AHV 20160925.30 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Veritas NetBackup with Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide Available

magander — Wed, 17 May 2017 13:17:24 +0000

In addition to the “Veritas NetBackup with Nutanix & vSphere Best Practices Guide Available” which you can read about here there is now a “Veritas NetBackup with Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide” available. The following topics are included in the guide: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Overview In-Guest VM Backup and Restore Component Overview Component Sizing …

Nutanix AHV Network Configuration – Only Use 10Gbps NICs

magander — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:20:46 +0000

When you implement Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) all the available network cards (NICs) will by default be added the the single bridge (br0) created during the AHV installation and all the NICs attached to a network switch will be used. There are two ways available to determine the actual configuration: PRISM Click the Network link in …

Change Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine Network Placement

magander — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:51:47 +0000

Updated 2018-08-17: If you want to change virtual network for multiple VMs same time, check out Nutanix AHV – Change Virtual Network For Multiple VMs This blog post will cover how to change virtual machine (VM) network adapter (NIC) to AHV network mapping. You got two options to do this: PRISM – You need to delete …

Change Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine Disk Bus Type

magander — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:25:27 +0000

I have had a few questions about how to change bus type for a Nutanix AHV based virtual machine (VM) over the past month so this blog post will be how to change the disk bus type for a CentOS 7.3 based VM running on the Nutanix hypervisor AHV. You can add new disk and also delete …

Change AHV Based Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) RAM

magander — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:01:25 +0000

A few days ago i changed Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) Memory configuration for a customer. There is a Nutanix KB about this which can be found here here but since it includes manual steps i figure i create a script which you can run from the AHV host. This blog post is divided into the following sections: …