Continuing our journey with testing out Nutanix AHV functionality for one of our partners, one of things we wanted to get deployed was Prism Central. Prism Central is very similar to VMware’s vCenter, defining Prism Central as “software provides centralized infrastrcuture management, one-click simplicity and …

Part 4: Prism Central Deployment and Configurationetween clusters for VM migration and disaster recovery testing." date: 2016-09-21 featured: false draft: false toc: false usePageBundles: true categories: "Technology" tags: "acropolis" "ahv" "nutanix" "data-protection" "replication" Welcome back to my series on our …

Welcome back to my Nutanix and Mellanox blog series! In Part 1, I went through the process of setting up the "Technology" tags: "acropolis" "ahv" "mellanox" "nutanix" "networking" "configuration" Welcome back to my short series on our journey of testing Nutanix and Mellanox. Following up on Part 1 of the Nutanix and …

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 cost 10/40Gbe switch. The NX-1050 Block was pre-configured at another location, so all network …

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 Currently, we partner with this customer to do your typical 3-Tier infrastructure …

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 🙂 Initializing the Unity array uses the ‘ _same’_Connection Utility that the VNXe uses, though the Unity …

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 in an oven good. We started off the morning with the announcement from Nutanix and Cisco that Nutanix now runs on …

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 1 of my Deploying NSX series, we covered the prep of NSX in the environment, including deploying the NSX Manager appliance, deploying NSX Controllers …

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 the series, we covered the creation of Logical Switches and our NSX Edge, which …

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 posts during the Christmas break, then the New Year break, and now we’re over halfway thru January and my whiteboard hasn’t …