Nutanix Cluster Expansion on ESX

I needed to expand a cluster running Nutanix on ESX. There is a cluster expansion guide available from Nutanix which can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v6_7:wc-cluster-expand-wc-r.html But I want to show the steps involved doing this. 😉 After racking and stacking the new nodes make sure they are connected to switch…

Installing Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on VMware ESXi/vSphere

This blog post explains how to install a three-node Nutanix cluster nested in VMware ESXi/vSphere. Requirements include IP addresses, memory, CPUs, and storage. Detailed steps on creating virtual machines, installing Nutanix CE, and checking cluster status are provided. Final instructions cover accessing and configuring the cluster. For a 1-node cluster,…

Running Nutanix on OVHcloud

I had the opportunity the play with 2 Nutanix clusters on OVHcloud. In this blogpost I will explain how to set it up and how to do a migration from your on-premises environment to Nutanix on OVHcloud (Migrate to the cloud).

Change Nutanix Files Standard Share to Distributed Share

In this blog post I will show you how to change a Nutanix Files standard share to a distributed share. The differences between these types of shares is explaned here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LMXuCAO In my scenario I have configured FSLogix profiles on the standard share \\Files\FSlogix. This share holds arround 240GiB of…

Nutanix on ESX, howto setup the network stack

Offcourse I encourage customers to use AHV when using Nutanix, but sometimes customers are stuck using VMWare due to specific requirements or others reasons. Setting up Nutanix on AHV is pretty straightforward but on VMWare it is a bit different. In this blog I will show you how to setup…

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