Nvidia to Join Dow Jones, replacing Intel
Wow.
CNBC Story is here.
Google Cloud – issues with europe-west3 region
Just a reminder…the cloud is just someone else’s datacenter.
Something will go wrong or go down at some point….Design for it!
for 1/2 a day the datacenter, europe-west3-c, was down.
The Register article is here.
vCenter Patches released
vCenter 7 Release Notes are here.
vCenter 8 Update 2e Release Notes are here.
vCenter 8 Update 3d Release Notes are here.
Patching ESXi hosts without rebooting…
Technically it is called, ESXi Live Patching.
Must be setup in LCM –> Settings –> Cluster Lifecycle –> Images
If not configured here, won’t be an option to utilize this.
There are some limitations (like VMs with Direct Path I/O)
Also noted a new checkbox there….
Prevent remediation if hardware compatibility issues are found
I like that!
Note that this does NOT apply to baselines…only Image Based Clusters.
Blog post is here….
Unofficial Omnissa Visio Stencils
Ivan de Mes posted about this.
Has both Visio & Draw.IO stencils…
Nutanix adds support for vSAN Ready Nodes
“Nutanix now supports the reuse of certain vSAN Ready Node hardware…”
Hope I don’t need to elaborate on why this is cool…
Nutanix Blog post is here.
Nutanix VLANs – Migration from VLAN Basic to VLAN
VLAN Basic is what most Nutanix users are using today.
VLAN is the term used for subnets, once you have enabled the Network Controller (used to be called Advanced Networking), and have enabled VPC and Micro segmentation.
couple of nuances to call out….
Prism Central must stay on a VLAN Basic subnet.
Migration is pretty seemless.
Nutanix Documentation is here.
Get Snapshot info in Prism Central
Jeroen Tielen recently posted about how to configure this custom view.
I had completely forgotten about this!
Nutanix Leap – running post failover scripts on VMs
Found this blog post that is using Change DNS Servers as the post failover sript.
Nicely written example!
Now remember….you can add anything in the post failover script, not just DNS Server updates….
Continuing Education – a list of resources that come with references
(of people who have used those sites & are happy with the results).
Free Learning – GitHub Repo
KodeKloud
Nutanix University
Nutanix .NEXT 2024 Sessions
PluralSight
vBrownBag
VMware Explore 2025 – Aug 25-28, Las Vegas
VMware Hands On Labs
VMware Explore 2024 Sessions (William Lam’s easier to search list version)