For Nutanix partners, you will be familiar with our Foundation product. Foundation is how Nutanix bootstraps the hypervisor of your choice and our software stack on to bare metal hardware. Over the years Foundation has evolved and now comes in different forms, for different use cases. Partners and some customers...
Nakivo just released version 8.1 of their Backup and Replication Suite. Nakivo supports VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2. What's new in this 'dot' release? Policy based Data Protection NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8.1 revolutionizes the way companies manage their backup operations by introducing Policy-Based Data Protection. Set up policies for...
One of the most popular posts of all time on my blog has been Create Trusted Remote Desktop Services (RDP) SSL Certificates for Windows 2008R2/2012/Win7. That article is a few years old, so I thought I would update it for Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10. The fundamentals have not...
Hot off the press is Nutanix Files, at version 3.2.0. Nutanix Files is our distributed SMB and NFS v4 file server, which runs on the Nutanix platform. Major new features in Files 3.2.0 includes: 140 TB file shares - Files supports shares and exports of up to 140 TB in...
Just a quick note that Veeam has updated their AHV Proxy appliance to build 1.0.457. This corrects a number of bugs, and a critical data corruption issue. So this is a MUST have patch for any Veeam customers using it along side Nutanix AHV. You can download Veeam Availability for...
For a number of years Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land has been sponsoring the top vBlogger voting contest. This is where you, the reader, can get behind your favorite bloggers and help them rank! Last year was a record year with over 1,600 votes. And as usual, the great sponsor...
Hot off the press is a bunch of new Nutanix software, via our Long Term Support (LTS) release cycle. AOS, Acropolis Operating System, is now up to version 5.10 as is Prism Central. Also in this release is an updated version of AHV (the Nutanix hypervisor). Our short term (STS)...
In this installment we will perform several tasks needed to successfully configure a SQL 2017 Always-On Availability Group (AAG). Tasks include Windows firewall rules (if you use the Windows firewall), configuring a replication folder, creating a small sample database, and finally configuring the SQL AAG.We will need to create two...
This blog post is a bit of a departure from my normal enterprise tech topics. Recently I've been on a 'refresh' cycle for many of my day-to-day gadgets and Apple mobile apps. So I thought I'd share my findings, as I put a lot of time into finding what I...
Now that we have the Windows failover cluster service installed and configured with a management point, we need to configure a witness. A witness is a 'third party' that enables monitoring of the cluster node status and assist with failing over SQL services. The witness can live either in the...
Now that SQL 2017 is installed on both nodes, we need to configure the Windows Cluster service. Although SQL AAGs don't use the 'traditional' clustering technology of shared SCSI disks and a quorum disk, the clustering service is required to manage the state and failover the AAG instances.For this procedure...
This is the fifth installment of the SQL 2017 AAG series, where we do an unattended install of SQL on node B. We will use a modified configuration INI file that was generated from the node A installation. This reduces human error and makes your installs repeatable. With the use...