Welcome back to my series on our journey of testing Nutanix and Mellanox. Part 1 & 2 of the series focused on Nutanix AHV networking and integrating with Mellanox, so we’re going to shift in Part 3 and look at
Deploying Nutanix and Mellanox – Part 2
Welcome back to my short series on our journey of testing Nutanix and Mellanox. Following up on Part 1 of the Nutanix and Mellanox Series, I’m going to dive deeper into the Nutanix network configuration for use with the Mellanox
Deploying Nutanix and Mellanox – Part 1
As I wrote about in the last post that started our journey with Nutanix and Mellanox, we will be testing AHV DR replication for one of our partners while evaluating the use of the Mellanox SX switch platform for a lower
Nutanix and Mellanox – A Journey
I’ve been given the opportunity to do some testing with 2 Nutanix blocks and a Mellanox SX1012 switch for one of our customers, who is looking to do some disruptive changes to the platform they deploy their software onto. Background
Cisco UCS VIC 1227 bug with Nexus 9Ks
I ran into an issue recently during an installation at 2 locations, where both locations were using Cisco C220 Servers with the VIC 1227 installed, connecting to Nexus 9372PX switches.
EMC Unity Install
I was fortunate to do my first EMC Unity install today (Unity 300 specifically), and Unity follows the path of the VNXe installation sequence, pretty easy. This blog post is about as short as the Unity install is 🙂
Week Wrap-up, vExpert and Home Again…
What a week we’ve had, and really I mean Yesterday! Finally home after a 3rd straight week in NY doing some fun installs for one of our partners. Being home in SC in the summer always feels good. Like being
Deploying NSX in a Home Lab – Part 3
Onto the Logical Router…. In Part 1 of my Deploying NSX series, we covered the prep of NSX in the environment, including deploying the NSX Manager appliance, deploying NSX Controllers and vSphere host preparation. In Part 2 this part of
Deploying NSX in a Home Lab – Part 2
It’s been over 6 months since I last had NSX working in my home lab, and with a rebuild I decided it was time to wrap up Part 2 of my NSX in a home lab blog post. In Part
Changes in 2016
It’s been well over a month since the last post, and while I’ve had many ideas on topics since the last one, nothing has come to fruition! I wrapped up a busy 2015, with hopes to knock out a few