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Published: 16 May 2025

Written by Julien D.

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Categories: Events, Nutanix EN

After a rather short night due to the previous evening and jet lag, I set off for the Washington Convention Center for the launch of the first day of Nutanix .NEXT 2025.

NTCs! Gathering!

The first mission was to find a coffee, a large coffee, a very large coffee, because I already knew it was going to be a long day… Once I had my precious coffee, I headed straight to the Nutanix Technology Champions’ meeting point: the Community Lounge.

I had the pleasure of meeting Angelo, Jeroen, Brad, Jason, Avi, Kim, Bart, Angela, and many others there, with whom we were able to make sure that everyone had a good trip, discuss the 3 days to come, exchange our stickers specially designed for the occasion, which allowed us to pass the time until the time came for the Keynote…

WELCOME TO .NEXT 2025 !!!

Traditionally, the first .NEXT keynote is the one that reveals the majority of the publisher’s big announcements, and this edition was no exception!

To kick off the show, we were able to count on Mandi Dhaliwal who, after warmly thanking the event’s sponsors, quickly handed over to Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO of Nutanix.

After a short introduction in which he presented himself with his muscular starter pack boosted with AI, .NEXT 2025 was officially launched and the keynote could really get started with the following announcements and their dedicated articles:

Keynote #1: Closing Clap

Once all the technical announcements had been made, Rajiv Ramaswami handed the stage over to Mandy Dhaliwal, who, with undisguised pleasure, welcomed Chef José Andres. With his trademark sense of humor, he spoke to us about his personal vision of the values Nutanix embodies: Hungry, Humble, Honest, and with Heart.

Making a decision, whether good or bad, is always better than not making a decision at all – José Andres

He also told us about his work against world hunger through his organization “World Central Kitchen” and his various activities (writing books, opening restaurants, television shows, etc.).

Once the keynote was over, I rushed out to grab a quick meal before heading off to my certification…

Certification: NCM MCI 6.10 Beta, a Real Mess

Scheduled for 1:10 PM, nothing was ready! The examiners hadn’t anticipated the workstation preparation and had to do it urgently using USB drives…

I had to wait until 2:10 PM before being able to start the exam, and I wasn’t done with the surprises… Between the missing information in the statements, the information that was present but unclear, the various typos, the missing features in the interface (local account management on Prism Central, for example), and even the licensing issues… I think for a beta, it lived up to its name!

I won’t have the results until August, so stay tuned, but don’t expect much!

End of the Day

We ended the day in the exhibitor hall with drinks and some canapés at the OVHcloud booth. We then headed to the Nutanix EMEA evening, where we met partners and competitors in a rather pleasant setting.

The volume being quite high, we ended up changing locations to go to Jaleo, the restaurant of chef… José Andres! We were able to share tapas and drinks there before finally returning to our respective hotels to regain some strength for the 2nd day…

Published: 15 May 2025

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

An NC2 instance generally refers to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), a solution developed by Nutanix to deploy and run hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) in the public cloud while maintaining the same tools and practices as in a private data center.

To date, there are two main players:

AWS NC2, available and certified since 2020
NC2 on Azure, available and certified since 2022

During the keynote, the availability of Google Cloud NC2 instances was announced for the end of 2025, as well as seamless migration between an on-prem infrastructure and a Google Cloud infrastructure with Flow Virtual Networking..

That makes 3 US cloud providers, and no European ones… But my little finger tells me that OVHcloud is in the starting blocks to play in the big leagues… Stay Tuned!

Official Announcement : https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-nutanix-cloud-clusters-on-google-cloud-public-preview#

Another announcement concerning AWS this time, the availability of Cloud Native for AOS!

Nutanix Cloud Native AOS (CN-AOS) integrates Nutanix storage directly into Kubernetes, without a hypervisor. This facilitates the management, portability, and resilience of containerized applications across the cloud, edge, or on-premises. CN-AOS unifies data and application management, simplifies disaster recovery, and leverages the robust Nutanix AOS architecture, suitable for modern hybrid environments.

Official announcement: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-cloud-native-aos-brings-enterprise-storage-to-diverse-kubernetes-environments#

Finally, one last announcement: Nutanix is partnering with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, to offer Ubuntu Pro as an integrated option for its Kubernetes Platform (NKP). This collaboration aims to simplify deployment and strengthen the security of Kubernetes clusters, with features such as Livepatch (reboot-free kernel updates) and long-term support. Ubuntu Pro will be available with the NKP Pro and Ultimate editions. NKP remains flexible, also allowing the use of other Linux systems depending on customer needs.

Official Announcement: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-and-canonical-partner-to-simplify-kubernetes-deployments-with-nkp-and-ubuntu-pro#

Published: 15 May 2025

Written by Julien D.

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Agentic AI (or agentic artificial intelligence) refers to a new generation of AI systems capable of acting autonomously to achieve complex objectives, with little or no human intervention. Unlike generative AI, which simply produces content in response to queries, agentic AI proactively plans, makes decisions, and executes actions.

Agentic AI combines the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with advanced techniques such as probabilistic reasoning, reinforcement learning, and iterative planning. This allows these systems to analyze situations, formulate strategies, and act autonomously to solve complex problems.

Glenn Allison (Tractor Supply CO) joins Rajiv Ramaswami on stage to share his experience on how Nutanix helped them manage their business with artificial intelligence.

Nutanix’s strengths for Agentic AI:

Simplified deployment of AI models
Accelerated ROI
Operational readiness
Leading-edge performance
Unified platform
AI-enabled storage

Official announcement : https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-enterprise-ai-makes-agents

Future is now!

Published: 14 May 2025

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Rajiv took advantage of .NEXT to share some statistics regarding the Nutanix Move migration tool, including:

24,000 virtual machines migrated in 12 months for a financial products provider
12,000 virtual machines migrated in 9 months for a Fortune 500 insurance provider
100 virtual machines migrated in 2 weeks for the largest civil litigation firm in Florida

24,000 virtual machines in 12 months—that’s 2,000 VMs per month, 500 per week, and 100 per business day! That’s absolutely enormous! This impressive pace shows that the tool isn’t just designed for migrating small volumes; it’s also perfectly suited for large infrastructure migrations.

Secondly, he announced:

Support for Dell PowerFlex
In-place migration available by the end of 2025
Support for firewall rule migrations (NSX and others) to Flow Network Security starting this summer!

Nutanix Move is a powerful, high-performance, and easy-to-use tool that is constantly expanding with new features, facilitating the overall migration of an existing infrastructure to a Nutanix environment.

If you’d like to learn more about Nutanix Move, be sure to check out my comprehensive Nutanix Move guide.

Published: 14 May 2025

Written by Julien D.

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We already heard about this announcement at Tech Connect in San Jose last October: the imminent arrival of Nutanix Central On-Premise!

Nutanix Central is a unified cloud console that allows you to view and manage all Nutanix services deployed either on-premises or on Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), which until now were only available in the cloud.

This operating mode is problematic for anyone who doesn’t want to be dependent on the cloud or can’t, such as isolated environments.

This is particularly the case for defense services such as the US Navy, which came specifically to talk to us about their migration to Nutanix using Move, the management of their ships using Nutanix, and the backup of their infrastructure using the HYCU Backup solution.

In particular, it will be possible to manage the entire deployment, configuration and update of remote clusters from a single management interface!

Published: 13 May 2025

Written by Julien D.

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Categories: Events

Rajiv’s first topic was the modernization of our infrastructure, with a major announcement regarding our platform architecture. Until now, we were used to HCI nodes, but Nutanix decided to change that and open up new possibilities by announcing support for external storage mixed with compute nodes!

Leading the way: DELL PowerFlex, which is already available, supported, and as easy to integrate and use as HCI platforms.

Moody’s was invited on stage to share their customer experience with this announcement. As part of the Early Access program, they were among the first to migrate from VMware to Nutanix on existing Dell PowerFlex hardware!

Following on from this announcement, Rajiv also announced a partnership with storage solutions provider Pure Storage, with support for Flash Arrays in Early Access starting in summer 2025 and Global Access by the end of 2025!

Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo joined Rajiv to discuss this new partnership, the ease of integration, the power of this new combination, and the possibilities now available to customers.

Official Announcement : https://www.nutanix.com/press-releases/2025/nutanix-and-pure-storage-partner-to-deliver-greater-customer-choice

To conclude this segment dedicated to supporting external storage solutions, Rajiv presented “FlashStack,” a complete architecture based on:

CISCO Nexus switches
Pure Storage FlashArray / FlashBlade storage arrays
CISCO UCS Fabric Interconnect switches
CISCO UCS servers

This initial announcement may seem like a regression to the old 3-tier architecture models that differentiated network, compute, and storage, but that’s not the case. Until now, when you wanted to replace your infrastructure, for whatever reason, you were forced to discard your external storage arrays, which often required a significant investment and were not compatible with Nutanix.

Nutanix’s goal with this announcement is to enable customers looking for a high-performance and reliable hyperconverged system to reuse their existing hardware, thereby removing one of the barriers to adopting their hyperconverged system.

Official Documentation : Nutanix Cloud Platform with Dell PowerFlex Deployment Guide

Published: 13 May 2025

Written by Julien D.

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Categories: Events

Among the existing End-user Computing solutions on the market, we’re all familiar with Citrix, which has been available and supported by Nutanix for some time.

As a reminder, Citrix End-User Computing (EUC) solutions are a set of technologies that enable businesses to provide secure, centralized, and high-performance access to applications, virtual desktops, and data, from any device, anytime, and anywhere.

Multi-cluster support for VDI under Citrix was also announced: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/multi-cluster-citrix-vdi-support-on-nutanix-ahv-with-prism#

Nutanix took advantage of the first .NEXT Keynote to announce the arrival of Global Access support for the Omnissa Horizon solution by the end of 2025.

Omnissa’s End User Computing (EUC) solutions are part of VMware’s EUC division, which became an independent entity in 2024 following its acquisition by the investment fund KKR. Omnissa positions itself as a major player in providing secure, intelligent, and adaptable digital work platforms, focused on the user experience, particularly with its dedicated virtual desktop product: Horizon 8.

For those interested in testing it, I visited their booth and they informed me that the open beta should begin in early summer.

Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix Official Annoncement : https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-omnissa-horizon-on-nutanix-ahv#

Published: 2 May 2025

Written by Julien D.

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Categories: Nutanix AHV EN, Nutanix EN

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…

A Little Background

The need to delete a storage container arose when we decided to migrate the virtual machines to other containers. Why do we have to do this? As part of an On Demand Cross Cluster Live Migration, one of the prerequisites is to have identical names on the storage containers.

To do this, we migrated the vdisks using the CLI, a long and tedious process that I may detail in a future article.

Once all the vdisks were migrated, we still couldn’t delete the container.

Diagnosing the Problem

To begin, I listed all the containers on my cluster to identify the one I was concerned about:

nutanix@CVM:~$ ncli container list

Id : 00060f28-23f5-dbbb-7c17-7cc255a7f766::7
Uuid : ecc3d02d-57c0-4253-a5a4-a335aa3bdcd4
Name : default-container-15796345896744
Storage Pool Id : 00060f28-23f5-dbbb-7c17-7cc255a7f766::6
Storage Pool Uuid : 4fa56350-ece0-4932-8ec9-70669e241470
Free Space (Logical) : 31.16 TiB (34,265,616,109,568 bytes)
Used Space (Logical) : 90.79 GiB (97,483,378,688 bytes)
Allowed Max Capacity : 31.25 TiB (34,363,099,488,256 bytes)
Used by other Containers : 574.87 GiB (617,261,654,016 bytes)
Explicit Reservation : 0 bytes
Thick Provisioned : 0 bytes
Replication Factor : 2
Oplog Replication Factor : 2
NFS Whitelist Inherited : false
Container NFS Whitelist : 
VStore Name(s) : default-container-15796345896744
Random I/O Pri Order : SSD-MEM-NVMe, SSD-PCIe, SSD-SATA, DAS-SATA
Sequential I/O Pri Order : SSD-PCIe, SSD-SATA, SSD-MEM-NVMe, DAS-SATA
Compression : on
Compression Delay : 0 mins
Fingerprint On Write : off
On-Disk Dedup : off
Erasure Code : off
Software Encryption : off

Once my container is identified (default-container-15796345896744), I try to delete it in CLI with the following command line:

nutanix@CVM:~$ ncli ctr rm name=default-container-15796345896744

Error: Storage container default-container-15796345896744 contains VDisk(s) not marked for removal.

The message is quite clear: there are still VDisks in my container, which is completely blocking the deletion. As a reminder, I’ve migrated all the VDisks from my virtual machines, so there shouldn’t be anything left on them…

I check the contents of my VDisk with the following command (replace the container_id with the one corresponding to your container):

nutanix@CVM:~$ vdisk_config_printer -container_id=7 -skip_to_remove_vdisks

vdisk_id: 1247912
vdisk_name: "$NTNX$-$CURATOR$-$CHAINVDISK$-$0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2$7$"
vdisk_size: 0
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
mutability_state: kImmutable
snapshot_chain_id: 8053639
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
vdisk_uuid: "faa173c5-be0a-4502-9977-02d9c125b02e"
chain_id: "0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1724800080940533

vdisk_id: 22562934
vdisk_name: "NFS:2:0:2513"
vdisk_size: 4398046511104
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1741004981139322
vdisk_creator_loc: 4
vdisk_creator_loc: 789428
vdisk_creator_loc: 9451518309
nfs_file_name: "nutanix_guest_tools.iso"
may_be_parent: true
never_hosted: false
snapshot_draining: false
snapshot_chain_id: 22562935
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1741004981139322
oplog_type: kVDiskOplog
vdisk_snapshot_time_usecs: 1741004983089382
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
always_write_emap_extents: true
vdisk_uuid: "5b601b32-eaf5-4612-9bdf-f8ce3a24c96b"
chain_id: "ebd35e10-4917-476a-9cb7-8447478af99c"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1741004985848279

vdisk_id: 28693745
vdisk_name: "NFS:2:0:2703"
parent_vdisk_id: 9701970
vdisk_size: 10737418240
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1724235742966570
mutability_state: kImmutableSnapshot
closest_named_ancestor: "NFS:4611686018456079974"
avoid_vblock_copy_when_leaf: true
vdisk_creator_loc: 4
vdisk_creator_loc: 27341647
vdisk_creator_loc: 454849015
nfs_file_name: "a8893eb4-a9b8-4710-80c8-e69fb0093bb0"
may_be_parent: true
parent_nfs_file_name_hint: "a8893eb4-a9b8-4710-80c8-e69fb0093bb0"
scsi_name_identifier: "naa.6506b8dc3a35444155c2731c8d7a8b94"
never_hosted: false
snapshot_draining: false
parent_draining: false
clone_parent_draining: false
snapshot_chain_id: 8053639
has_complete_data: true
clone_source_vdisk_id: 7790073
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1745309380225031
originating_vdisk_snapshot_time_usecs: 1724235742966570
oplog_type: kVDiskOplog
vdisk_snapshot_time_usecs: 1745310092381733
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
always_write_emap_extents: true
vdisk_uuid: "c1b33a68-dd3e-4afc-917e-67f8c257f40f"
chain_id: "0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2"
parent_chain_id: "af907cc8-795b-4382-907c-4b318529bfcb"
vdisk_snapshot_uuid: "bdbf64db-51ad-4310-86cc-ce68107c20f0"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1745310094964928

vdisk_id: 7783219
vdisk_name: "NFS:2:0:472"
vdisk_size: 4398046511104
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1723639427516394
vdisk_creator_loc: 3
vdisk_creator_loc: 1247802
vdisk_creator_loc: 675287599
nfs_file_name: "pc.2022.6.0.10-pc-boot.qcow2"
never_hosted: false
snapshot_chain_id: 7783220
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1723639427516394
oplog_type: kVDiskOplog
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
always_write_emap_extents: true
vdisk_uuid: "db1edf28-7241-451a-b74a-e2f6b68ef394"
chain_id: "874ae2f3-1f2e-4d90-87f3-a755b14c374c"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1723639427524005

vdisk_id: 7783222
vdisk_name: "NFS:2:0:473"
vdisk_size: 4398046511104
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1723639427831077
vdisk_creator_loc: 3
vdisk_creator_loc: 1247802
vdisk_creator_loc: 675288112
nfs_file_name: "pc.2022.6.0.10-pc-home.qcow2"
never_hosted: false
snapshot_chain_id: 7783223
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1723639427831077
oplog_type: kVDiskOplog
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
always_write_emap_extents: true
vdisk_uuid: "1d4c82bc-01b2-44da-af1c-fbedda5d3dc2"
chain_id: "83600772-9e50-4050-9957-37da1dac220f"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1723639427839142

vdisk_id: 7783355
vdisk_name: "NFS:2:0:474"
vdisk_size: 4398046511104
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1723639463452092
vdisk_creator_loc: 3
vdisk_creator_loc: 1247802
vdisk_creator_loc: 675381384
nfs_file_name: "pc.2022.6.0.10-pc-boot.img"
may_be_parent: true
never_hosted: false
snapshot_chain_id: 7783356
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1723639463452092
oplog_type: kVDiskOplog
vdisk_snapshot_time_usecs: 1723639536592896
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
always_write_emap_extents: true
vdisk_uuid: "cbec4f1c-06e5-400e-bb4b-c71df4cd7e38"
chain_id: "d42ab524-a749-4a51-a1a3-3bf225c0fc12"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1723639536600475

vdisk_id: 7783363
vdisk_name: "NFS:2:0:475"
vdisk_size: 4398046511104
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1723639463571411
vdisk_creator_loc: 3
vdisk_creator_loc: 1247802
vdisk_creator_loc: 675381960
nfs_file_name: "pc.2022.6.0.10-pc-home.img"
may_be_parent: true
never_hosted: false
snapshot_draining: false
snapshot_chain_id: 7783364
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1723639463571411
oplog_type: kVDiskOplog
vdisk_snapshot_time_usecs: 1723639536653959
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
always_write_emap_extents: true
vdisk_uuid: "358783f7-b35d-42ae-82cc-24a8dc0bf084"
chain_id: "0805ab92-e816-4fe6-8851-7ffa9af75188"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1723639548309692

This command allows me to display all files that are not marked “for deletion.” These are:

Old snapshots whose virtual machines no longer exist or are no longer linked
Nutanix Guest Tools installation ISOs
Old Prism Central update files

Now that I know where the problem is coming from, it’s time to fix it.er…

Deleting Files

To delete files, edit them one by one with the following command:

edit_vdisk_config --vdisk_id=vdisk_id --editor=vim

The bold “vdisk_id” in the command must be replaced with the vdisk_id of each file returned by the “vdisk_config_printer -container_id=7 -skip_to_remove_vdisks” command, for example:

vdisk_id: 1247912
vdisk_name: "$NTNX$-$CURATOR$-$CHAINVDISK$-$0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2$7$"
vdisk_size: 0
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
mutability_state: kImmutable
snapshot_chain_id: 8053639
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
vdisk_uuid: "faa173c5-be0a-4502-9977-02d9c125b02e"
chain_id: "0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1724800080940533

Will give the following command:

edit_vdisk_config --vdisk_id=1247912 --editor=vim

This opens the relevant file:

vdisk_id: 1247912
vdisk_name: "$NTNX$-$CURATOR$-$CHAINVDISK$-$0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2$7$"
vdisk_size: 0
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
mutability_state: kImmutable
snapshot_chain_id: 8053639
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
vdisk_uuid: "faa173c5-be0a-4502-9977-02d9c125b02e"
chain_id: "0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1724800080940533

You then need to add “to_remove: true” at the very end of the file and save it:

vdisk_id: 1247912
vdisk_name: "$NTNX$-$CURATOR$-$CHAINVDISK$-$0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2$7$"
vdisk_size: 0
container_id: 7
creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
mutability_state: kImmutable
snapshot_chain_id: 8053639
vdisk_creation_time_usecs: 1724796346611475
last_updated_pithos_version: kChainIdKey
vdisk_uuid: "faa173c5-be0a-4502-9977-02d9c125b02e"
chain_id: "0630848d-af0a-440b-9bf2-14ed432105c2"
last_modification_time_usecs: 1724800080940533
to_remove: true

Repeat the operation with all the files until the “vdisk_config_printer -container_id=7 -skip_to_remove_vdisks” command no longer displays anything.

Run the container removal command:

nutanix@CVM:~$ ncli ctr rm name=default-container-15796345896744

Error: Storage container default-container-15796345896744 contains small NFS files

Another mistake! And yes, there are still small files lying around and you need to force delete them:

nutanix@CVM:~$ ncli ctr rm id=7 ignore-small-files=true

Storage container deleted successfully

This operation is quite long and tedious to apply, but it will allow you to delete a stubborn storage container. If after these manipulations the deletion of the storage container is still impossible, it is because there are still files that have not been moved / migrated.

Published: 24 April 2025

Written by Julien D.

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Categories: Nutanix AHV EN, Nutanix EN

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

What are Nutanix Guest Tools?

NGT is a set of software features installed on a virtual machine (VM) and a Nutanix CVM. A Nutanix Guest Agent publishes information about the virtual machine to the Nutanix cluster, such as the guest operating system type, the virtual machine’s mobility status, and the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). The Nutanix Guest Agent is installed on both Windows and Linux guest virtual machines.

Installing Nutanix Guest Tools

Connect to your Nutanix cluster on Prism Central, go to the list of virtual machines, right-click on the virtual machine on which you want to install NGTs, and click “Install NGT”:

On the next screen, in my case no need to change anything, click on “Confirm and Enter Password”:

Don’t touch anything on this screen, just click “Skip and Mount” at the bottom left:

The ISO is mounted, now we move on to the command lines!

Installing Nutanix Guest Tools (e.g., Rocky Linux)

Here are the commands to run on the virtual machine to install Nutanix Guest Tools:

System Update:

sudo dnf update && sudo dnf upgrade

Installing Python (if not present on the machine):

sudo dnf install python3

Verifying the reader ID:

blkid -L NUTANIX_TOOLS

Command print:

/dev/sr0

Mounting ISO:

sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt

NGT Installation:

systemd-run --unit=ngt_guest_agent_upgrade --slice=upgrade_ngt sh /mnt/installer/linux/ngt_rpm_installer/ngt_install_upgrade.sh

Checking the installation from the command line:

[root@XXXXXXXXXX administrateur]# yum list installed | grep 'nutanix-guest-agent'
nutanix-guest-agent.x86_64 4.1.2-1 @nutanix-ngt-20250423153748

Checking the installation on Prism Central:

Unmounting ISO:

umount /dev/sr0

That’s it ! Nutanix Guest Tools are installed !

Published: 4 April 2025

Written by Julien D.

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Categories: Backup EN, HYCU EN, Nutanix AHV EN, Nutanix EN

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.

In total, this represents: