Nutanix Era capacity thresholds. With a PowerShell script to check them!
My second post about Nutanix Era doesn’t constitute “a series” yet, but we can be off for a good start! Era is the tool to go with, for anyone, who wants to run databases...
My second post about Nutanix Era doesn’t constitute “a series” yet, but we can be off for a good start! Era is the tool to go with, for anyone, who wants to run databases...
Nutanix Era (or simply “Era”) is a database management tool, designed to help customers, who run their databases on top of Nutanix Clusters, get the best of hyperconverged infrastructure during the whole database lifecycle.If...
This post is about one of the most challenging PowerCLI scripts I was asked to write so far. Unfortunately I will not present the script itself, simply because it is way too long and...
Everybody has one. Good ol’ “VM inventory report” The moment your infrastructure outgrows kindergarten size of ~50 VMs, you either start exporting list of VMs from Web/vSphere Client on regular basis, or you search...
So two weeks ago today, on December 22nd, 2014 I had my VCAP5-DCD exam scheduled (the 5.5 version). I was honestly hoping to share with you some of my positive experience about it, only…...
The title of this post is obviously inspired by (rather epic) movie of “Black Hawk Down”. Now that you know it’s gonna be some serious business, here comes a Disclaimer: Procedure described below is derived from author’s...
I was recently asked to re-write my good ol’ script that retrieves disk usage from virtual machines and formats this information into nice’n’tidy CSV report. My “customer” wanted to have some more data included in...
vSphere HA functionality is definitely one of the top contributors to success of VMware virtualization. But have you ever been in a situation, when one of your vSphere hosts failed (say, in the night)...
As I boasted off in one of my previous posts already, I recently (well – two months ago, on September 1st, 2014) passed the VDCA550 exam. In this post I would like to share my...
OK, after reading the title of this post you might have thought something like: “Well, this guy must have been born yesterday” or “What now? Are we really reinventing the wheel here?”. And yeah,...