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Single Cluster Virtual Switch
If you’re attempting to create a single cluster virtual switch (as opposed to a multi-cluster virtual switch), you’ll need to do so directly from Prism Element. There’s a small quirkiness you need to be aware of.
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Snapshot Reporting in Prism Central – Nutanix
One of the many, powerful reports that you can get from Prism Central on the Nutanix platform. In this scenario, it’s demonstrated how to get a report of snapshot usage of each VM across an environment consisting of multiple Nutanix… Read More ›
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Memory Overcommit on Nutanix AHV, AOS 6.1 and later
How the memory overcommit feature works in Nutanix AHV, AOS 6.1 and later. This also holds true with NCI 6.5 and later. #Nutanix #NutanixCloud
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Want to Move? Your Easy Out for VMware: Nutanix Move 3.3
Nutanix just released Move 3.3, a tool that easily lets administrators plan, schedule and migrates VMs from other hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V and, yes, even AWS) over to Nutanix AHV. Many infrastructure teams are running a platform that they’re not happy… Read More ›
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Monday Funny – Fixing Bugs in Production
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How are you protected from Cyber Attacks?
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Checking the List and Counting it Twice – Dedupe and Physical Capacity Measurement (PCM/PCR)
I’ve gotten lots of questions on the “if that set of files were the only files on the Data Domain system” statement from my last post, Not The Droids You Were Looking For, where I went over Physical Capacity Measurement. … Read More ›
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Not the Droids (Capacity) You Were Looking For
How is it possible that my report is showing that I have more data stored than what is physically available?? This was a question prompted by one of my customers. But first, a little background. For those of you that… Read More ›
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Oldie but a Goodie, Forcing Avamar Backups to Data Domain
Avamar and Data Domain integration have been around a while and is a tried-and-true solution that’s been put through its paces and is still in the lead of backup solutions (according to Gartner). As virtual editions of both products are… Read More ›
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Unusual Updates
Welcome to Patch Tuesday boys and girls. Just wanted to bring to your attention that Microsoft released a patch for Windows XP and Vista today along with other updates. What makes it so highly unusual is that both of these… Read More ›
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