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…
Windows VM Migration Prerequisites On the source hypervisor, power off all the VMs that you want to migrate. Ensure that the source VMs do not have any hypervisor snapshots associated with them. (Optional) Clone any VMs that you want to preserve. (Optional) Create a storage container on the AHV cluster. (For ESXi source environments) Windows…
Supported Source Environments You can migrate VMs from the following source hypervisors to AHV: VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Support Information In the current AOS and AHV releases, the UEFI implementation is limited. The following table describes the level of support available for various usage scenarios: Scenario Support Level Generation 2…
Select the image that you have created by using the image service feature. This field appears only when Clone from Image Service is selected. It specifies the image to copy. Creating the Image Creating the VM Select Clone from Image Service to copy an image that you have imported by using image service feature onto the disk.
I have always been a fan of leveraging community resources when studying for certification exams. The VCAP study guides here, and here were invaluable when I was studying for those exams. When I began preparing for the Nutanix NCP, I was a little bummed out when I couldn’t find any community resources like these. I…
Installing Prism Central (1-Click Method) You can install a Prism Central VM using the “1-click” method. This method employs the Prism web console from a cluster of your choice and creates the Prism Central VM in that cluster. The “1-click” method is the easiest method to install Prism Central in most cases. However, you cannot…