Category: AHV
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Nutanix AHV, don’t mess with the virtual switch!
In the first releases of AHV, the virtual switch was present on the AHV host, but not integrated within the Prism UI. By then, it was quite obscure what the settings on the host were. Nowadays it is really important to maintain identical settings on your host for the bridge br0 en de bond br0-up.…
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Using LACP with Nutanix AHV
As Nutanix describes in their Nutanix Networking guide, Nutanix is recommending “Active-backup” as bond mode for ease of use. For available bandwidth and increased availability, I always recommend the use of the bond mode “balance-tcp” in combination with LACP. For a the use of LACP, you need to configure that as well on the network…
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Storage migration with AHV
One of the features my customers are missing in Nutanix and AHV is the possibility to migrate running virtual machines to another container. Well, the wait is over. Recently, Nutanix released AOS 5.19 and among the many features in this Short Term Support release version, there is the live migration of the storage of a…
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Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster
Hopefully you will never need the information in this post. Lately, a wrong gateway was entered during the initial setup of a Nutanix cluster. Because the cluster was configured connected to a standalone switch, the typo was found when the cluster was already connected to the customers production network and was unreachable… Luckily you can…
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Nutanix AHV: Multi-Site Distributing reference images
When you are using Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) in your environment, you will notice some difficulties, which you don’t have using VMware. Of course, this is completely understandable regarding the years of development in VMware, and those years in AHV. Luckily Nutanix provides multiple interfaces you can use to accomplish your tasks. One of my latest…