Any sort of deployment should not only consider the immediate needs, but also an potential future requirements. How many times have we been in the “I wished I knew this before” or “I didn’t realise it back then” situations. We can plan as much as we can, but sometimes the most minute details can escape… Read More »
This post are for the system administrators who are less familiar with Networking terms, particularly describing the nature of the ports. Access Port Trunk Port Hybrid Port These terms are not used on the system side, so unless you have done some networking training/read up on this, you may not know what they really mean,… Read More »
This post focuses on the different aspects to be aware of to deploy a Nutanix Cluster. There are other considerations when we zoom out to look at large scale deployments, such as for Cloud Infrastructure transformation from traditional 3 tier storage deployments to Hyper-converged Infrastructure, but that will be another post for another day. Nutanix… Read More »
I have been asked recently, why the numbers for total Storage capacity seen in vCenter Server not match reality? Specifically the numbers for Free and Capacity are much more than there really is. Allow me to attempt to help explain this. The short answer to this is because vCenter Server and ESXi, natively do not… Read More »
This is a common scenario that comes up when discussing resilient network design and implementation between servers and switches. For this we need to have the system and network folks together in the room. More often than not, especially in large organisations, these folks are experts within their domain, but little cross domain knowledge. I’m… Read More »
I’m no networking expert, but I’ve discussed this several times with my friend and colleague Low Soon Seng, who is a double CCIE, and a Technical Trainer at Nutanix. Thank you Soon Seng, I have learnt a lot from you. First my pet peeve; that many people mistakenly use the term LACP, to mean Link… Read More »
In case you are in the same situation as me, trying to match across an expanding list of hardware qualified to run Nutanix and which CPU generations they contain, here’s a table I put together. It’s not a complete list, but it’s a start with the most common models I have personally encountered. Happy to… Read More »
In the virtualisation best practice, one of the earliest best practice since many moons ago was to have network admins configure switch ports which are connected to ESXi hosts to have portfast enabled. For many who know this, I find that it tends to be just a regurgitation of what have been read. Very few… Read More »
This is my first post on Nutanix since I joined in July 2015. Other than being really busy, I also wanted to gain much more experience with the platform before I write. Now, four months in and having deployed many clusters and nodes all over APJ, I have quite a bit to write. This post… Read More »