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...
Category: Powershell
Sample script to gather database inventory report from Nutanix Era.
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...
Issue with installing Nuget provider
A few days ago I was trying to deploy the latest version of VMware PowerCLi on my workstation. Before you can install it, you have to have the NuGet provider installed. When I did...
PowerShell script to collect vCPU to pCPU ratio on Nutanix AHV cluster.
My good friend, Stephane Bourdeaud, wrote a PowerShell script that pulls vCPU to pCPU ratio on Nutanix AHV clusters connected to Prism Central. Link to Stephane’s Git repo with the latest script version you...
Nutanix AHV networking configuration and mass deployment.
In Nutanix AHV networking terminology the network (in VMware vSphere world you call it portgroup), is a logical component of the networking stack where Virtual Machine virtual NIC is plugged in to. In the...
Asynchronous tasks in PowerCLI or “be careful what you task for”.
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...
Rather simple way to include vRealize Operations Manager sizing recommendations in your good ol’ inventory report.
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...
Unleash the awesome superpowers of the Nutanix PowerShell cmdlets
I don’t know if you are like me, but I’m a scripting nut. I figure that if I have to do something once, there is a fair chance I’ll have to do it again...
Guest OS disk usage script revisited.
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...
When HA kicks (in) and you’re not quite ready…
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)...
