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ramiAdventurer
posted in AHV Virtualization
Does Nutanix Support SQL Cluster on ESXI5.5?

Hi All , As you know that to build a SQL cluster on vmware vsphere 5.5 I need to create RDM disk for both cluster's nodes with physical compitilty , and this will eliminate the vsphere from running vmotion (need to shutdown the host to migrate )since it is not supported. My question is : does nutanix support create a SQL cluster ? and how they will replace the RDM (the physical LUN)? And for licensing :Does nutanix base license support building critical application clusters for free? Regards,

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vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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rvillarinAdventurer
posted in AHV Virtualization
MSCS in Nutanix

Hello - Is MSCS (clustering VMs across physical hosts) supported on Nutanix? What ESXi/NOS versions support MSCS? How would I then present the shared disks (quorum, etc...) to the VMs? Thanks.

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vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
mluksch
mlukschAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Hyper-V VSS Provider

Hello Community. havent been here, since "next beta" turned to NEXT :o I cant find anything about the VSS Provider backing up VMs running on a Hyper-V Nutanix Cluster. Anyone exerienced want to enlighten me?

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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piAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
reference architecture for dual site installations for nutanix metro availibilty

Hi, it would be nice to see a metro availbility reference architecture with automated failover support + split brain avoidance for dual site deployments for e.g. with clusterlion . best regards

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mmcghee
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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DugiVoyager
posted in AHV Virtualization
Nutanix & vSphere 6

I hope Nutanix has the updates about the functionallity with vSphere 6 !? - Any info about that!?

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Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Nutanix + Veeam BPG for Hyper-V

Nutanix Best Practices for Veeam for Microsoft Hyper-V Environments Veeam and Nutanix together can help tackle data protection challenges in virtualized environments. Get it [b][url=http://go.nutanix.com/nutanix-veeam-hyperv-best-practices-guide.html]here[/url][/b]

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aluciani
9 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Nutanix and Veeam Backup & Replication for vSphere: Best Practices

Nutanix and Veeam Backup & Replication for vSphere: Best Practices Veeam and Nutanix together can help tackle data protection challenges in virtualized environments. This document makes recommendations for the optimization and scaling of Veeam Backup & Replication v7 with Nutanix for VMware vSphere. It shows the scalability of the joint solution and provides configuration information for both Veeam Backup & Replication and Virtual Computing Platform. Get it here  

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aluciani
9 years ago
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schubbyVoyager
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
RPO for DR Replication in HyperV

We are evaluating a Nutanix solution vs a normal 2012R2 HyperV with VNX SAN cluster. As we are a Microsoft shop, we are going with HyperV to reduce licenses. We have an HO and a DR site for Disaster Recovery. Our normal HyperV design involves having a HyperV cluster in each site with HyperV REPLICA to replicate data to the DR site. We have calculated this to give us an RPO of 30 seconds (HyperV Replica can even go to 5sec RPO) and an RTO of 15mins. Does Nutanix have any replication methodology that can give us a similar RPO? It looks like the RTO can be reached, but the RPO is at least 5mins and can't go below. Note that we have to use a HyperV engine and not VMWare. If this cannot be done with Nutanix replication, will Nutanix support a HyperV REPLICA between the 2 sites?

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9 years ago
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jrootVoyager
posted in AHV Virtualization
Re: supported MD5 version

Also see this post: [url=https://next.nutanix.com/t5/Installation/Accepted-hypervisor-ISOs-for-install-through-foundation/m-p/2092/highlight/true#M192]Accepted-hypervisor-ISOs-for-install-through-foundation[/url] Should help you if you are trying to use a recent ESXi 5.5 U2 update.

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9 years ago
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YCASTILLOAdventurer
posted in AHV Virtualization
Problem with SvMotion on vSphere 5.5u2

Hi, On a new install (nx6020) ; during a Storage vMotion, the ESXi CPU increases up to +80% of the total physical CPU ...The Storage vMotion is very long ... A vMotion is ok, no problem, very fast. Any idea ? Info : - Cluster version v4.1.2.1 - RAM CVMs : 32GB I think that there is not enough RAM on CVMs ?... 32GB its a best practices. thks guys ! Sig'

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DonnieBrasco
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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simchichuanVoyager
posted in AHV Virtualization
Maximize IOPS and Storage Bandwidth for VM

If we only have 2 VMs (1 CVM, another VM running heavy file uploading web application) per Nutanix KVM node, how can we fine tune / optimize storage bandwidth and IO for that web server?

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Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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elarsonAdventurer
posted in AHV Virtualization
How do you get your protected vms to power on when you migrate an Asnch DR Protection domain?

I have running vms in a consistency group within an asynch DR Protection domain. The snapshots are replicating locally and to a remote sign fine. When I manually migrate the Protection Domain to the remote site the vms are coming online fine at the target site, but they are not automatically powering on? I have to right click on them and manually power them on. Is this normal or should the migrate feature power them on, assuming they were online at the original location? Regards, Erik

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DonnieBrasco
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
bbbburns
Nutanix Employee
bbbburnsNutanix Employee
posted in AHV Virtualization
Avaya Aura on Nutanix

Next Community,Nutanix has developed a Reference Architecture for designing and deploying Avaya Aura on Nutanix. Aura is a complex Unified Communications and Customer Experience set of applications and a lot of work went into determining the right resources to size Aura on Nutanix. Please use this as a forum to ask any Nutanix and Avaya Aura questions you may have. You can find all of this material here in the Nutanix Aura Reference Architecture: [url=http://go.nutanix.com/virtualizing-avaya-aura-reference-architecture.html]http://go.nutanix.com/virtualizing-avaya-aura-reference-architecture.html[/url]I also wrote some blog posts about it here: [url=http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/02/nutanix-and-the-2015-avaya-technology-forum/]http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/02/nutanix-and-the-2015-avaya-technology-forum/[/url] [url=http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/03/avaya-aura-on-nutanix-in-progress/]http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/03/avaya-aura-on-nutanix-in-progress/[/url] [url=http://bbbburns.com/bl

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bbbburns
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
DaemonBehr
DaemonBehrAdventurer
posted in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Replication to secondary on-site datastore

We have a single 3 node 1350 with starter licensing running VMware vSphere. Is it possible to configure replication to another non-NDFS datastore with any available built in tools or processes? What would be the best method that does not incur additional costs. In this sort of instance, would vSphere replication make sense backup to another datastore?

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Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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mbyrtusExplorer
posted in AHV Virtualization
Slow Transfer speeds

New Nutanix install - vSphere 5.5.0 While transfering a 200GB file on a Virtual Host from the C: Drive to the E: drive I'm not getting anything faster than 50mb/s and sometimes down to 25mb/s. Anyone else seeing this type of behavior? Or have a solution to resolve slow speeds?

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f3rm1n
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in AHV Virtualization
Video - Tech TopX: Initial Configuration of Hyper-V

Chris Brown walks you through setting up Hyper-V and getting you ready to deploy VMs on Nutanix. Let us know what you think.

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aluciani
9 years ago
bbbburns
Nutanix Employee
bbbburnsNutanix Employee
posted in AHV Virtualization
Microsoft Lync on Nutanix

Next Community, I wanted to share the Nutanix Best Practices Guide for deploying Microsoft Lync on Nutanix. Many thanks to  and Jason Sloan[b]@Jason_D_Sloan[/b] for authoring this document. Best Practices Guide with example deployments here: [url=http://go.nutanix.com/bpg-microsoft-lync.html]http://go.nutanix.com/bpg-microsoft-lync.html[/url] You can also view Derek's personal blog on the subject: [url=http://www.derekseaman.com/2015/01/sizing-microsoft-lync-server-2013-nutanix.html]http://www.derekseaman.com/2015/01/sizing-microsoft-lync-server-2013-nutanix.html[/url] Please feel free to use this community space to ask questions about virtualizing Microsoft Lync on Nutanix.

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aluciani
9 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in AHV Virtualization
Hypervisor Agnostic, Hypervisor Version Agnostic!

Its well known that Nutanix is Hypervisor agnostic supporting ESXi, Hyper-V and KVM, but what most people either don’t know, or haven’t considered, is the fact the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version is not dependant on the hypervisor version. What does this mean? You can run the latest and greatest NOS 4.1.x releases on ESXi 5.0 , ESXi 6.0 or anything in between. In fact, you could run older versions of NOS such as 3.x with vSphere 6.0 as well (although I see no reason you would do this.) [b]Read more [url=https://tr.im/cHiGI]here[/url][/b] [i][b]This is a repost from the blog [url=http://www.joshodgers.com/]CloudXC[/url] by Josh Odgers[/b][/i]

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aluciani
9 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in AHV Virtualization
VMware vSphere: A Great Place to Run Enterprise Databases

I saw a tweet today (shown below) that reminded me of 27th August, 2012. This was the day that VMware published this article, which demonstrates how VMware vSphere (5.1 at that point) could achieve 1 million IOPS in a single VM. Things have undoubtedly gotten better in vSphere 5.5, and even more so with vSphere 6.0, which was recently released. Even though the test setup at the time (3 years ago) required two dedicated all flash arrays for this one VM, it demonstrated clearly that the hypervisor is not a bottleneck to storage. It also clearly demonstrated that even using VMFS and going through multiple layers to the storage and back, isn’t a bottleneck to high performance. vSphere itself adds so little overhead that it’s a great platform for running any workload. This is important, because 3 years on from this test we have all sorts of things running on top of vSphere in the ever increasing capabilities of the platform. Even high performance storage controllers and not just the varie

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aluciani
9 years ago
vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
vcdxnz001Nutanix Employee
posted in AHV Virtualization
Oracle Licensing and Support

If you're interested in running Oracle on the Nutanix platform then you should check out my latest blog article titled Oracle Licensing and Support on Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform - http://longwhiteclouds.com/2014/05/11/oracle-licensing-and-support-on-nutanix-virtual-computing-platform/. We are in the process of publishing a Tech Note on Oracle for Nutanix and also a Best Practice Guide. These should be available on our web site in the next few weeks.

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vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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danbensonExplorer
posted in AHV Virtualization
Hypervisor ESXi 5.5 U2 Upgrade with NOS 4.1.1

Just wondering if anyone has tried the NOS upgrade interface and had good success or issues. I am looking to do it this weekend, but I don't see any documentation on it. Thanks!

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C
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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tjagodaTrailblazer
posted in AHV Virtualization
ESXi 5.5U2

Hello, Is there an official stance on upgrading to/using ESXi 5.5U2 as install media? I see that U1 is specified explicitly on the supported Hypervisor list, is there a target date for U2 certification?

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9 years ago
vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
vcdxnz001Nutanix Employee
posted in AHV Virtualization
Scripts for Nutanix SQL Server Provisioning with VAAI

In addition to the video I recorded regarding SQL Server Provisioning with VAAI I've written an article tonight including the scripts I used to clone the VM's, tune the network, and the RunOnce script that ties it all together. I hope this is helpful. [url=http://longwhiteclouds.com/2015/01/27/nutanix-sql-server-db-vaai-clone-performance/]http://longwhiteclouds.com/2015/01/27/nutanix-sql-server-db-vaai-clone-performance/[/url]

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vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
vcdxnz001Nutanix Employee
posted in AHV Virtualization
Nutanix Provisioning SQL Server VM's with VAAI Clones

I'e just published a video demonstrating provisioning multiple SQL VM's in just minutes using VAAI Clones on the Nutanix platform. The SQL DB VM's are 435GB in size, but due to VAAI the new clones don't use any additional stroage capacity initially.Nutanix Provisioning SQL Server VM's with VAAI Clones  

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vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago
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rgoldthwaiteExplorer
posted in AHV Virtualization
Exchange 2010 on Nutanix

We were one of the first guinea pigs to host Exchange 2010 on Nutanix. our cluster consists of a 3451 and a 6220. We have 1 exchange server tied to each of the 3451 nodes, 4 in total. Each server is configured with 4 2 TB databases. 2 active, 2 passive. We noticed recently as we migrated a majority of our users to the new environment that we are getting alarms that we are hitting a threshold of disk space per host. Not sure what we're missing here. [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/299i4144063A719D65F2.png[/img]

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DonnieBrasco
Nutanix Employee
9 years ago

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