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I'm extremely pleased to announce I have been selected as a VMware vExpert for 2018! It is an honour to be part of the program. This is my first year being a member. It is an extremely vibrant community judging by the short time I have been in the slack channel. Looking forward to getting … Continue reading VMware vExpert 2018
I noticed today some of our clusters had very old versions of Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) installed so thought I would put together a blog post on how to upgrade the LCM component while I was doing it. It is pretty straight forward and a nice thing to keep up to date as features … Continue reading Upgrading Nutanix LCM
The default (self-signed) UCSM keyring certificate must be manually regenerated if the cluster name changes or the certificate expires. The default certificate is valid for one year. Ideally you have replaced the default certificates but if you haven't then you will see the following Major alert in UCS Manager when the certificate expires : The … Continue reading Regenerate Expired Cisco UCS Certificate
It was announced earlier today that Nutanix was named a leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged systems. This is a wonderful achievement for Nutanix and very well deserved. They have come a very long way in the last 9 years! Congratulations! Link to the twitter announcement here Learn more here
I needed to move a NetApp volume last week and it was a task I hadn't done before. It was a pretty simple process within NetApp OnCommand System Manager but I thought I would put together a quick blog post on it. The details of the process can be found in this document here. The … Continue reading Moving a NetApp Volume in CDOT 9.2
This last week I attended the Nutanix NTX bootcamp. It is a free course run by Nutanix NTX qualified architects. It is a hard week but there is a great sense of acheivement when completing it. I would highly recommend registering for the course if you get the chance. They are being run all over … Continue reading I attended the Nutanix NTX Bootcamp
Introduction If you want to start taking advantage of some of the new features of Prism Central 5.5 like, Dynamic alerting, VM right-sizing, and scheduled reporting then you will need to update it. Here is the AOS 5.5 video from the Nutanix nu.school channel Documents Here are the links to the Prism Central Documents Release … Continue reading Upgrading Nutanix Prism Central
