My Software Defined DataCenter

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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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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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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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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