Not sure why I didn’t post this before, but here it is. When installing Nutanix CE on a Dell server (R710 in my case) with a PERC H700 card you can’t do a pass-through on the disks. You have to configure them as a single disk RAID0 in the PERC config.  Ctrl-R at boot for […]

Since my last post I’ve been fighting to get the cluster back to some semblance of stability.  Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.  However, there isn’t anything out there that approaches the ease of configuration, fault tolerance and hyperconverged storage I’m looking for.  So…I’m making sure I have a backup copy of my VMs […]

I’ve had a number of problems with CE lately that look like they’ll be difficult to fix.  Not sure I’ll have a better experience with a different platform, but I figure it’s about time to try.  If nothing else, I’ll have some backup copies of my VMs, which is not an obvious thing in CE. […]