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  • Issues with DCBX and LLDP on NX-OS 10.x

    calendar Mar 14, 2025 · 6 min read · AHV Bug Home Lab Nexus Networking  ·
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    Issues with DCBX and LLDP on NX-OS 10.x

    I recently deployed a new Nexus 93180YC-EX switch into my home lab, to replace the aging 9372PX. Sure, for a home lab this was fine, but I wanted to get up to some 25Gbe speeds! I've got various equipment connected to that old Nexus, with 2 Nutanix clusters and single VMware cluster, plus various other things, nothing …


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  • Mastering Maintenance Mode Operations: Part 2 - vSphere

    calendar Jan 27, 2024 · 10 min read · nutanix maintenance-mode vsphere vmware operations  ·
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    Welcome back to my series on maintenance operations with Nutanix! In Part 1, I reviewed some scenarios on using maintenance mode with Nutanix AHV, using both Maintenance Mode functions within Prism Element and the CLI. As a quick recap from Part 1, you can use both the GUI functionality in AOS 6.x+ to place a host in …


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  • Zerto v10: Unleashing Ransomware Resilience

    calendar May 24, 2023 · 6 min read · zerto ransomware replication disaster-recovery data-protection  ·
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    In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the availability, protection, and recovery of data and applications is paramount. Organizations need robust solutions to address the challenges of multi-cloud environments, cyber threats, and data loss incidents. Enter Zerto, and specifically Virtual Replication v10, a …


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  • FMCv 7.2 Upgrade Gotchas on AHV

    calendar Jul 1, 2022 · 1 min read · cisco firepower fmc ahv nutanix troubleshooting  ·
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    Posting this more as a note to myself as a reminder and to also read the release notes a bit more carefully! After recently going thru an upgrade of the Firepower Management Center from 7.0.x to 7.2 FMCv, specifically on the Nutanix AHV platform I ran into a bug where the VM would not boot after the upgrade. While the …


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  • Zerto Linux ZVM - Finally Available!

    calendar Jun 8, 2022 · 3 min read · zerto replication linux disaster-recovery vsphere  ·
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    Finally, Zerto has released a Linux based appliance for the Zerto Virtual Manager role. Finally! Now to be clear, I don't mean to use the term finally in a negative sense with Zerto, more of a sense of happiness that it's now available with the latest release of Zerto 9.5. Since there's still some limitations around …


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  • Saved by Pure Storage: Ransomware Recovery Success

    calendar Feb 24, 2021 · 3 min read · pure-storage ransomware disaster-recovery data-protection security snapshots  ·
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    This past weekend, I got to experience with another customer an unexpected intrusion, one of the worst I’ve honestly experienced in my years. Once I was onsite and got to see the level of sophistication on this attack, I realized that we had our work cutout for us. Backup solution, gone… User Files, hijacked… VMFS …


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  • ESXi Services Disabled in NCC Health Check

    calendar Aug 10, 2017 · 3 min read · nutanix ncc esxi vsphere troubleshooting health-check  ·
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    This week I had the pleasure of deploying 2 more Nutanix blocks on behalf of one our partners, who is now starting to highly recommend Nutanix for their customer deployments of critical systems. The installation was pretty vanilla, 3 NX-1065-G5 nodes at the Primary site and matching at the DR site. For the VMware …


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  • Zerto Replication SQL Server Tuning: Lessons Learned

    calendar Jul 31, 2017 · 5 min read · zerto replication sql-server performance-tuning disaster-recovery  ·
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    3.5 hours down to 6.5 minutes… Recently I went thru a project to get Zerto Replication up and running for a Emergency Dispatch Customer who was moving away from RecoverPoint and SRM in an effort to simplify and consolidate their DR runbooks. As part of this project, we created multiple VPGs to match up with their …


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  • Cisco ASA Dropped Traffic Notice: Critical Bug Alert

    calendar Mar 31, 2017 · 2 min read · cisco-asa bug security firewall field-notice  ·
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    Cisco seems to be having a rough go of it lately with bugs that have a time bomb for certain hardware and software. Following up on the Signal Component issues – that plagued a large number of product lines (And in Cisco’s defense affected more than just Cisco – other vendors are affetected). I’m still waiting to find …


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  • Installing ManageEngine OpUtils on CentOS 7

    calendar Nov 13, 2015 · 4 min read · linux oputils centos ipam  ·
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    Background I’ve been using ManageEngine’s OpUtils product for a few years now for IP Address Management (IPAM). While it has a lot of other great features, I’ve really liked the way they do IPAM. Yes, Microsoft has IPAM now built into Windows, but I’ve never liked the setup of the Windows IPAM configuration, and the …


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Mike Dent

Field CTO by day, dog dad, driveway workout partner with my wife, bourbon enthusiast by night, and helping organizations modernize IT without losing their sanity.
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