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Understanding Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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Posted on October 8, 2024 by Aman Sapra

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is the Hyperconverged Infrastructure which brings together the Virtual Compute, Storage and Networking of the physical nodes into a single resource pool of the cluster which can consumed by applications hosted on top of it.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure brings the power of simplicity by providing a single console to manage your computer, storage and networking. HCI also enables Enterprises to manage their Infrastructure and utilise their Resources more efficiently.

Components of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure includes:

Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV): Acropolis Hypervisor is Nutanix’s Type-1 Hypervisor installed on Bare Metal on-prem Hosts or on the Bare Metal Instances of Public Clouds to deliver the Virtualization capabilities.
Acropolis Operating System (AOS): Acropolis Operating System (AOS) is the software which runs inside the Controller Nodes (CVM) of Nutanix and delivers the storage capabilities
Prism: Prism is the Management software which provides the capabilities of managing an individual cluster using Prism Element UI and the functionality of managing multiple clusters using Prism Central UI.
Flow Network Security (FNS): Flow Network Security is the Network Security stack which helps Enterprises to secure their network by enhancing Application security and protecting the user workload
Disaster Recovery: Nutanix Disaster Recovery which was formerly known as Leap delivers the Synchronous, NearSync and Asynchronous replication capabilities for the workload to protect from site failures
Lifecycle Manager (LCM): The capabilities of managing the updates and upgrades of the Hyperconverged Infrastructure & for the HW Firmware is delivered using Lifecycle Manager.
Nutanix Kubernetes Enginer (NKE): Nutanix Kubernetes Engine is a kubernetes Management Platform which provides the capabilities of provisioning Kubernetes upstream conformant clusters and to manage the lifecycle of these K8s clusters.
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS): Nutanix Unifies Storage is responsible for providing highly scalable enterprise level unified storage platform which can deliver Block, File and Object Storage.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has its own SKU of Software Licenses which can be applied to the Nutanix environment with respective editions to leverage the above mentioned features.

In the upcoming blogs we’ll talk about each of these Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) components in greater details along with demos. Happy Learning!

Nutanix

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Posted on October 6, 2024 by Aman Sapra

Nutanix is one of the leaders in cloud software which helps their customers in building Hybrid Multi-Cloud. Nutanix was founded in the year 2009 and as per the latest public data available, Nutanix is serving around 25000 customers across the globe.

Nutanix is based on Hyperconverged Infrastructure Technology which delivers services like virtualisation, software defined storage, software defined networking, security, database management and Kubernetes Management.

In this series of Blogs we’ll cover some of the key features and functionalities offered by Nutanix Cloud Platform. On a High level, Nutanix Cloud Platform Comprises of two components: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Platform. Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers Hybrid Multi-Cloud capabilities through a unified Control Plane. We’ll talk about some of the key components of Nutanix Cloud Platform and we’ll also cover some of the How-To Blogs on Nutanix Platform. Stay Tuned!

VMware Aria Operations – Backup & Export Configuration

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Posted on May 21, 2024 by Aman Sapra

In this blog we have covered the 2 methods of taking Backup of your VMware Aria Operations (vRealize Operations Manager) configuration.

VMware Aria Operations introduced a feature called Content Management in version 8.2 back in October 2020.

Content Management helps the Customers to Backup and Export their configuration of VMware Aria Operations which can be further used to restore the configuration like Dashboards, Views, Report Templates, Supremetrics and a lot more in case you run into issues with the deployment.

We have covered two methods of taking a Backup and Export of VMware Aria Operations Configuration – First one, using the Content Management Tab under Administration in VMware Aria Operations UI and Second one, using a Python Script which makes use of the native APIs of Aria Operations.

Python script which we have developed has been tested on Python 3.10.10 version and Aria Operations 8.10 version. This script can also be scheduled as a Scheduled Task to take periodic configuration backups.

Method -1: Content Management Tab under Administration in VMware Aria Operations UI

Method -2: Python Script which uses native APIs of Aria Operations

#!/usr/local/bin python3

import requests, json, urllib3, datetime, time, os, zipfile, shutil

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
from datetime import datetime


urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)

base_url = 'https://vrops80-weekly.cmbu.local/suite-api/api'
token_url = base_url + '/auth/token/acquire'
headers =  {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Accept":"application/json"}
body = {
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "VMware1!",
    "authSource": "local"
    }

token_api_response = requests.post(token_url, headers=headers, json=body, verify=False)

token_api_response = token_api_response.json()

vRealize_ops_token = token_api_response["token"]

print("vRealize Ops Token: " + vRealize_ops_token)

content_export_request_url = base_url + '/content/operations/export/'

headers = {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Accept":"application/json", "EncryptionPassword": "Aman@123456789", "Authorization": "vRealizeOpsToken " + vRealize_ops_token}

body = {
  "scope" : "CUSTOM",
  "contentTypes" : [ "DASHBOARDS", "VIEW_DEFINITIONS", "REPORT_DEFINITIONS", "REPORT_SCHEDULES", "CONFIG_FILES", "ALERT_DEFINITIONS", "SYMPTOM_DEFINITIONS", "RECOMMENDATION_DEFINITIONS",  "NOTIFICATION_RULES", "PAYLOAD_TEMPLATES", "POLICIES", "CUSTOM_GROUPS", "SUPER_METRICS", "COMPLIANCE_SCORECARDS", "AUTH_SOURCES", "USERS", "USER_GROUPS", "ROLES", "INTEGRATIONS", "HTTP_PROXIES", "OUTBOUND_SETTINGS", "COST_DRIVERS", "SDMP_CUSTOM_SERVICES", "SDMP_CUSTOM_APPLICATIONS", "DISCOVERY_RULES", "APP_DEF_ASSIGNMENTS", "CUSTOM_PROFILES", "GLOBAL_SETTINGS"  ],
  "Password" : "12345"
  }

content_export_response = requests.post(content_export_request_url, headers=headers, json=body, verify=False)

content_export_response = content_export_response.json()

print("Sleeping for 60 seconds")

time.sleep(60)

export_zip_url = base_url + '/content/operations/export/zip'

headers = {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Accept":"application/json", "Authorization": "vRealizeOpsToken " + vRealize_ops_token}

export_zip_response = requests.get(export_zip_url, headers=headers, verify=False)

current_datetime = datetime.now()
str_current_datetime = str(current_datetime)
file_name = "./vROpsContentBackup/" + str_current_datetime+".zip"
print(file_name)
with open(file_name, 'wb') as zipFile:
    zipFile.write(export_zip_response.content)

For the detailed process to Backup and Export VMware Aria Operations Configuration please watch our video:

I hope this blog was informative for you, stay tuned for our upcoming blogs. Happy Learning!!

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VMware Aria Operations – Backup & Export Configuration

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Posted on June 22, 2023 by Aman Sapra

In this blog we have covered the 2 methods of taking Backup of your VMware Aria Operations (vRealize Operations Manager) configuration.

VMware Aria Operations introduced a feature called Content Management in version 8.2 back in October 2020.

Method -1: Content Management Tab under Administration in VMware Aria Operations UI

Method -2: Python Script which uses native APIs of Aria Operations

#!/usr/local/bin python3
import requests, json, urllib3, datetime, time, os, zipfile, shutil
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
from datetime import datetime
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)
base_url = 'https://vrops80-weekly.cmbu.local/suite-api/api'
token_url = base_url + '/auth/token/acquire'
headers =  {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Accept":"application/json"}
body = {
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "VMware1!",
    "authSource": "local"
    }
token_api_response = requests.post(token_url, headers=headers, json=body, verify=False)
token_api_response = token_api_response.json()
vRealize_ops_token = token_api_response["token"]
print("vRealize Ops Token: " + vRealize_ops_token)
content_export_request_url = base_url + '/content/operations/export/'
headers = {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Accept":"application/json", "EncryptionPassword": "Aman@123456789", "Authorization": "vRealizeOpsToken " + vRealize_ops_token}
body = {
  "scope" : "CUSTOM",
  "contentTypes" : [ "DASHBOARDS", "VIEW_DEFINITIONS", "REPORT_DEFINITIONS", "REPORT_SCHEDULES", "CONFIG_FILES", "ALERT_DEFINITIONS", "SYMPTOM_DEFINITIONS", "RECOMMENDATION_DEFINITIONS",  "NOTIFICATION_RULES", "PAYLOAD_TEMPLATES", "POLICIES", "CUSTOM_GROUPS", "SUPER_METRICS", "COMPLIANCE_SCORECARDS", "AUTH_SOURCES", "USERS", "USER_GROUPS", "ROLES", "INTEGRATIONS", "HTTP_PROXIES", "OUTBOUND_SETTINGS", "COST_DRIVERS", "SDMP_CUSTOM_SERVICES", "SDMP_CUSTOM_APPLICATIONS", "DISCOVERY_RULES", "APP_DEF_ASSIGNMENTS", "CUSTOM_PROFILES", "GLOBAL_SETTINGS"  ],
  "Password" : "12345"
  }
content_export_response = requests.post(content_export_request_url, headers=headers, json=body, verify=False)
content_export_response = content_export_response.json()
print("Sleeping for 60 seconds")
time.sleep(60)
export_zip_url = base_url + '/content/operations/export/zip'
headers = {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Accept":"application/json", "Authorization": "vRealizeOpsToken " + vRealize_ops_token}
export_zip_response = requests.get(export_zip_url, headers=headers, verify=False)
current_datetime = datetime.now()
str_current_datetime = str(current_datetime)
file_name = "./vROpsContentBackup/" + str_current_datetime+".zip"
print(file_name)
with open(file_name, 'wb') as zipFile:
    zipFile.write(export_zip_response.content)

For the detailed process to Backup and Export VMware Aria Operations Configuration please watch our video:

I hope this blog was informative for you, stay tuned for our upcoming blogs. Happy Learning!!

#vmware #aria #operations #vROps #manager #content #management #public #private #hybrid #cloud #backup #export