!!! Always make sure you have a working backup when performing upgrades !!! The last year we had lots of new version in the Nutanix HCI ecosystem. Community Edition (CE) is built on the production version but had some issues with the latest versions. In this blog post I will show you to where you […]

To install Nutanix Community Edition on a machine which only has 2 drives we always suggested to install AHV on a USB drive. In this blogpost I will describe how to install CE on a machine with 2 disks in total. So 1 disk will be the AHV disk and the other the CVM. So […]

In this small quick blogpost I will show you how-to create an API Key to using against Prism Central. Login into Prism Central and navigate to Admin Center –> IAM –> Identities –> Service Accounts –> Add Service Account Now fill in all required information: Make sure you create a user which is easy to […]

Back in 2024 Nutanix Technology Champions were invited to Nutanix HQ in San Jose for 2 days of behind the scenes access, and discussions with some of the brightest minds in Nutanix. We also enjoyed social time together as a group including pinball and pizza (and a few cocktails) downtown. Well …. it’s back for […]

Whilst I am a huge advocate for being as ‘self sustainable’ as possible when it comes to working with partners or vendors – sometimes you can’t solve something on your own and you do need to ask their technical support folks for a hand. When that does happens though, be smart, do a bit of […]

On Wednesday 6th May I was fortunate to join a group of likeminded folks from the channel for a day in London hosted by Nutanix featuring guest speakers from Omnissa and Parallels. Not quite Palm Springs for NerdioCon but it was still sunny…just. A hats off and thank you to Stu Bland and Ludmilla Dias […]

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the process of managing Nutanix backups using Veeam 13.1 via the Web UI of the Veeam Software Appliance. In this article, we will walk through the following steps:

CAUTION: This is not for production use! Use this method for home labs only. During deploying VVF 9 in my home lab, I’ve faced an issue with the unsupported CPU. Although there was no problem with ESXi 8, during ESXi 9.1 installation, I received an error: Luckily there is a solution. Keep in mind that […]

Nutanix announced that the Nutanix Certified Master – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) certification is updated to version 7.5, and the exam is now in the beta phase. For those who don’t know, this is a hands-on exam in a real-lab environment and not a test. You can find the blueprint guide here. As usual, a beta […]

Real-World HCI Testing with Nutanix X-Ray 7.0 Most infrastructure benchmarks lie to you — not deliberately, but by design. They measure peak IOPS under perfect […]

Right now, we are in the vacuum between the morning sessions and the first keynote of the event. With 5000 attendees, .NEXT is a real […]

Today, the event has the kick-off in McCormick Place in the beautiful city of Chicago. The coming three days, we will be overwhelmed by Nutanix […]