Author: Danilo

Shutting Down and Powering On the Nutanix CE Cluster shows all the necessary steps to shut down and power on the Nutanix CE Cluster. Steps to Shut Down the Nutanix CE Cluster 1- Shut down all virtual machines (VMs) on this cluster. Then, access one Nutanix CVM and run the command below to stop the cluster service: Waiting a few seconds: 2- Shut down all CVM VMs.We can access each one by SSH (with “nutanix” username) and apply the command “sudo shutdown -P now” or access one CVM VM and apply the following command to shut down all CVMs: 3-…

Building Your First Nutanix CE Cluster shows how to deploy a Nutanix CE Cluster in a lab environment. We will show all the necessary steps to create a cluster in a nested environment. First and Foremost, Get the Nutanix CE Installation File The first step is to get the Nutanix CE installation file. We must access our “My Nutanix” account to download this file. We have written an article explaining how to do it: Getting the Nutanix CE – DPC Virtual Tips Nested Lab Environment To create a Nutanix CE Cluster, we will use a lab environment based on an…

Getting the Nutanix CE shows all the necessary steps to get the Nutanix Community Edition (CE) installation ISO file. The Nutanix Community Edition (CE) is an exciting way to get hands-on experience with the Nutanix Cloud Platform on your hardware at no cost. If you are like me and love testing everything in a lab environment, you certainly will like that 🙂 Create Your Account at Nutanix The first step is to create an account at Nutanix. You can do that by accessing the following link: https://www.nutanix.com/products/community-edition/register Under the frame “Get Access Today,” type your email address and click “Get…

Getting Useful vSAN Details with PowerCLI aims to get useful vSAN details or information in a vSAN-enabled cluster. Powershell is a powerful tool embedded in the majority of Windows installations. VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 800 cmdlets for managing and automating VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, VMware NSX-T Data Center, VMware Cloud Services, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments. We have written some articles explaining how to install the PowerCLI. You are more than welcome to check with one…

Checking thick-provisioned disks with PowerCLI in a vSAN cluster is a practical way to identify virtual disks that are using a thick provisioning method. This article shows how to use VMware PowerCLI commands to find these disks in a vSAN environment. Before checking the disks, it is important to understand the difference between thin-provisioned and thick-provisioned virtual disks. A thin-provisioned disk consumes physical storage space as data is written, while a thick-provisioned disk reserves the configured capacity during disk creation. There are two types of thick-provisioned disks in VMware environments: Lazy Zeroed and Eager Zeroed. The main difference is when…

vSphere vMotion is a VMware technology that allows administrators to migrate a powered-on Virtual Machine (VM) from one ESXi host to another without interrupting its operation. This article explains how vSphere vMotion works, its requirements, and the main concepts involved in a VM migration process. About VM Migration Migration means moving a Virtual Machine (VM) from one ESXi host, datastore, or vCenter Server instance to another ESXi host, datastore, or vCenter Server instance. In this context, a migration can be “cold” or “hot”: For every requested migration, the vCenter Server instance performs compatibility checks before migrating suspended or powered-on VMs…