One of the awesome things about community, is the sharing and learning that can happen. It's always encouraging to see others want to help solve problems they are not directly involved in, offer new idea's to old problems and look for new ways of doing things.
It also helps me connect people who may have similar interests, and can benefit from sharing their experiences.
I thought this would be a great place to share what you are working on, get introduced to the community and let us know how we can help. Add your comments below, and let's begin the conversation.
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Expanding my cluster right now
Hi All,
I’m new at my work but we are one Nutanix (Supermicro) multiple clusters running Hyper-V 2016. Lots of challenges but looking forward to learning more in these forums.
Hi,
I am working on the Nutanix infrastructure (as a VDI solution). We have one cluster with 8 nodes running AHV. Since there is a new version of the upgradeable components periodically, I want to know when I should upgrade each component accordingly? and what is the optimal sequence for the components upgrading ?
I am working with Nutanix CE from the end of April. I am Network Engineer focusing on Ethernet switches, and virtual network testbed/devices such as Cisco VIRL, EVE-NG and Aruba CX OVA (virtual ArubaOS-CX).
Due to COVID-19, I have chance to run Nutanix CE (2019.11.22-stable) at home, on 3 x ThinkPad W520 which are powered by Intel Core i7-2760QM and 2820QM. My goals are to get better place to run virtual machines than VMware ESXi, and reliable storage. Here are my challenges.
- Prevent overheat or burn up of ThinkPads - I DON’T RECOMMEND TO USE LAPTOPS for Nutanix CE!
- 10GbE or 5GbE or 2.5GbE NICs, because built-in 1GbE NIC seems be overloaded
- EVE-NG (Network Simulation Testbed powered by KVM) does not work as expected
Regarding 1 and 2, I added Shuttle Cube PC as 4th node (Core i5-9400T, 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD + HDD, Intel I211 NIC), which VMware ESXi was installed. It looks fine and CVM does PCIe pass-through for NVMe SSD.
I would like to replace 1GbE NIC with 10/5/2.5GbE(Aquantia AQC107) and/or 2.5GbE (Realtek RTL8125). However this seems be difficult as I have to add drivers for these NICs, AQC107 and RTL8125 are cheap but not stable than Intel 10GbE NICs. And suppose if these NICs and drivers work with Nutanix CE, I am not sure I can keep updating these drivers when CE is upgraded.
Regarding 3, I guess “Nested Virtualization” on AHV is not supported. But I am not sure. Sorry.
Upgrading AHV. AOS is next
Userlevel 3
+10
We have done esxi upgrades via PRISM, and it works very well. You can upgrade using a full image, or using a update bundle (zip) for a specific patch. Just remember to have DRS enabled on your cluster, otherwise you have to use VUM. It will evacuate each host one at a time, place it into maintainence mode, patch/upgrade, restart the host, and then bring it out of maintnence mode, and move VMs back to that host.
At this time, Nutanix is recommending that everyone hold off on upgrading to 6.5. I would definitely reference their AOS to ESXi compatability matrix and look for updates for when they plan to have an AOS version compatible.
At this time, Nutanix is recommending that everyone hold off on upgrading to 6.5. I would definitely reference their AOS to ESXi compatability matrix and look for updates for when they plan to have an AOS version compatible.
Preparing for certification
Reading through the Nutanix bible to gain more information about Nutanix
Userlevel 1
Finishing migration to Nutanix from a 3-tier SAN
Reading New AOS version and features details.
Working on HA and Disaster Recovery (Replication).
+1
I'm working on data centre virtualization like proof of concept of Nutanix at my client site
Building a second 4 node Nutanix Cluster in a secondary data centre for DR fail-over in the event DC1 is lost.
Configuring key servers to be replicated to this 2nd DC so that we can bring up key services immediately.
Our major refresh projects are on hold due to the pandemic but we are working on implementing Beam for it’s cloud cost control\optimization features. Controlling cost is more important now then ever.
Userlevel 1
Test ABS and Files
Moving to Nutanix from our old legacy enviorment.
Hay, now i planning to migrate from esxi to AOS, form vsphere to AHV. That’s awesome !
I’m working on deploying Karbon
Nutanix with Citrix VDI solution
Upgrading SSD firmware on one of my clusters using LCM.
we just completed doubling the RAM of our entire Nutanix environment, with zero downtime. we have also built out a Citrix VDI platform for use during this current “remote work” environment.
I am working implanted nutanix cluster
we currently have a workflow using paker (OS image generator) that generates an image and then deposits it on a virtual machine. We would like to then push the image (QCOW2) to both of our clusters. We managed to push it manually via ssh to one cluster, and then to the other. What we are thinking of is being able to push it to prism central via command line, then attach a placement policy to it so that it is pushed to both of our clusters automatically.
Hi my name is Steve, from Ohio. We bought 6 nodes last year to migrate a customer service & support VDI environment off traditional server/storage methodology to separate the environment away from our standard production environment. Been in prod for approximately 3 months and already ordered an additional blade for expansion! Making business case now to move our software development group off traditional HPE server/NetApp storage to Nutanix cluster for better performance, easier scalability and hopefully some automation capability down the road. Working on obtaining my NCP. Looking forward to listening, learning and hopefully contributing to the community! Interested to find out what the Nutanix local community looks like in the Cincinnati area.
Userlevel 2
looking at a solution for a customer to work on vTL. i guess a great idea would be to deploy the vTM storage gateway into the AWS cloud.
Any Suggestions?
Any Suggestions?
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