Witness-Script for Nutanix Metro Availability (python)

Author: cjohannsen
Date: 05/20/2015
Tags: listerner, metro, metro availaibility, nutanix, python, script, SNMP, witness
Categories: Uncategorized

Last week I had some conversations around our Metro Availability and a so called “witness”, a third observation instance. I already build a short how to with the vRealize Orchestrator but sometimes there´s no VMware 🙂 I decided to use python to write a short “promotion” function that works as soon as the Metro site […]

Witness for Nutanix Metro Availability

Author: cjohannsen
Date: 03/18/2015
Tags: api, automation, data protection, metro, metro availaibility, promote, protection domain, REST, vCenter Orchestrator, witness
Categories: Uncategorized

With Nutanix you have a powerful data protection solution: Metro Availability. You can just enable it within PRISM and administer it easily. Whilst I present this to more and more prospects there is always one thing to clarify: What happens if no one can manually fail-over a site? In most cases people ask this in conjunction […]