With the first post in the Zerto series, I ran through the history of Zerto and some features that Zerto Virtual Replication provides. Continuing the series on Zerto, with the second post, we'll cover the typical Zerto Virtual Replication deployment requirements and compare a Windows-based deployment versus the newer …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …