad guys are evolving their attacks and how the game of cat and mouse […]
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 […]
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 […]