Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT tools) is a package of drivers and services. Drivers for Virtual Machine storage controller and network adapter. Along with drivers, you can install two additional services: Self-Service Restore (SSR) Volume...
Automation is everywhere, in the public cloud, private cloud, security, software development, sysadmin day to day tasks. Basically, any repeatable task is usually automated one way or another. In this post, I will show...
VMware vSphere 7 support on Nutanix platform Starting with AOS 5.15.2 (LTS) and AOS 5.17.1, Nutanix introduced VMware vSphere 7 support. Now, you can upgrade your vSphere ESXi to version 7 on the Nutanix...
Thousands of Nutanix customers have clusters deployed with VMware vSphere. VMware vSphere was the first hypervisor supported by Nutanix and has a long and successful history. As we know, the vCenter Server is one...
In this blog post, you will find the Nutanix Leap Asynchronous replication port diagram. Support for Asynchronous replication in Nutanix Leap was introduced with Nutanix AOS 5.11. With Nutanix Asynchronous replication you can protect...
Sending logs to an external syslog server is very common practice across many industries. The main reason to send logs to the external location is security or industry compliance. It helps to find out...
Configure Nutanix Metro Availability Witness. What is Nutanix Metro Availability Witness? Extract from Nutanix official documentation: A “Witness” is a special VM that monitors the Metro Availability configuration health. The Witness resides in...
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...
Nutanix Acropolis OS supports several storage protocols like NFS, SMB3, iSCSI due to broad hypervisor support (Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2). For migration purposes you can mount Acropolis container onto...
From time to time every admin must do BIOS upgrade on the hosts. It may be vendor recommendation, security issue and so on. With Nutanix you can use One-Click upgrade to do BIOS upgrades....
