🚀 Update – CEDeployer is now available! Good news! The manual process described in this article has now been largely automated. I recently launched CEDeployer (https://cedeployer.io), a tool that automates the deployment of Nutanix Community Edition using unattended installations. Instead of manually editing configuration files and repeating the same installation steps over and over again, […]

Within a default next next finish installation of a Nutanix cluster all physical interfaces are member of virtual switch 0 (vs0). First thing we do is remove the wrong interfaces from the vs0 and create a separate virtual switch (vs1) with the interfaces which are removed from vs0. Nutanix AHV (Hypervisor) and AOS (CVM) must […]

I got this question a lot during my trainings so hereby an explanation what “Approval Policies” are and howto configure them. Lets start with the easy question: What are approval policies? With APs we can protect recovery points from deletion. At lease three administrators (or more) must approve each deletion. This is for Recovery Points […]

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 […]

Each Veeam release is a massive set of new features and enhancements, and Veeam 13.1 is not an exception. For example, a “What’s New” document for Backup and Replication is 41 pages long. Here you can find “What’s New” for all Data Platform v13.1 products:Veeam Backup and Replication Veeam ONEVeeam Recovery Orchestrator I won’t share […]

It’s been a while since the last Nutanix release, and today Nutanix released new versions of the Nutanix Cloud Platform: AOS 7.6, AHV 11.2, and Prism Central 7.6. You will definitely love this release; just look at some of the release notes. AOS 7.6 (Release notes):1. Support for 307 TB Capacity in All-Flash NVMe systems;2. […]

The Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud exam has been updated to version 7.5, which means updating the prep guide to the latest document versions. This guide describes the methodology I am using in preparing for certification exams, and it could be used for other Nutanix exams as well. The Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) is the […]

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 […]