At my current client we experienced a nasty surprise when enabling balance-tcp (802.3ad) on our Nutanix cluster. We always follow the same procedure as below: Seems pretty straightforward and we never had any issues with following this process until it did. After enabling LACP on our switches the Nutanix cluster… Continue reading
As you could read none of my earlier posts I reconfigured my Nutanix CE node in a different vLAN and everything worked like a charm. Worked? After all the configuration was done I moved my node back in its place in the technical cabinet and started the node so I… Continue reading
I am absolutely thrilled and proud to announce that I have been re-elected as a Nutanix Technology Champion! This exciting journey continues as I join once more an incredible group of 74 talented individuals from all corners of the globe. Each one of them is a passionate advocate for technology,… Continue reading
A couple of days ago I replaced some of my network components in order to achieve some more segmentation. I wanted to ensure I’ve got a couple of segments in place to enhance my security a bit. These segments/vLANs are: The above doesn’t sound so strange to anyone involved in… Continue reading
As you might have read in my last post I finally managed to install the latest Community Edition from Nutanix. Why did I do this? Mainly because AOS and AHV are now similar to the commercial versions and can be upgraded via LifeCycle Manager (LCM) to the latest versions (to… Continue reading
As you might know, I’m a big fan of the Nutanix Community Edition which helps me to fiddle around with AOS & AHV, learn new stuff, and all that without compromising production workloads. A new CE version has been released back in March. DISCLAIMER: Why was this post delayed This… Continue reading
Hi there, my blogging is on and off, mainly because I don’t prioritise this above my work, friends, family, etc. This doesn’t mean I’m not interested, but most of the time I “do stuff” and afterwards I think I’ve should have documented the steps as they might be beneficial for… Continue reading
A long overdue post to express my gratitude to Nutanix (and especially Angelo Luciani) for taking me up once more in this amazing group of individuals. This year the group consists of 100 individuals from all over the globe, and personally I found it great to see that people that… Continue reading
Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to join Cohesity Test Flight as this is an interesting backup solution. The test flight was led by Jurgen Janssens from Cohesity. The event was a bit hijacked by me & my colleague as we we’re the only ones there and thus could fire… Continue reading
Last year Udacity developed a new course with Nutanix called Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals. Out of professional interest I signed up for this course and I can recommend this one to everyone starting with HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI). This is a great entry level course to get you started and if you… Continue reading