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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
No, the “dot” is not a typ-o, I’ll explain in a minute. First let me take you back to the situation I found myself in about a year ago. I was working as a Technical Account/Adoption Manager (TAM) at VMware which had been acquired by Broadcom a year before that. In my head, I was still a part of VMware and I was waiting it out to see what the acquisition by Broadcom would entail for both my customers, colleagues,…
After building my Nutanix CE cluster (https://my-sddc.net/new-tech-nutanix-ce/), it is time to start looking at the Enterprise capabilities. For this, we will be leveraging Prism Central. Installation of Prism Central is very easy, but there are some requirements. They are detailed in: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-vpc_2024_3_1:mul-cmsp-overview-pc-c.html. I am aiming for this setup: Just a heads up, I deliberately chose to document all the things I did to get to the end result. In my case, that meant: But in the end, it brought me…
After playing around with HPE VM Essentials (and a little bit of Morpheus), the next vendor I will be taking a closer look at, is Nutanix. They have been a long and strong partner for PQR and in the past (before I moved to VMware) I even held some Nutanix certifications. But that is a long time ago, so I am treating this as a completely new product. I will be using an excellent blog that already partially describes the…
After completing my previous blog https://my-sddc.net/new-tech-vm-essentials-a-more-serious-deployment/ there have been some developments. One of which is the fact that HPE came out with a new verion, another is that I learned there is an integrated installation available. This includes both Ubuntu 24.04 and the new version of HPE VME (version 8.0.8). The file I am using for installation is called “HVM_Install_24.04.ISO_8.0.8_S5Q83-11031.iso” After powering on, the installation screen is a little different, it now says “HVM Install 24.04”: And also the screens…
After creating a fairly simple, but working HPE VM Essentials deployment (see https://my-sddc.net/new-tech-hpe-morpheus-vme/), it’s time to make a more serious deployment. In the previous blog I took networking and storage for granted, but in real life scenarios, those topics need a more serious approach. So I am making a “design” for a small customer, that will have three VME hosts, use iSCSI, NFS ánd local storage for their VM’s and use VLAN’s to differentiate between different traffic flows. I am…