Memory and CPU are hot-pluggable on supported guest VMs running on AHV while the VM is powered on. Perform the following procedure to hot plug the memory AHV VMs: acli vm.update <vm_name> memory=<new_memory_size> Replace vm_name with the name of the VM and new_memory_size with the memory size. And to hot plug CPU: acli vm.update <vm_name>…
General Requirements and Limitations of Self Service Restore Set disk.enableUUID=true in the .vmx file for the VMs on ESXi. Guest VM must have Nutanix snapshots configured via a protection domain. Self service restore is not supported for the snapshots that you take from the VM table view. vStore protection domains are not supported. Volume groups…
What is Nutanix Guest Tools? As a recap, let’s revisit what is included in the Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) Bundle: Nutanix Guest Agent (NGA) Service: This provides CVM-to-VM communication. File Level Restore (FLR) CLI: Exactly what it sounds like. This allows users to recover files without the need of an administrator. Nutanix VM Mobility Drivers:…
After completing the NCP, the NCAP was the next goal on my list. I began to prepare for this in a similar fashion to how I did with the NCP. The first step was of course, to download the Exam Blueprint. As with the NCP guide, a big credit again goes to Steven Poitras, and…
I wanted to perform a mass graceful shutdown of VM’s as part of an orchestrated lift-and-shift effort. When I started my preparation work, which mainly consisted of me testing scripts in my lab environment, it dawned on me that not all of my Production VM’s have VMware Tools installed. So how can I go about…
After my last post about NFS Performance decreasing after host reboots, I was tasked with implementing the workaround across our infrastructure. My two options are click through the GUI until my fingers bleed or automate. As you can assume by this post, we’re most definitely going with the latter. And we all know the best…
I’ve been a big fan of NSX, having been a user of it going back to 6.2. Naturally, I was very excited when NSX-T was announced and was very anxious to get it stood up in my lab. After procrastinating long enough, I finally got NSX-T setup and configured. One of the first things I…
When deploying a virtual machine via KVM on the command line, you may notice that it stops at “Domain installation still in progress. Waiting for installation to complete.” You go and refill the coffee, come back, and it’s still there. Something must be wrong. Think of this as you just booted a VM with a…