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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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Installed a new node with Acropolis and testing..
Looking at moving to AHV (from VMware); plus planning new Plant in CN (running on Nutanix, of course!)
I`m working on learning nutanix technologise and installing a new six nodes cluster, hope I can learn more after the HCI project.
Preparing to migrate Avaya IP Office from our SAN to Nutanix!
Azure Pack on Nutanix - Private Cloud.
Hi all,



We have few things underway at the moment:




  • Moving our Oracle RAC test/dev database cluster from Dell hardware to Nutanix/AHV
  • Migrating our production fileservers (approx 30TB's) from Dell hardware to Nutanix/VMware
  • Migrating from our expired Dell hardware our Hyper-V test/dev VM's to Nutanix/Hyper-V
  • Migrating from our expired Dell hardware our Hyper-V production VM's to Nutanix/VMware
  • Migrating our MS SQL 2008 R2 cluster from Dell hardware to MS SQL 2012 Always On running on Nutanix/VMware


Cheers,

Justin
Hi all,



i'm just bringing up a solution for a decentralized VDI in our branchoffices via Nutanix with XenDesktop.
Creating powershell script to automate faiolver of Mertro-availabilty.Creating powershell script rollback VM's to previous snapshot;
Upgrading to 4.7.1 this weekend.
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.
We are working on automatic machines deployment on AHV Nutanix hosts ! Platform description, Provisionning, Pxe boot and voilĂ  !

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.

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.
just joined Xtribe 🙂
Just joined Xtribe, working on expanding my Nutanix skillset.
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!
I'm working on transfering disk images from one cluster to another so that our ansible plays run on the same template.
Working on expanding my cluster!
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.
Automating snapmonitoring of the VMs
Researching an upgrade of ESXi from 5.5 to 6 via Prism.
Currently piloting our new VDI infrastructure... We've had the NTNX clusters for over a year, but constant struggles with UniDesk & Windows 10 compatibility has slowed things down...



We've now dropped UniDesk from this project & instead using Full Clone VM's, on a NTNX Metro Cluster for Active/Active support across our 2 primary sites. Today is day 1 of the staff pilot & looking good so far, though we only have a limited number of users.
Upgrading customer nutanix to 5.5 yay new releases!
We're deploying two new Nutanix clusters to facilities over seas.
We are working on standing up our initial order of Nutanix Blocks
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