If you are standing up Cohesity Data Protect against a Nutanix environment, one of the first decisions you make also turns out to be one of the stickiest: do you register Prism Element or Prism Central as your source? The choice shapes how much you can manage from one place, how you select what to protect, and how …
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If you are moving a virtual Firepower Management Center off VMware, the part that keeps people up at night is not the deployment. It is whether every policy, object, and managed FTD comes back exactly as it was. The good news: a clean backup and restore preserves your configuration and your FTD connectivity, as long as …
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If you have a Cisco Modeling Labs appliance in your lab or running on a piece of dedicated hardware, you have probably noticed two browser warnings every time you log in. CML ships with self-signed certs on both the main web UI and the Cockpit management UI, and your browser will complain about both. Cisco publishes an …
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Deploying Windows VMs on Nutanix AHV requires VirtIO drivers that aren't included in the standard Windows installation media. This means manually loading drivers during setup or mounting driver ISOs after installation. I've built a PowerShell tool that simplifies this process by injecting the VirtIO drivers directly …
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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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