In this blogpost I will show you how to deploy Nutanix Central on-premises. This will allow you to manage multiple Prism Central’s from one single pane of glass. Nutanix Central (v1.7.1) release notes can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Release-Notes-Nutanix-Central-Onprem-v1_7_1:Release-Notes-Nutanix-Central-Onprem-v1_7_1 The complete admin guide can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/list?type=software&filterKey=software&filterVal=Nutanix%20Central Prism Central Requirements are: So that will cover […]

For work I do travel a lot to customers but I do also work a lot from home. This means I need to have a powerful laptop to be able to run: The need to run Community Edition (I use this to showcase some features within the Nutanix stack) is becoming less important as I […]

Update 23-01-2026: Cleanup process updated and some typo’s corrected.Update 20-01-2026: Added a correct, working, update mechanism. 😉 In this blogpost I will describe how to connect Omnissa Horizon against a Nutanix AHV cluster and how to setup the golden image. We are going for an RDS setup because we can 😉 The steps involved are: […]

Frequently I’m asked why I always recommend building and testing a defensive design, one that has a chance of surviving first contact. The answer is simple, I’ve been burnt, and seen others burned by design decisions that made sense at the time but didn’t stand the test of time or the ‘what if?’ test. A […]

A totally shameless plug to join some of us talking NKP, the cloudy future of applications, and how us traditional IT infrastructure people have had to learn some new tricks to innovate and support our developer communities. Taming Cloud Chaos: The Nutanix Champions Perspective

It all started a week or so ago with the having to restart my Windows workstation each morning before my day started because it was painfully laggy, and showing read latency on the boot disk that only seemed to ease up after a reboot, for a short while. Nothing fun in resource monitor to show […]

Veeam released a new version of the Backup & Replication product with the number 13.0.1.2067 addressing some critical security issues. You can find more info in the following KB 4831. CVE-2026-21669, CVSS v3.1 Score: 9.9 – A vulnerability allowing an authenticated domain user to perform remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server. Affects Windows-based […]

This year I took the NVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI Infrastructure exam, and in the post, I want to share materials I used for my preparation. For those who do not know, this certification validates a candidate’s ability to deploy, configure, and validate advanced NVIDIA AI infrastructure, and I think this is right where we need to […]

Recently I’ve been asked to create a dashboard in Grafana, displaying the power usage of the Smart PDU Sentry3. Although most of the modern systems have a metric page or a written exporter, which can be simply gathered by Prometheus, most of the old systems or devices are still answering SNMP queries and do not […]

In an earlier post, I described and showed how to deploy Nutanix Files within a Prism Central instance. This post ended with a promise to […]

This blogpost will show you how to install Nutanix Files using Prism Central. But before we are going to install Nutanix Files, let’s first look […]

As we step into a new year, I want to take a moment to thank you for being part of this journey. Whether you’ve been […]