Veeam Backup Limitation with Nutanix Acropolis
While working with a client, we ran across a very interesting issue. The goal was to set up a Veeam Backup and Replication solution in a Nutanix Acropolis…
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Data Collection from Acropolis on Nutanix
** Be sure to read to the end to heed the warning regarding Licensing Info collection ** As a consultant, I am often tasked with going into a…
Failed to upload AOS package to Nutanix via Browser
Ran into this annoying little error at a client today. Nutanix is awesome. The one click upgrade functionality is amazing and really works well. Except when it doesn't.This…
How to upgrade your Horizon Infrastructure (7.7 Edition)
Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just upgrade everything! I recently went through the exercise of looking up all of the various solution components in the…
Using Veeam Replication to move Datacenters : Lessons Learned
I recently participated in a small datacenter move that involved migrating a few dozen VMs from a legacy EqualLogic system to some shiny new Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. For a…
What you need to know so you Don’t Meltdown from Spectre! How to patch your computers.
So the world is ablaze again from the latest computer vulnerability. Make that 2 of them. And they affect pretty much every computer made in the last…
VMware HA Heartbeat issue.
This is a pretty standard one. You deploy a small environment that only has a single shared Datastore (like a Nutanix cluster maybe). Enable HA and all of…
Removing a Node (or 3) from a Nutanix Cluster
Recently, I had to retire some nodes from a client’s Nutanix cluster. We were recycling 3 out of the 6 nodes down to DR in this particular case. …
How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager
Working with the Nutanix clusters, I had an opportunity to upgrade them to vSphere 5 via Update Manager. The process of upgrading an ESX host with Update Manager…