Adding NICs and to nested hosts on AHV and building a shared Virtual Switch.

Adding NICs and to nested hosts on AHV and building a shared Virtual Switch.

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I am back at labbing, with some help of an internal project, that allows us to deploy nested clusters on top of Nutanix CE. So I now have the ability to deploy the latest and greatest AOS/AHV clusters, within the hour, on top of my (already installed) HPE Proliant Gen9. So, to recap, this is the environment I am building towards: So in essence, I want to leave the current vs0 as it has been created by the automatic cluster…

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Remove a non-responding cluster from Prism Central

Remove a non-responding cluster from Prism Central

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Disclaimer: This is done in a lab-environment, if you need to do this in a production environment, check with Nutanix Support how to clean up a non-responding cluster from Prism Central. In a lab environment, you sometimes need to clean-up in a more forceable manner. After messing up a cluster, for instance, I needed to remove it from Prism Central, before I could redeploy and readd it. So, first, I powered down and removed the VMs, and after that, I…

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Nutanix on Nutanix

Nutanix on Nutanix

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(Or more precisely AOS+AHV on AOS+AHV). I received a question from a customer about the possibilities of running a nested Nutanix based lab based on what I had described in earlier posts. But it also got me thinking about the next phase of my lab-journey, namely, running the nested lab on AHV instead on vSphere. I have a long history with vSphere of course (and it’s predecessor VI) and I still am fond of it, but I wanted to find…

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Nutanix CE with AOS and Prism Central 7.5 (but older version of AHV)

Nutanix CE with AOS and Prism Central 7.5 (but older version of AHV)

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At the moment of writing this, Nutanix CE is available for deployment, with AOS 6.8.1 and the corresponding AHV (don’t know the exact version, but it is somewhere in the vicinity of AHV-20230302.101026. When you deploy this, you can upgrade, through to the 7.0 branch, with AHV 10.0, but if you want to go further than that, you run into issues when you run on a nested environment, as I do. There is no supported method to upgrade AHV beyond…

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Anti Affinity policy shows “Pending” on Prism Central

Anti Affinity policy shows “Pending” on Prism Central

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I received a question from a customer. There were some issues with anti-affinity rules in their environment, where the status would stay on “Pending”, after they had created an anti-affinity rule for VM’s. In my lab-environment I tried this out as well and, at first, ran into the same issue. This is my environment: As you can see, I have two clusters, connected to one Prism Central. I usually have my lab shut down and power it on, when needed….

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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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