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How I configured my Nutanix Cluster for Synchronous Replication

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:32:54 +0000

Now that NOS 4.1.1 is generally available I decided to make some time to upgrade my two production clusters to the latest release and enable metro cluster availability (synchronous replication). Given that I was already at the job I started ScreenFlow for Mac and recorded the configuration steps for the setup. I have never seen synchronous replication that simple before.

Nutanix Metro Cluster Availability Setup Demo Video

Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:54:19 +0000

Recently I have been talking and writing a lot about the new Nutanix Metro Cluster Availability feature in NOS 4.1, and I thought would be nice to share this video about how to set up this cool new feature. It's easy, just like everything else in Nutanix.

Nutanix Metro Availability Operations – Part 2

Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:32:33 +0000

In the first part of this Nutanix Metro Availability series I discussed the datacenter failure recovery operation (failover) to a secondary site. In this second part I talk about the operational procedure to resume normal operations back to the primary site (failback) after a successful failover operation.

Nutanix Metro Availability Operations - Part 1

Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:41:41 +0000

This is my first operations article on Nutanix Metro Availability. Whilst the feature is not yet GA, only in NOS 4.1, I would like to demonstrate how some of the basic operations are expected to work in production.

If you missed the announcement of NOS 4.1, please refer to All Nutanix 4.1 Features Overview in One Page (Beyond Marketing).

Nutanix 4.1 Features Overview (Beyond Marketing) – Part 3

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 08:06:15 +0000

Couple weeks ago I published the first and second parts of a multi-month announcement for NOS 4.1; this is the third part of the announcement. If you missed the first two parts you can read it at Nutanix 4.1 Features Overview (Beyond Marketing) – Part 1 and Nutanix 4.1 Features Overview (Beyond Marketing) – Part 2.