Customers has been running databases on top of Nutanix HCI for quite a few years and the number keeps increasing. One reason being is obviously the magic HCI solution but another major reason is the Nutanix Database Management solution, Era, which i believe you are already familiar with. No matter if you’re using Era or …
Just a quick note to let you know that i have updated the NDB, formerly known as Era, DB Reporting script with one new column, Database/Instance Status, which will be reported as the following: Information about the reporting script can be found in the original blog post which is available here. In short it let’s …
Updated 2021-12-01: New version available here —————————————————————————————— One thing that i usually discuss with organisations that are either implementing, evaluating or already running Nutanix Era is how they can do reporting. This is a pretty wide topic and can include multiple aspects and the type of report required varies based on what the report purpose …
Just realised that this blog post was never released for an unknown reason. Was supposed to be published back in June 2020 🙂 Anyway, I’m getting question around how Nutanix clones and snapshots actually works and based on that i decided to create an official Nutanix document around these two techniques. The Nutanix Acropolis Distributed …
Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) maintenance mode is the topic i’ll cover in this quick blog post. Reason being i have been asked about this a few times recently. First – Yes – CVM and hypervisor maintenance mode are two different things. Hypervisor maintenance mode means no virtual machines (VMs) will run on the hypervisor …
Approximately four years ago a wrote a two blog post series about Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) which are obsolete so do not refer to the below once for AHV HA functionality: Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part I Acropolis Virtual Machine High Availability – Part II Over the years I have …
I wouldn’t say on a weekly basis, but I receive questions about physical memory configurations, physical memory speed, balanced vs un-balanced memory configurations from time to time. Based on that I have put together a document which you can access via the Nutanix Portal. Things like maximum memory frequency or speed and the number of …
Based on some feedback of people actually using the reporting script I have added two more fields in the report for the 2.4 release. The additional reporting metrics are: Categories VM uuid Script still uses either Prism Element (the actual NutanixCluster) as source or both Prism Element and Prism Central. When using Prism Central you’ll …
Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. This release includes fixes to runtime output and to VM annotation/description filed including a comma sign. Example of script runtime output. Script still uses either Prism Element (the actual NutanixCluster) as source or both Prism Element and Prism Central. When using Prism Central …
Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. Two new columns are included in this version: VM Description vNUMA Configuration The VM Description information is available via Prism Element (Nutanix Cluster) but the vNUMA Configuration information is only available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if you want …
A new release, version 2.1, of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. I have been asked a few times about how to add information about when a VM was created and it is included in this version. However, the information is available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if …
I trust you have already seen this but i just need to do an extremely short blog post about a major achievement by Nutanix. A few days back the Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) together with the Nutanix hypervisor AHV, yes that’s correct, were certified to run production SAP HANA workloads. A while back Nutanix gained …
About 1.5 years ago I wrote a blog post about how to Change Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine Network Placement. This blog post is similar but the major difference is that you can virtual network for multiple VMs same time. This his is not a UI feature, it’s a script me and my colleague Art Perkins created a …
The following blog post will cover the steps taken when I migrated a Hyper-V 2012 R2 VM running Windows Server 2008, called VM01 below, to Nutanix AHV version 20170830.115 and Nutanix AOS version 5.6. Yeah I know that Windows 2008 R2 is not the most modern OS but that was the constraint in this case …
As you might know there are a few new AOS and AHV versions released since the last AHV Best Practices Guide (BPG) were released. Newest AOS releases are 5.6 and 5.5.2 depending on what release track you have chosen. The Updated AHV BPG still covers the following areas: Nutanix Acropolis Architecture AHV Networking Overview Networking …
The story continues, now Storware  with its product vProtect is added to the list of backup & restore solutions with built-in AHV support. Great news for everyone since it give each customer even more freedom of choice. ¨This means the following third-party vendors now support backing up AHV based VMs: Cohesity Commvault Comtrade Software HYCU …