Default AHV Network Configuration After Foundation is complete, by default: CVM attached to bridge br0 and virbr0 All physical NICs inside bond br0-up Active/Backup bond mode More information about Bond Options can be found here. Best Practice Configuration Single OVS bridge – br0 1 Gbps ports removed from br0 Default bond mode (Active/Backup) manage_ovs —bridge_name…
Open vSwitch (OVS) Open vSwitch, or OVS, in short is an open source software switch. It is installed and run in the Linux kernel. It mimics a Layer 2 switch. In other words, it learns MAC addresses and maintains a MAC address table. It makes forwarding decisions based on these MAC addresses. It has virtual…
3-Tier Network Architecture Core layer Considered the backbone of networks Largest, fastest, yet also most expensive routers Used to merge geographically separated networks Purpose: Move data across network at highest possible speed Aggregation (aka Distribution) layer Located between access and core layers Purpose: provide boundary definition by implementing access lists (filters) Defines policy for the…
The network visualization page in Prism makes use of SNMP and LLDP to find info about the connected top of rack switch. SNMP is used to get switch information like the name, ports, and port statistics. LLDP is used by the AHV hosts to find out which Nutanix node is plugged into which switch port….
Data Protection Strategy The below image is a representation of the capabilities that the Nutanix solution offers across the entire data protection spectrum. Nutanix offers a natively integrated solution for data protection and continuous availability at VM granularity. It gives administrators an affordable range of options to meet the recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery…
Synchronous Replication is a feature where data is synchronously replicated between two sites in metro availability configuration. In an event of a disaster on any one site, real-time data is available on the other site. The protection domain can be configured for metro availability or for synchronous replication depending on the following: Metro availability: The…
DSF Content: nfs_ls Utility Acropolis uses iSCSI and NFS for storing VM files. Since you want to be able to see what was uploaded to the container, you can check from any of the controller VMs the container content using the nfs_ls utility to list NFS servers, exports or directories. List contents of one container:…
What is Flash Mode? Flash Mode is a feature that will guarantee an entire virtual machine (VM) virtual disk or a portion of a VM virtual disk always resides in the hot tier. VM Flash Mode is also referred to as VM/vDisk Pinning Up to 25% of the SSD tier of the entire cluster can be reserved…