If you've read my previous article detailing the architecture and technical stack I chose to deploy OpenClaw, today we're getting practical! I'm going to show you, step by step, how to deploy your own instance on a freshly installed Ubuntu virtual machine.

I wondered how I could connect artificial intelligence closer to my VMs. With this in mind, I got my hands on OpenClaw. Honestly, it was a bit of an obstacle course at the start.

With the future (and inevitable) blocking of SSH access on Prism Element and Prism Central, I had no choice: I had to seriously start learning the APIs...

I often get questions about this: how do you assign a physical graphics card to a VM in a simple and performant way? Today, I suggest we look together at how to deploy an NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPU on an Ubuntu Server 24.04 VM hosted on Nutanix AHV, using "Passthrough" mode.

I will never forget the day the reality of hyperconvergence hit me. We were in the middle of an infrastructure migration. On one side, we had two full 42U racks from the 3-tier era, packed with servers and storage arrays. On the other side, to replace them, we only needed... 6U.

I've seen too many "cowboys" pull the plug or perform a brutal "Shutdown" via IPMI, thinking data resiliency would handle the rest. Spoiler alert: this often ends with Level 3 Nutanix support. This guide is my lifeline to ensure my cluster restarts without issues.

In this feedback report, I’ll share my experience with Nutanix Centreon monitoring and explain why you should stop monitoring your cluster solely through its Virtual IP (VIP) and switch to a granular node-by-node strategy.

While Hyperconvergence (HCI) and Public Cloud seem to be the norm today, it is crucial to understand that 3-Tier was the backbone of enterprise IT for nearly 20 years. To understand this architecture is to understand where we come from, and why we sought to change it.

Nutanix has just released a trio of major updates into the wild: AOS 7.5, AHV 11.0, and Prism Central 7.5. Here's my unfiltered technical analysis of what awaits you.

In this new blog post, we will see all the main Nutanix AHV CLI commands that allow you to perform certain checks on your virtual machines, using command lines.

Here is an article that describes how to connect a PA-VM gateway to the OVHcloud VRACK provided with your Nutanix cluster in order to connect it to the internet.

NTC 2026 registrations are open !

Behind this musical reference lies the annual event organized by Nutanix France: Nutanix .NEXT on Tour!

In this article, I share my complete feedback on the complete reinstallation of a Nutanix cluster at OVHcloud.

In this new article, we will discuss managing storage containers via CLI commands on your Nutanix clusters...

In this new blog post, we'll now see how CLI commands can help us create or modify networks in our Nutanix cluster…

In this article, I offer a summary of the best commands for performing all network configuration checks on a Nutanix cluster, whether at the cluster, host, CVM, or virtual machine level.

The 1.2.5 version of VirtIO is available, and here are the new features and bug fixes!

I've been wanting to try it for a while but I didn't have the hardware at my disposal... Anyway, I made a Nutanix Foundation on node from a Steamdeck.

Whether you're selling the cluster to a third party or repurposing it for another purpose, sometimes you need to destroy a Nutanix cluster. Here's how to do it…

This is one of the operations that I recommend performing on an OVHcloud cluster just after delivery: replacing the pre-deployed gateway that will allow your cluster to go out onto the internet.

Nutanix X-Ray is a testing and benchmarking tool designed by Nutanix to evaluate the performance and resilience of hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI).

From May 7th to 9th, 2025, I was invited as a Nutanix Technology Champion to the Nutanix .NEXT event in Washington DC and was awarded for my work on the blog...

I worked with a client who has a large number of fairly old nodes in production at their remote sites. Unfortunately, they are facing a problem performing AOS and AHV installations on them because the hardware is not officially supported by Nutanix.

In this new blog post, I'll explain how to monitor your Nutanix cluster using Centreon using SNMP v3.

In this blog post, I'll explain how to monitor your Nutanix cluster on Centreon using SNMP v2c.

I invite you to discover the Nutanix offerings on OVHcloud and how they can help transform business infrastructures.

Here's a recap of my first day at .NEXT 2025, which took place in Washington DC from May 7-9, 2025!

It couldn't be a keynote without mentioning the NC2-validated cloud providers (Nutanix Cloud Clusters) and making an announcement!

While working on one of our clients' clusters, I encountered a major problem: the impossibility of deleting a storage container that had previously been emptied of its contents…

Here is a quick procedure to install Nutanix Guest Tools manually on your Linux virtual machines (Rocky Linux, RHEL, CentOS…) using the command line.

The world of hybrid computing and multicloud is about to experience a major moment with the Nutanix .NEXT 2025 event, which will take place from May 7 to 9 in Washington DC.

It's finally complete! After about thirty hours spent installing, configuring, and testing a lab environment, and writing each article, my ultimate guide to backing up a Nutanix cluster using the HYCU backup solution is finally complete

This is a problem many people encounter when first deploying a virtual machine on Microsoft Windows: storage detection. I'll show you how to deploy a Windows virtual machine on Nutanix AHV.

As I mentioned in my article about updating the HYCU controller, you can't upgrade from version 4.7.0 to 5.1.0, for example. To reach the latest version, you'll have to follow upgrade paths…

I accidentally deleted one of the virtual machines in my cluster. Luckily, I can restore it with HYCU!

Everything has been configured to allow the backup of the virtual machines in our cluster, we will now see how to protect the virtual machines using the backup policies that we have just created.

Now that our HYCU controller is configured and up to date, we now need to protect our virtual machines…

HYCU being a backup software monitored and supported by the publisher, updates will have to be installed regularly.

Now that the Nutanix cluster is added to the HYCU software, we need to add the backup target to which the files will be sent.

After deploying the HYCU controller and initializing it, you need to add your Nutanix cluster as a source of virtual machines to backup.

In the previous blog post, I created and started the HYCU virtual machine. Now let's move on to the initial configuration of the Backup Controller.

Today, I will present you the method of deploying the HYCU backup solution on my Nutanix AHV cluster.

In my previous article, I introduced you to the HYCU backup solution. I will now describe my deployment environment and explain how to retrieve the solution's installation sources.

HYCU stands out as a backup solution specifically designed for hyperconverged environments, particularly Nutanix.

I had already shown you that you can manage a cluster from the Steamdeck and I wanted to push the experience a little further…

In order to secure intra-cluster flows in an environment where network segmentation is non-existent, it is sometimes necessary to configure the backplane network to isolate them from production flows.

Sometimes and for various reasons, it is necessary to configure the VLAN directly at the level of our Nutanix cluster, in particular to ensure network segmentation.

Easter eggs are hidden in various media elements, including movies, video games, software, and even websites, and Nutanix is ​​no exception.

A question that comes up regularly: "what are the default passwords on my cluster?"