I ran into some interesting space issues on Nutanix cluster recently, I was doing a manual download of NOS to run the upgrade and my /home folder on one of the CVM's was hitting 95% and giving some warnings. After a quick call with support my suspicions were confirmed and some stuff could be deleted …
Nutanix single host bare metal install
On some occasions, I have been faced with the task of building a node without the foundation VM. For this you will need a copy of the Hyper-Visor in my case it is usually ESXi and this is what I will concentrate on here. You will also need a copy of the Nutanix phoenix ISO …
E2EVC Epic Dublin Event
So its's almost been a week since the E2E event made an appearance in Dublin and to quote the event title it was EPIC! With excellent speakers and content all weekend, it had also some fun activities arranged for us. This included a fabulous lunch every day a the local Thai restaurant beside the hotel …
Citrix MCS on Acropolis
So been waiting on this integration for a while now and with the release of Citrix 7.9 and the integration plug-in from Nutanix were finally here. Some thing to be aware, make sure you are on the latest NOS version 4.6.1 which is latest at time of writing, other wise you may run into some …
Load Balancing Microsoft Direct Access
I was asked to jump in on a project this week to help configure Microsoft Direct Access load balancing using the NetScaler platform. when I went looking their wasn't a lot of info other than a good video on how it works https://www.petri.com/webinars/using-advanced-adc-configuration-for-microsoft-direct-access-to-improve-datacenter-security After reaching out to Richard, https://directaccess.richardhicks.com he pointed me in the right direction …
XenServer To Acropolis
So after reviewing a number of blog posts and gluing them together to get a process down to migrate windows VM's to Nutanix Acropolis using KVM as the hyper-visor. Prerequisites : Nutanix Acropolis cluster up and running by default there is an NFS share available which we will use to move the XenServer VM's to. …
NetScaler Commands
1. Setting the NetScaler IP Address: > set ns config -ipaddress x.x.x.x -netmask 255.255.255.0 2. Adding a Mapped IP Address: > add ns ip 10.102.29.61 255.255.255.0 -type mip 3. Setting the Default Gateway: > add route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.102.29.1 4. Changing the Root Password: > set system user nsroot netscaler 5. Review configuration: > show runningconfig …
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