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Automating snapmonitoring of the VMs
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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.
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I am consolidating a 4 clusters into a single 41 node cluster. The workload on these clusters are Linux VMs providing Dev/Test and Production environments. A large number of these are Oracle RAC. I may write something up about the project more in detail and the learnings.

The justification is that scheduling and conducting upgrades on 5 clusters multiple times over the year is costly. We also will gain capacity due to less resources committed for redundancy .

One of the surprises was that its recommended using RF3 if for clusters greater than 24 nodes. This fact has me considering keeping some key production workloads on a separate cluster but as time passes we probably end up with a cluster with more than 24 nodes anyway.

Tonight is a big night, we are consolidating 2 production clusters which will free up 2 blocks and 8 nodes... finally enough headroom that we can start rolling through clusters. There are some big challenges coming up as we have multiple storage nodes in 2 clusters so the capacity required to swing the remaining workloads of those clusters will be a little interesting... no there now.

Sorry for the long post, but thought I'd share. If anyone has experience or wants to hear about this journey let me know and maybe there will be a more fitting forum for an on-going discussion on the topic of migrations.
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AFS migration
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Working on expanding my cluster!
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We are currently working on migrating our existing Vmware platform to Nutanix
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We just finished migrating our last remote site off of old hardware and onto a Nutanix cluster. In addition just updated both our our datacenters to a new version of AOS, as well as esxi using the one click upgrade!
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I'm working on transfering disk images from one cluster to another so that our ansible plays run on the same template.
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I'm working on migrating our existing workload from VMware to AHV. The migration process is actually pretty painless, and with the exception of a couple of 'missing features', I think it's going to work out great!
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Just joined Xtribe, working on expanding my Nutanix skillset.
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just joined Xtribe 🙂
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To Study more on Nutanix
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I am working on virtualization, storage and networking. Mostly on high availability platforms. I was also working on 3 node Nutanix CE over a nested ESXI 5.5 test bed. We also have 3 node Nutanix Hyper-V cluster in production.
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We are currently migrating from a 3 tier solution to Nutanix.

Around 70 migrations completed so far and have around 150 VMs and around 40 physicals still to migrate. Hardest part of the migration is getting the downtime agreed from users as we are a 24/7 hospital.

We are going to reuse some of the physical servers to build Nutanix test cluster using the community edition.

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We are working on automatic machines deployment on AHV Nutanix hosts ! Platform description, Provisionning, Pxe boot and voilà !
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It's going to be great. We are 100% nutanix in our datacenters (for the virtualization platform) and Lots of remote clusters in our site. It's just awesome technology.
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Our team is working on a plan to replace almost our entire data center presense with Nutanix technology with a stretch goal to move to 100% AHV. We are also very interested to put a smaller size cluster in some of our remote, but critical manufacturing facilities all around the world !
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Sounds cool - You may also want to upload your scripts to the Scripts section on the Community site
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Working on migrating our servers from a VMWare Cluster to Nutanix AHV.
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We are currently doing a POC in my Singapore office and working to place one in my Germany offices. If all goes well, they will join my North America datacenters and be fully on Nutanix platform. Then I can work on migrating from ESX to AHV. Good times.
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Currently we are currently undertaking a migration of our on-premise datacentre to a co-lo facility running on Nutanix and also developing a site delivery model based on Nutanix and AHV for our 80+ remote sites within the UK...plenty to keep me busy over the next few months! 🙂
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Our new all flash system arrived this week! super excited to see them enter production over the next few weeks!!
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We have migrated VM's to Nutanix AHV, working on upgrading to 2012R2 and O365. Then and RDP server for our accounting package.
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I'm working in migrating VMs running in old HP environment to Nutanix Infrastructure with No Down-Time 🙂
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About to take delivery of a 3-node SX-1065-G5 device for hosting our SaaS application. Looking forward to getting hands on the platform.