Exam Experience: NCM-MCI 6.10

Exam Experience: NCM-MCI 6.10

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Last Monday I sat and passed this exam (https://www.nutanix.com/support-services/training-certification/certifications/certification-details-ncm-mci#) and I am writing a small article for anyone interested in doing this exam and looking for what to expect. First of all, I sat this exam at home, so I had my own setup that I could use for the exam. It is not an exam with multiple choice questions, where you have to select the right answer, it is scenario-based. You get between 16 and 20 scenario’s where you…

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Building a Windows Cluster on Nutanix

Building a Windows Cluster on Nutanix

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Next topic of studying for me, is around Nutanix Unified Storage. I like storage and so that is the topic I wanted to learn more about, but not by just studying, I want to see how this will behave in a real-life scenario. So I decided to build something like this: This brings back some memories as well, since in the “old days” (around the start of the century, before I dove head first into virtualization), I deployed many Windows…

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Flow Virtual Networking – Building VPC’s with Transit

Flow Virtual Networking – Building VPC’s with Transit

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After I build my Nutanix lab environment (New Tech: Nutanix CE and New Tech: Deploy Nutanix Prism Central) and creating two VPC’s (one without and one with NAT Flow Virtual Networking – Basic VPC and Adding a VPC with NAT on Flow Virtual Networking), the next step I wanted to take was create a network where I am leveraging a Transit VPC to connect several VPC’s: So the NAT’ing will take place on the internal side, between the VPC02 and…

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Adding a VPC with NAT on Flow Virtual Networking

Adding a VPC with NAT on Flow Virtual Networking

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A little while back, I created a non-NAT VPC, with BGP routing, to allow VM’s to be fully routed in my virtual environment. As I am now studying for the NCM-MCI exam, I wanted to look a little further in to FVN. First step here, is to create a new VPC, based on NAT. This is more or less the best practice, when doing VPC’s, so this shouldn’t be to difficult. No need for BGP and such… So, the target…

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Data Protection with Prism Elements

Data Protection with Prism Elements

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Besides Disaster Recovery with Prism Central, there is also Data Protection available in Prism Elements. So after setting up DR for the Windows VM’s in: https://my-sddc.net/disaster-recovery-with-prism-central/, I am trying something similar for the Linux VM’s, by leveraging Prism Elements. First step for this, is define the clusters as eachothers “Remote Site”: Here I can also directly create a mapping between Networks and between Storage Containers: After the Remote Sites have been set-up, I can create a “Protection Domain”, that contains…

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Disaster Recovery with Prism Central

Disaster Recovery with Prism Central

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Studying for the NCP-MCI exam, I ran into the fact that I needed to know more about Disaster Recovery. I did the training modules, but that doesn’t seem enough to pass the exam, I think. I took some of the available test exams on Nutanix University and felt that some hands-on experience would be necessary. I already have two clusters set-up, so I am going to protect some VM’s from both clusters to the other and try and get some…

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Migrate VM’s with Nutanix Move

Migrate VM’s with Nutanix Move

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I’m following a course to get myself certified on the Nutanix Tech and one of the topics I ran into, was migrating with Nutanix Move. So I thought, besides do the module, I would also try it out for real. So I started with downloading and installing the Move appliance on my Nutanix cluster: I am using the following sequence: Download Nutanix Move Well, that is easy enough. Just go to: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/downloads?product=move (if you have an account, with the right…

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Expand root volume for AHV host

Expand root volume for AHV host

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Fist of all, a disclaimer. This is not the supported method to handle this. If you run into this issue, open a support case and have Nutanix Support help you remediate the issue. Second discaimer, this was not the solution for the problem I faced. I am still looking into that. For my environment, I am running Nutanix CE on a nested host in a non-production environment, so I didn’t want to bother support and this was a learning opportunity…

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BGP on Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking (FVN)

BGP on Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking (FVN)

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After creating my first (okay, third ;)) VPC, in the previous post: Flow Virtual Networking – Basic VPC, I wanted to take a look at dynamic routing. Since BGP is the supported dynamic routing protocol for FVN, that is the way to go. I already configured my pfSense with FRR BGP, so there I only need to add the new neigbors, but on the Prism Central side, there is some more configuring to do. There is also something to take…

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Flow Virtual Networking – Basic VPC

Flow Virtual Networking – Basic VPC

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After I build my Nutanix lab environment (New Tech: Nutanix CE and New Tech: Deploy Nutanix Prism Central), the next step I wanted to take was create the virtual networking components to be able to communicate internally and externally. For this, I am going to start of by building the following: I made a choice to use “No NAT” as opposed to NAT, because that will make all of the internal IP addresses directly reachable through “plain” routing. That also…

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