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:…
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…
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…
The Nutanix administrator should deploy NGT on the VM and then enable this feature. For more information on enabling and mounting NGT, see the Enabling and Mounting Nutanix Guest Tools. After the feature is enabled and a disk is attached, the guest VM administrator can recover files within the guest operating system. If the guest…
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…