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…
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>…
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…
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:…
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…
You configure a protection domain by using Async DR feature (up to 1-hour RPO) or NearSync DR (up to 1-minute RPO ) by defining a group of entities (VMs and volume groups) that are backed up locally on a cluster and optionally replicated to one or more remote sites. See the DR best practices guide from https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/solutions for guidance…
A remote site is the target location to store data replications for protected domains. The remote site can be either another physical cluster or a cluster located in a public cloud. To configure a remote physical cluster that can be used as a replication target, do the following: Network and vStore Mappings are used to…
After a protection domain is replicated to at least one remote site, you can carry out a planned migration of the contained entities by failing over the protection domain. You can also trigger failover in the event of a site disaster. Failover and failback events re-create the VMs and volume groups at the other site,…