When deploying a Nutanix cluster and looking into all configuration settings you have probably seen the “Reserve Rebuild Capacity” option. In this blogpost I will explain what it is and how it works. You can find this option in Prism Element –> Settings –> Rebuild Capacity Reservation. The default setting is that it is turned […]

In Prism Central 7.5 Nutanix has added “Guest Customization Profiles”. With this nice feature we can create unattended installs for Windows (current only Windows). In Windows we have two (2) types of unattended installations: Before we continue we need to know the requirements: (link) So to continue we first need to create a Windows template […]

Last weeks of the year already and I want to share some things with you readers. NTC 2026: First start with that I’m honored to become a Nutanix Technology Champion for the year 2026. This is my fifth consecutive year as an NTC and really is a reward for me showing that what I’m doing […]

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 […]

It’s no great surprise that my experience with Horizon (I’m of the age where I remember when it was View) in recent years has me rather excited to see the General Availability (GA) of support for Nutanix AHV. This has been a long time coming with Omnissa spinning out of VMware into its own entity […]

Today I was faced with a challenge, I have had an old CentOS 7 machine tucked well behind a secure enclave seeing out its days for a while now and sadly it has surpassed the life expectancy a few times so it was time to do something about it. The machine itself is a simple […]

Nutanix released new versions of its products, including AOS 7.5, AHV 11.0, and Prism Central – pc.7.5. This is a really large release, so click “Read More” to read about all the features that were added.

Previously I wrote about the newest Veeam Feature – Veeam Software Appliance – pre-built and pre-hardened image containing all the packages needed to run a fully functional backup server on Linux. In this article, we will look at the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance – an infrastructure component based on Veeam JeOS as well, which can hold … Continue reading “Using Veeam Infrastructure Appliance v13”

Recently I needed to update the NVIDIA GPU driver on my ESXi 8.0U3 hosts. Although it looks simple: upload the new driver to the depot, edit the image, and update hosts, I faced an unexpected issue during remediation of the cluster: Keeping in mind that the host is in the maintenance mode and there is … Continue reading “Quick Fix: Updating ESXi GPU driver with vLCM – files may still be in use”

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 […]

I don’t have to explain that creating regular backups for virtual machines (and other data sources) are critical to an organization. Are app consistent backups […]

Using recovery plans we are already able to define the startup sequence of virtual machines. In case of disaster we make sure the entities are […]