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Switch to Simplicity …
With the recent announcement by Nutanix of the Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) built on a KVM based hypervisor and the Acropolis management solution. I thought I would use this step change in...
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Webscalin’– adding Nutanix nodes
Most modern web-scale applications (NoSQL, Search, Big Data, etc) are achieving massive elastic scale though horizontal scale out techniques. The admins for such apps require the ability to add nodes...
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That ‘One Click’ upgrade again, in full
One way of demonstrating the concept of ‘Invisible Infrastructure’ is the ability to complete a full system upgrade with minimal service interruption. In this post I will show the “One Click” upgrade...
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Using Nutanix clones to deploy MongoDB replica set
In this post I am going to look at setting up a replica set to support high availability in a MongoDB environment. Replica sets contain a primary MongoDB database and a number of additional secondary...
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Sharded MongoDB config on Nutanix (1) : Deployment
So far I have posted on MongoDB deployments either as standalone or as part of a replica set. This is fine when you can size your VM memory to hold the entire database working set. However, if your...
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Sharded MongoDB config on Nutanix (2) : High Availability
One of the prime availability considerations for any horizontal scale out application, like a MongoDB cluster, is how that cluster behaves under a failure event. We have seen (in the MongoDB case) how...
View ArticleUsing Ansible to deploy ELK stack on Nutanix
Just recently my colleague Andrew Nelson (@vmwnelson) posted an article on setting up Ansible on the Nutanix platform. I am also using Ansible to develop playbooks and the like to deploy the ELK stack...
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