Background After the initial install of a couple of the vRealize products, Log Insight, and Operations, I wanted to remove the annoying warning about the default self-signed certificates not being trusted. I am running a Windows PKI, so will use this to issue replacement certificates. Both Log Insight and Operations follow […]
Background. Some of you may have read my guide on deploying Nutanix CE 5.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello. Well as tends to happen, software is updated and now is the time to look to upgrade to the next Nutanix CE release which is based on Acropolis Operating System 5.6. I […]
Background. Veaam announced their upcoming Nutanix Acropolis Hyper-Visor support a few months ago and since then there have been various internal betas available for testing, one of which I demoed in this online presentation. The latest Beta is near feature complete so I thought it would be great to share what […]
Background. I recently moved my vSAN 6.6 cluster from VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 which I detailed in this blog post. The next item on the list was to upgrade to the latest version of vSAN, 6.7. My lab is overly simplified compared to most production environments, so it would […]
Background. A little bit of background for you folks, I wrote a blog post a little while ago on how to deploy a 6.5 VCSA appliance onto Oracle Ravello bare metal. On the back of this, I followed the vMusketeers excellent guide on creating a vSAN cluster on Oracle Ravello. […]
Background. If you are not familiar with the concept of an application in Ravello, it is a grouping of virtual machines that run in a defined region (notice I avoided saying container there, could become even more confusing). A region is a geographic location where there are compute resources available. Pretty […]
Background My use case is that I have two Nutanix CE clusters connected with a VPN link. I have no ability to modify the routes on a router, so the next best thing is to set a static route on each Controller Virtual Machine (CVM). This will allow communication between […]
Background This is something a couple of us had been working on in the background during the vSphere 6.7 Beta testing to try and make it run on Oracle Ravellos cloud, which has a free tier for vExperts. So I am not going to take all the credit, a big shout […]
Really? Ok, so maybe I lured you here with some marketing spin whilst omitting a few key details. However, given the right conditions, this is absolutely true. I was working on a project recently with a requirement to pull some virtual machines out of a managed service environment running Hyper-V […]
Why? I am going to try something a little different here and start with why for the rather than what, after watching this TED video from Simon Sinek. I made an investment in myself by attending this event on my own time to learn more about what Oracle Ravello has to […]