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  • Zerto Virtual Replication - History and Capabilities

    calendar Aug 7, 2024 · 5 min read · replication zerto disaster-recovery vsphere hyper-v  ·
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    This is the first part of a series about Zerto Virtual Replication, starting with some history and capabilities of Zerto. Additional posts will follow and dive deeper into the full Zerto suite. A Deep Dive into Zerto Virtual Replication: History, vSphere, Hyper-V, and Cloud Capabilities In the world of disaster …


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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 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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  • Nutanix Deployment with NVIDIA M60 GPU

    calendar Jan 3, 2018 · 7 min read · nutanix nvidia gpu horizon-view vdi vsphere  ·
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    I recently had the opportunity to deploy 12 Nutanix nodes for a customer across 2 sites (Primary and DR), 6 of which were 3055-G5 nodes with dual NVIDIA M60 GPU cards installed and dedicated to running the Horizon View desktop VMs for this customer. This was my first experience doing a Nutanix deployment using the …


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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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  • Deploying NSX in a Home Lab - Part 2

    calendar Apr 1, 2016 · 6 min read · nsx vsphere vmware home-lab networking  ·
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    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 …


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  • Deploying NSX in a Home Lab - Part 3

    calendar Apr 1, 2016 · 10 min read · nsx vsphere vmware home-lab routing  ·
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    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 …


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  • Deploying NSX in a Home Lab - Part 1

    calendar Oct 22, 2015 · 5 min read · home-lab nsx vsphere vmware  ·
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    I’m a fan of NSX. Ever since I deployed it for the first time, and got it working, I realize the power, AND ease of what it would provide. I’ve had VMware NSX deployed in my lab for a while now, but I wanted to migrate my vSphere environment over to utilizing NSX fully for all VM’s, minus vCenter, the PSC, etc. At 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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